South Dakota State Library: Digital Collections

- Oahe Artifacts Date Back to 1300 A.D.
- Fossils -- South Dakota; Native American culture; Oahe Dam (S.D.); Archaeology -- South Dakota -- History; Sioux Nation -- History.
- Archaeologists and historians working with the Smithsonian Institution have completed 3 ½ months of excavating Indian villages just below thh Oahe Dam site. Initial reports indicate that these sites were used from 1300 A.D. to the middle and late...
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- Historians Race With Oahe Dam Progress To Record Story of Area
- Oahe Dam (S.D.); Archaeology -- South Dakota -- History; South Dakota -- History
- Archaeologists and historians are racing time to record the story of the area of South Dakota before flooding of the Oahe Dam covers this land in a few years.
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- New Era of S.D. Progress starts today at Oahe Event: Pick – Case speak on Program at newest damsite
- Oahe Dam (S.D.); Dam construction -- South Dakota -- 1940-1950; Case, Francis H. (Francis Higbee), 1896-1962.; Pick, General Lewis A.; Prentiss, Col. L.W.; Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Program;
- Groundbreaking ceremonies held at Oahe damsite, the largest construction job ever undertaken in South Dakota .
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- S.D. Irrigation Association is Organized
- Irrigation projects -- South Dakota; Irrigation -- South Dakota; South Dakota Irrigation Association; Oahe Dam (S.D.)
- 150 irrigators and interested persons gathered to form the S.D. Irrigation Association.
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- Famous South Dakota Lands Go Into Oahe Reservoir
- Oahe Dam (S.D.); Missouri River Basin Project; Dams – South Dakota; Philip, Scotty, 1858-1911; Wyman, Judge A. Lee; United States. Attorney (South Dakota); Flynn, Leo P.
- Condemnation proceedings have started against 5770 acres for the development of the Oahe Reservoir. Condemned lands include part of Scotty Philip’s buffalo pasture.
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- Greetings, Mr. President – Pierre and South Dakota Welcome You
- Oahe Dam (S.D.); Missouri River Basin Project; Dams – South Dakota; Reservoirs -- South Dakota; Pierre (S.D.); United States. Army. Corps of Engineers; Flood control--Law and legislation--United States; Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald),...
- This special edition of The Pierre State News contains three articles and photographs concerning President Kennedy’s visit to the Oahe Dam.
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- Outline Most Likelly Irrigable Areas
- Oahe Dam (S.D.); United State. Bureau of Reclamation. Missouri River Region.; Irrigation -- South Dakota
- Outline of central South Dakota most likely irrigable areas.
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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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- G-Men Arrive to Check Area for Kennedy Trip; Jet-Age White House Visits in Pierre as Reporter Tours President’s Craft
- Oahe Dam (S.D.); Air Force One (Presidential aircraft); Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963; Secret Service (U.S.)
- 2 articles from the Pierre Capital Journal - Oahe1962-08-07#1 is about the preparations made for President John F. Kennedy to attend the Oahe Dam dedication ceremonies. In Oahe1962-08-07#2, a journalist tours Air Force One.
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- Load-testing under way for 1st generator
- Oahe Dam (S.D.); U. S. Army Corps of Engineers; Woodbury, Col. Harry G.; Hydroelectric power plants -- South Dakota
- The first of seven generators being load-tested at the Oahe Dam.
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- Oahe Dam Job Awarded
- Oahe Dam (S.D.); Missouri River Basin Project (U.S.); Dams-South Dakota; Hammond, Colonel D.G.; Guy F. Atkinson Company, South San Francisco (Calif.); Ostrander Construction Company, Portland (Or.)
- The contract for construction of the powerhouse superstructure and surge tank bases of the Oahe Dam was awarded to the Guy F. Atkinson Company, South San Francisco, and the Ostrander Construction Company, Portland.
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- ‘Eunik,’ World’s Largest Truck, To Get Test Run At Oahe Dam
- Oahe Dam (S.D.); Missouri River Basin Project (U.S.); Dams – South Dakota; United States. Army. Corps of Engineers.; Western Contracting Corporation, Sioux City (Ia.); Everist, Hubert H.; Collins, Carl (Rip); Sibert, John W.
- A giant earth mover, nicknamed “Eunik”, will be given test runs at the Oahe Dam. Eunik weighs 78 ½ tons and is rated to haul 80 cubic yards of earth.
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- Faulty Shale Changes Plans On Pierre Dam
- Oahe Dam (S.D.); Missouri River Basin Project (U.S.); Dams--South Dakota; United States. Army. Corps of Engineers.; Soils--South Dakota; Hayes, Thomas J., Colonel; Casagrand, Arthur; Harper, S.O.; Kramer, Hans, Brigadier General; Carlson, Roy;...
- To avoid encountering faulty Oacoma shale, the power tunnels will be straightened, shortened and dug to a greater depth. The intake control works will now be at the intake portal and the power house will be moved several hundred feet downstream.
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- Contractors Move Hill As Work Gets Underway On Giant Oahe Dam
- Oahe Dam (S.D.); Missouri River Basin Project (U.S.); Dams -- South Dakota; Fort Randall Dam (S.D.); United States. Army. Corps of Engineers.; Smithsonian Institution; Guy James Company, Oklahoma City (Okla.); Collins & Campbell, Fargo (N.D.)
- In the construction of the Oahe Dam, a hill encompassing six million cubic yards of dirt is being moved from the west side of the river to the river bottom. This dirt will be used as part of the base for the 242 foot high barrier that will span...
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- Battle Lines are drawn at Oahe Dam
- Oahe Dam (S.D.); U. S. Army Corps of Engineers; Missouri River; Dam construction -- South Dakota -- 1950-1960
- Photo and details of plan “pitting man against the Missouri River” from the river before the diversion to the concluding phase of the closure.
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- First Electricity From Pierre’s Oahe Dam Will Go to Work in Upper Midwest in ‘62
- Oahe Dam (S. D.); Hydroelectric power plants -- South Dakota; Missouri River Basin Project: Dams – South Dakota; Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Program; Flood control -- South Dakota
- In the summer of ’62 the upper Midwest will receive the first electricity from the 85,0000 kilowatt generating unit of the Oahe Dam.
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- Oahe Measure Introduced in South Dakota Senate
- Oahe Dam (S.D.); Irrigation -- South Dakota; Roesler, Sen. A.D.; South Dakota. Natural Resources Commission; South Dakota. Legislature. Legislative Research Council; Houck, Sen. L.R.; Ferguson, Sen. Frank
- A measure was introduced into the South Dakota Senate to halt the Oahe-James irrigation unit appropriations until studies of feasibility and desirability are completed.
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- Oahe Dam Closure Will Be Big Engineering Task
- Oahe Dam (S.D.), Dam construction -- South Dakota -- 1950-1960, Missouri River., Hammond, Col. David G.,
- Col. David G. Hammond speaks to the Pierre Lions Club about Oahe Dam closure.
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- Irrigation of S.D. Area Has Good Outlook
- Irrigation -- South Dakota; Geological Survey of South Dakota; Jones, J.R.; Oahe Dam (S.D.)
- A map of James River Valley shows favorable geological structure for irrigation.
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- Engineers Begin Oahe Tunnel
- Oahe Dam (S.D.); Missouri River Basin Project (U.S.); Melsha, Joe
- A tunnel will be built to determine the condition of the shale beds as part of the preconstruction activities on the Oahe dam.
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