South Dakota State Library: Digital Collections

- Razing of Old Fort Dakota Ended Military Era in City
- South Dakota -- History; Fort Dakota (S.D.); Sioux Falls (S.D.)
- 80 years ago the barracks of Fort Dakota were raized to make room for permanent housing. The destruction of those barracks removed the last reminder of the Indian Wars in Sioux Falls.
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- Tablet Will Mark Site of Fort Dakota
- Fort Dakota (S.D.); Daughters of the American Revolution. Mary Chilton Chapter
- A bronze plaque will be placed on the Hollywood theatre marking the site of the old Fort Dakota barracks.
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- Early South Dakota Fort
- Fort Brule (S.D.); United States. Army. Dakota Territory Cavalry; Iowa Infantry Volunteers, 6th Regiment (1861-1865); South Dakota -- History
- A red granite monument one-half mile west of Richland marks the location of Fort Brule.
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- Soldiers And Early Settlers Built Union County Stockade For Protection From Indians
- Fort Brule (S.D.); Stoddard, K.B.; Gore, Mahlon; LaMour, Edward; Watson, Thomas; Fletcher, Julius; South Dakota -- History
- A Turner County pioneer has constructed a miniature model of Fort Brule. The article also provides a history of the fort.
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- Recording Badlands Fossils Painstaking Job
- Badlands South Dakota; South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. Museum of Geology; Green, Morton; Macdonald, Dr. J.R.; Fossils -- Collection and preservation -- South Dakota
- An article explaining the painstaking detail which goes into collecting fossils in the Badlands for transporting them to a museum.
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- Earth is Rebounding at Oahe Dam
- Oahe Dam (S.D.), Missouri River., Stilling basins., Hayes, Col. Thomas H.
- An explanation of the geological phenomenon taking place in the stilling basin at the Oahe Dam
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- South Dakota conservation digest, May-June 2012
- Wildlife conservation -- South Dakota -- Periodicals; Conservation of natural resources -- South Dakota -- Periodicals
- Bimonthly publication, plus one special edition, by the South Dakota Department of Game, Fish and Parks.
- SD State Agencies
- Ft. Sisseton To Open as State Park
- Fort Sisseton (S.D.); Fort Wadsworth (S.D.); Fillmore, Walt; South Dakota. Dept. of Game, Fish, and Parks. Division of Forestry
- Fort Sisseton becomes a state park on July 1, 1959.
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- Lincoln County Gravel Pits Yield Fossils from Pre-Glacial Animals
- Over, William H. (William Henry), 1866-1956; Lincoln County (S.D.); Fossils -- Collection and preservation -- South Dakota
- Gravel pits in Lincoln County SD, opened up by WPA projects, are yielding fossil remains of pre-glacial animals.
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- Women Set Sights On New Library At State Capitol
- South Dakota State Library; South Dakota State Library Commission; General Federation of Women’s Clubs of South Dakota; South Dakota. Governor (1955-1959: Foss); Darling, Dorette; Reecy, Mrs. Lester; Tillman, Mrs. Harold
- South Dakota women’s groups are hoping to get a $750,000 appropriation for a new state library building. The article also describes the lack of space in the 1957 State Library.
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- Teletype Hastens Library Functions
- South Dakota State Library; South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; South Dakota State University; University of South Dakota
- Teletype was installed at the State Library. Requests can be sent to the library from other teletypes located a state universities.
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- Elements Take Toll of Church Built by Soldiers of Indian War
- Fort Randall (S.D.); Randall, Daniel; Howard, Mickey; Manbeck, Jeff
- The article provides a short history of Fort Randall including the building of a church in 1872.
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- Troops Located in Black Hills Six Decades Ago
- Fort Meade (S.D.); United States. Army. Cavalry, 4th; United States. Army. Cavalry, 8th; Rodgers, Robert C.; United States. Army. Cavalry, 4th. Black Horse Troop; South Dakota -- History
- The Fourth cavalry is now quartered at Fort Meade. The article also provides a short history of Fort Meade.
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- University Geologists find prehistoric reptile fossil
- Yankton (S.D.); Clidastes; Stevenson, Robert E.; Marindahl Dam
- The geology club of the University of South Dakota uncovered fossils of a large vertebrate reptile near Marindahl Dam near Yankton, S.D.
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- Highways aid development of Badlands
- Badlands South Dakota; Tourism -- South Dakota; Roads -- Design and construction -- South Dakota; Millard, B.H.
- The value of the Badlands of S.D., in tourism, will be greatly enhanced with the development of highways in the proposed national monument.
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- Everything About Pierre Oahe Dam is Big
- Oahe Dam (S.D.)
- Three (3) photographs of the construction of the Oahe Dam.
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