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Books
- The Mystery of the Pheasants
- North of Twelfth Street
- Seth Bullock
- The Mystery of the Maize
- The South Dakota State Capitol
- The Jumping-Off Place
- Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane
- Ho! for the Black Hills
- Love Letters from Mount Rushmore: The Story of a Marriage, a Monument, and a Moment in History
- Sioux Women
- Pioneer Girl
- Hugh Glass
- Controlled Recklessness
- Natives of a Dry Place
- Red Cloud
- Plains Political Tradition
- The Monster Who Ate the State
- County Capitols
- Circling Back Home
- Dear Unforgettable Brother
- Transformation and Continuity in Lakota Culture
- Tasunka
- Literary Apprenticeship of Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Infinite West
- Indian Heirship Lands
- Walking Along
- Six
- A South Dakota Rendezvous
- Dancing with Colonels
- Come into the Water
- Greet the Dawn
- Umpire in a Skirt
- Gold Rush
- Sitting Bull Surrender Census
- Sitting Bull, Prisoner of War
- Principle over Party
- Dammed Indians Revisited
- Small-town Boy, Small-town Girl
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Waiting for Coyote's Call
- Short promo video for Waiting for Coyote's Call.wmv
- jerry wilson interview part 1.wma
- jerry wilson interview part 2.wma
- reader's guide L.pdf
- Waiting for Coyote's Call press release 090408.pdf
- Yankton P&D Coyote's Call Article.pdf
- Jerry Wilson presents at SD CHC part 1.wmv
- Jerry Wilson presents at SD CHC part 2.wmv
- Jerry Wilson presents at SD CHC part 3.wmv
- Waiting for the Coyote review from Library Thing.pdf
- roundup review.pdf
- chapter 3.pdf
- sd mag review.pdf
- SD Mag Victor piece.pdf
- Great Plains Quarterly review.pdf
- Nebraska_History_review.pdf
- Forgotten Lives
- Dance in a Buffalo Skull
- The Sioux in South Dakota History
- Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Cowboy Life
- Politics of Oz
- Picturing the Past
- The Discontented Gopher
- Gold, Gals, Guns, Guts
- The Raccoon and the Bee Tree
- Plains Political Tradition
- Dakota
- Fort Randall on the Missouri, 1856-1892
- Gold in the Black Hills
- George McGovern
- Hard Knocks
- Tatanka and the Lakota People
- Peter Norbeck
- A New Deal for South Dakota
- Paul Goble, Storyteller
- Pioneer Girl Perspectives
- Fort Tecumseh and Fort Pierre Chouteau
- Muskrat and Skunk / Sinkpe na Maka
- Glorious Fourth of July
- Born Criminal
- Early Churches in South Dakota
- The Plains Political Tradition
- Without Reservation
- Gabriel Renville
- The Frontier Army
- The Christmas Coat: Memories of My Sioux Childhood
- Spotted Tail: Warrior and Statesman
- The First Strike: Doolittle Raider Don Smith
- Equality at the Ballot Box: Votes for Women on the Northern Great Plains
- Journal
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News & Events
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News
- Award-winning holiday story now in paperback from State Historical Society
- "South Dakota History" Winter 2017 Now Available
- OneBook2019_p1.pdf
- 2019 South Dakota One Book, Young Readers
- New Book on the Frontier Army Released by State Historical Society
- Radical Suffragist Matilda Joslyn Gage is Remembered in New Biography
- New Biography Looks at First Lakota Congressman Benjamin Reifel
- State Historical Society Releases First Biography of Sisseton-Wahpeton Leader
- Symposium, New Book Celebrate State’s Political Culture
- Historical Society Press takes gold Literary Classics book award
- "South Dakota History" Fall 2017 Now Available
- Historical Society Press new member of Association of University Presses
- Paul Goble Biography Now Available from State Historical Society
- Obituary: Paul Goble
- State Historical Society Author Chris Browne Receives Mayor’s Award
- State Historical Society conference in Sioux Falls to feature Laura Ingalls Wilder, latest society book
- Historical Society Press named best by True West magazine
- South Dakota History highlights pioneering health care workers, philanthropists
- Book on South Dakota Churches Named Award Finalist
- New Hugh Glass Biography Now Available from State Historical Society
- New book on Laura Ingalls Wilder coming in 2017 from State Historical Society
- NEW HISTORICAL SOCIETY BOOK MARKS SD TOWN BICENTENNIAL, TRADE HISTORY
- New Historical Society Book Marks SD Town Bicentennial, Trade History
- Churches, Aberdeen bakery highlighted in “South Dakota History”
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Events
- BOOK SIGNING & RECEPTION | SD Nelson & Paul Goble Exhibits Closing
- Women's Suffrage on the Northern Great Plains Symposium
- AUTHOR EVENT | Preservation Thursdays: Kelly Kirk
- A Christmas Collection: Songs and Stories to Celebrate the Season
- North Dakota Book Festival
- OLLI Program | The Near Prospect of the Enfranchisement: The 1890 South Dakota Vote on Woman Suffrage and Indian Suffrage
- BookExpo America, 2017
- South Dakota State Historical Society 2017 History Conference
- Author Meet & Greet at Prairie Pages in Pierre
- Book Signing at Mitzi's Books in Rapid City
- Book Signing and Talk by Author Angelica Carpenter
- 50th Annual Dakota Conference
- Fourth Annual Midwestern History Conference
- 58th Annual Western History Association Conference
- SD Festival of Books
- Laura Ingalls Wilder's 151st Birthday
- Independent Bookstore Day
- Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting
- Heartland Fall Forum
- 38th Annual Artists of the Plains Art Show & Sale
- AUTHOR EVENT: Caroline Fraser on Laura Ingalls Wilder
- South Dakota State Historical Society History Conference
- History and Heritage Book Club
- MEETUP & EXHIBITION | Northern Great Plains History Conference
- MEETUP & EXHIBITION | South Dakota Library Association Conference
- MEETUP & EXHIBITION | South Dakota Festival of Books
- MEETUP & EXHIBITION | Western History Association Conference
- AUTHOR EVENT | A Century Celebration: Women's Suffrage in South Dakota, 1868-1918
- AUTHOR EVENT | A Century Celebration: Women's Suffrage in South Dakota, 1868-1918
- BOOK EVENT | Richmond L. Clow on "Spotted Tail: Warrior and Statesman"
- BOOK & COMMUNITY EVENT | Winter Coat Drive & Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve on "The Christmas Coat: Memories of My Sioux Childhood"
- BOOK EVENT | R. Eli Paul on "The Frontier Army: Episodes from Dakota and the West"
- Born Criminal: Matilda Joslyn Gage, Radical Suffragist
- From HUAC to EROS: How the Mundt/Nixon Association Impacted South Dakota and the Nation
- Behind the Scenes of the 19th Century
- Presentation and Book Signing with Sean Flynn
- Book Signing at DDR Books in Watertown
- 62nd Missouri Valley History Conference
- BookExpo America and BookCon
- Association of University Presses Annual Meeting
- An Afternoon with Sean Flynn
- 2019 Denver Indian Wars Symposium
- Sensational Sundays: Book Lecture & Signing (Sean J. Flynn)
- Book Talk & Signing with Angelica Shirley Carpenter
- BookExpo America | AUTOGRAPHING SESSION WITH NANCY TYSTAD KOUPAL
- AUTHOR EVENT: "Love Letters from Mount Rushmore"
- BOOK SIGNING: Gregory Bryan Author of "Paul Goble, Storyteller"
- CALL FOR PROPOSALS | "The Plains Political Tradition, Vol. 4"
- Delta Kappa Gamma Society Northwest Regional Conference
- Laura Ingalls Wilder Memorial Society: Laura's 150th Birthday Event
- MEET THE AUTHORS & BOOK SIGNING
- 2018 Annual History Conference
- CWS Hosts Plains Politics Symposium and Book Launch
- Act of Excellence Ceremony
- Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators Annual Winter Conference
- History and Heritage Book Club
- Book Signing with Sean J. Flynn
- After Hours Author Event with Angelica Shirley Carpenter
- Holiday Open House
- BOOK SIGNING: "Monster Who Ate the State" by Chris Browne
- BookExpo America, 2018
- History & Heritage Book Club
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News
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Blog
- Book Expo America Recap, “Little Booth, Gigantic Books”
- Photo Recap of the South Dakota Governor’s Conference on Tourism
- Working Cattle with Ed Lemmon; or, A Town Boy Explains How Not to Ride Line
- "Muskrat and Skunk, Sinkpe na Maka" Author is on Tour
- Glorious Fourth of July and Other Stories from the Plains
- Flashback Friday: Winter on the Range
- Schaller’s Department Store, a Piece of Watertown History
- Flashback Friday: Carrie Ingalls & Her Tar Paper Shack
- Love Letters from Mount Rushmore in Italy
- Flashback Friday: The Life and Style of Casey Tibbs
- A Birthday Celebration: Laura Ingalls Wilder Turns 151
- Flashback Friday: Women on the Plains
- The Saga of the Soddie
- Flashback Friday: The Outlaw Poet
- Cabin Fever in the Land of Infinite Winter
- Flashback Friday: “Overlooked,” South Dakota Edition
- Flashback Friday: Fighting Stallions Memorial
- Introducing Mike Burns, New Associate Editor
- Introducing Cody Ewert, New Associate Editor
- Flashback Friday: Remembering World War I
- Death by Bean Feed
- Remembering Pearl Harbor
- Like Many Others. . . . South Dakota
- A Monumental Anniversary
- Six-Man Comeback?
- Our Churches
- Dakota’s Dubious Dinosaurs
- Naval Ships and a Land-Locked State
- Covering the Spanish Flu
- Looking for Lucretia’s House
- A Century of Wildlife Recovery in Custer State Park
- “Source Material” and The Frontier Army
- Summer 2019: Progress Report
- 2019 South Dakota One Book, Young Readers
- Hiding in Plain Sight
- The Gift of Handkerchiefs
- Defending Separate Spheres: Anti-Suffrage Women in South Dakota Suffrage Campaigns
- Cora Smith Eaton and North Dakota Woman Suffrage
- “So Great an Innovation”: Women Suffrage in Wyoming
- Man or Myth, Who was Wild Bill Hickok?
- “A Right to Help Make the Laws”: Helen Piotopowaka Clarke, Virginia Billedeaux, and Blackfeet Empowerment
- Pioneer Girl Project
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