South Dakota State Library: Digital Collections

- State office project lags
- South Dakota State Library; Andrews, Gerald; South Dakota. Office of Executive Management. Bureau of Administration; Hilger’s Gulch (Pierre, S.D.)
- The article discusses the construction of the new state library building.
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- Mammoth Oahe Dam Now Over 77 Per Cent Complete
- Dam construction -- South Dakota -- 1950-1960; Oahe Dam (S.D.); Siebert, John W., Jr.; Woodbury, Col. Harry G.; United States. Army. Corps of Engineers
- Full page of photos of the service gate hoist, power intake towers, outlet works intake towers, outlet works control structure, aerial view of progress on the Oahe Dam, powerhouse and surge tanks, and stilling basin. Oahe project data and article...
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- The Daily Plainsman - August 6, 1968 - One full page
- Irrigation projects -- South Dakota; Oahe Dam (S.D.); Dam construction -- South Dakota -- 1940-1950; Dam construction -- South Dakota -- 1950-1960; Boe, Nils A. (Nils Andreas), 1913-1992; Berry, Ellis Yarnal, 1902-1999; McGovern, George S. (George...
- One full page of articles and photographs about the construction of the Oahe Dam. Article titles include: Oahe Project Milestones; Planning for Oahe Project been underway 20 years; Subdistrict formation was key step; Oahe authorization most...
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- Reifel Sees ’68 as Year of Oahe Unit Approval
- Reifel, Ben, 1906-1990; Irrigation projects -- South Dakota; Irrigation -- South Dakota; Berry, Ellis Yarnal, 1902-1999; United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs.
- An article by Sen. Ben Reifel covering the legislation pending before Congress, including the Oahe Irrigation Project.
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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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- Thoen Stone Mute Witness to Early Hills Massacre
- Thoen Stone; Thoen, Louis; Thoen, Ivan; Adams Museum (Deadwood, S.D.)
- An article describing the Thoen Stone, its discovery and plans for a monument at the site.
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- New State Library Building Planned Here
- South Dakota State Library; Anderson, Herschel V. (Herschel Vincent); Spitznagel and Associates, Sioux Falls (S.D.); Building construction -- United States -- South Dakota -- Pierre -- 1970-1980
- The article describes the new State Library building being built in 1975.
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- From the Past: State Archeologist has a trio of jobs
- Sigstad, John; W.H. Over Museum; University of South Dakota; South Dakota. State Archaeological Commission
- An article describing the job John Sigstad as the State Archeologist.
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- Fort Meade in Black Hills Grew From a Custer Camp
- Fort Meade (S.D.); Sturgis, James G.; Sheridan, Philip Henry, 1831-1888; United States. Army. Cavalry, 8th; United States. Army. 25th Infantry Division; United States. Army. Cavalry, 6th; United States. Army. Cavalry, 4th; South Dakota. National...
- This article presents a history of Fort Meade from 1876 to 1828.
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- Meade Home Longest for 4th Cavalry
- Fort Meade (S.D.); Fort Meade VA Medical Center (Fort Meade, S.D.); United States. Army. Cavalry, 4th; United States. Army. Cavalry, 7th; United States. Army. Cavalry, 8th; Meade, George Gordon, 1815-1872; Tilford, J.G.; Carlton, Caleb Henry,...
- This article tells the history of Fort Meade before its conversion into a veterans’ hospital. The custom of playing the “Star Spangled Banner” as a national anthem was started at Fort Meade.
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- Post Modernization To Reach Peak This Year
- Fort Meade (S.D.); Fort Meade VA Medical Center (Fort Meade, S.D.); Stokes, Harold A.
- The article discusses the modernization program of the Veteran’s Administration Hospital at Fort Meade.
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- Badlands Ranked as a “Natural Wonder”
- Badlands South Dakota; Badlands National Monument (S.D.); Tourism -- South Dakota
- An article describing the various sites and areas of the Badlands and along the highways leading into the Badlands.
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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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- Fort Meade Near Sturgis Is One Of Few Remaining Cavalry Posts
- Fort Meade (S.D.); United States. Army. Cavalry, 4th; United States. Army. Cavalry, 7th; Sheridan, Philip Henry, 1831-1888; Meade, George Gordon, 1815-1872; United States. Army. Infantry, 24th; South Dakota -- History
- This article details a brief history of Fort Meade, located near Sturgis, SD.
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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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- Historic Cavalry Buildings At Ft. Meade Disappearing
- Fort Meade (S.D.); Fort Meade VA Medical Center (Fort Meade, S.D.); United States. Army. Cavalry, 4th; Comanche (Horse); Coolidge, Calvin, 1872-1933; Norbeck, Peter, 1870-1936; Case, Francis H. (Francis Higbee), 1896-1962; Pick, Lewis A. (Lewis...
- Fort Meade is being transformed into a Veterans Administration neuropsychiatric hospital. The article also includes a history of Fort Meade.
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- ‘Deadwood Champagne’ Blamed For Fort Meade’s Selection
- Fort Meade (S.D.); Sheridan, Philip Henry, 1831-1888; Sheridan, Michael V. (Michael Vincent), 1840-1918 Reno, Marcus A. (Marcus Albert) 1835-1889; United States. Army. Cavalry, 7th; South Dakota -- History
- This article concerns the efforts to establish a military garrison in the lower Rapid Valley and not near Bear Butte.
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- Business, Politics had Part In Sam Brown’s Epic Gallop
- Fort Sisseton (S.D.); Brown, Samuel; Brown, Joseph Renshaw, 1805-1870; Dakota Indians--Wars, 1862-1865.
- The article provides details of Sam Brown’s ride to Fort Sisseton to warn of an Indian uprising that never happened.
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- Fort Sisseton, Like Fort Meade, Saw No Battles but Made History Anyway
- Fort Sisseton (S.D.); Fort Wadsworth (S.D.); Rose, Robert; Holland, Marvin; Clowney, Major John; Brown, Sam; United States. Work Projects Administration; South Dakota. Dept. of Game, Fish, and Parks
- The article describes the present Fort Sisseton State Park and also provides a history of the fort.
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- Fort Sisseton Centennial in July
- Fort Sisseton (S.D.); South Dakota -- History
- The article announces the July 24, 1964 centennial celebration of Fort Sisseton and provides a short history of the fort.
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