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Recent South Dakota Articles
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Announcing our Recipe Contest Winners
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The Results are in folks!
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The results are in folks. Our 2011 Favorite Family Recipe Contest was a hit.
Our Grand prize goes to Angie Easterby of Meadow, South Dakota for her "Best Peanut Brittle".
View all the winners and
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Nicks Hamburger Shop, Brookings SD
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Buy 'em by the bag
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Burger "joints" come and go but whatever you, don't miss Nicks Hamburger Shop in Brookings, South Dakota.
Since 1929 this place has been churning out hamburgers to satisfied customers from throughout the world.
In 1929 burger at Nick's cost 5 c
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Where in South Dakota is Mount Rushmore?
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Mount Rushmore National Monument
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Mount Rushmore, or "Mount Rushmore National Monument" is a granite sculpture located in western South Dakota near the town of Keystone.
Click on link below to view map.
Four former United States Presidents are portrayed – George Washington, Tho
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Gene Vidal - father of Gore Vidal
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SMALL-TOWN BOY MAKES LIFE INTERESTING
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What do Amelia Earhart, Al Gore, Jackie Kennedy and Gore Vidal have in common? Through complicated permutations of marriages, divorces, affairs, and old-fashioned family relationships, they all interconnect with a young man born 0n the prairie.
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Where is Sitting Bull Monument?
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Debate over the authenticity of the remains at the Mobridge, South Dakota
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A site on the west side of the Missouri overlooking Mobridge, South Dakota is the current semi-official location of Sitting Bull's remains. How he ended up there is a tale worthy of the Wild West.
Sitting Bull was shot in a tragic confrontation w
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Where is the Crazy Horse Monument?
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The Crazy Horse Memorial in the Black Hills
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The Crazy Horse Memorial is an enormous sculpture located in the mountains known as the Black Hills in South Dakota. By car, travel US Highway 16/385 just 17 miles southwest of Mount Rushmore ( See the map link below )
Henry Standing Bear and ot
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They Survived the Titanic
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One man who lived to tell the tale and ended up living in Onida, South Dakota
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Oskar Hedman, Survivor
Oscar Hedman arrived from Sweden 1905 and settled in Beach, North Dakota. In addition to some routine types of employment, he became affiliated with various land promoters and real estate speculators. At the age of 27 he was
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Vern Miller - Sheriff, Moonshiner, Hit-man
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How did the career of a small-town sheriff from South Dakota promote the creation of the modern FBI? Well, for one thing, he became a gangster.
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The earliest years in Vern Miller’s biography remains unclear. It is reported that he was born in Kimball, South Dakota in 1896. Not much is known about his early years, but he was a resident of Huron, South Dakota by 1914. His life appears ordinar
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Thoen Stone in Black Hills
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In our third and last part of our series on the Thoen Stone, we give carving on rock a go!
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Also see part one and part two
An intriguing question posed in par
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Ward Piggy Lambert - The Gunslinger of Basketball
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HOW A QUICK-THINKING SOUTH DAKOTAN CHANGED BASKETBALL FOREVER
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Deadwood, South Dakota has long been an iconic symbol of the Old West. It ranks with Tombstone, Dodge, and Tucson as encapsulating the hardy, unrestrained, unlawful character of life in the boom towns on the frontier. Indeed, Deadwood as a center o
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