South Dakota State Historical Society Press

Established in 1997, the South Dakota State Historical Society Press has made a commitment to produce books reflecting the rich and varied history of South Dakota and the region. As part of the South Dakota State Historical Society, the Press preserves, researches, and promotes the evidence of South Dakota’s colorful culture and heritage. For over fifteen years the Press has been serving its readers and authors with new award-winning books, gaining a deserved reputation for publishing well-researched and scholarly books of the highest standard. The Press’s catalog features an array of popular books that are both accurate and enjoyable to readers of all ages.

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This is an excellent book if you want to learn more about the Norwegian settlement in America.”—Bill Markley, Roundup Magazine

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Review of Infinite West: Travels in South Dakota from Great Plains Quarterly vol. 34, no. 2. 

Purchase Infinite West from the South Dakota State Historical Society Press at www.sdshspress.com, [phone], [email protected] or by visiting your local book store.

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Love Letters From Mount Rushmore

Visit Richard Cerasani's website for information on his book with the South Dakota State Historical Society Press!

The Story of a Marriage, a Monument, and a Moment in History

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Letters bridge the distance for an immigrant family and those they left behind

Webster is the nearest town, about two Norwegian miles away from the farm in Nutley Township, but the relatives back home in Norway must not imagine the streets here in Dakota are strewn with gold.

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South Dakota’s pheasant opener is this weekend (10/19/2013). 

  Visit www.sdshspress.com to purchase the Mystery of the Pheasants, byauthors Mark Meierhenry and David Volk.

  In the Mystery of Pheasants, Max and Hannah are about to go on their first pheasant hunt. They have taken their safety course, and they can’t wait to get out into the field. But there is much they don’t know about the Chinese ring-necked pheasant, and the twins’ grandfather has plenty to teach them before they load their shotguns for the first time.

Appropriate for young readers from first- to third-grade, Pheasants is a great present for your young hunter or hunter-to-be.  

"It’s a sweet story… . Meierhenry and Volk weave important anecdotes about our immigrant birds. Readers learn how pheasants were imported from China and first released on a Spink County farm in 1909, and how annual fall hunts have become nearly as important as Thanksgiving and Christmas for some families."—South Dakota Magazine

“The Mystery of the Pheasants is excellent reading"—Midwest Book Reviews

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Paul Goble Book Signing

TODAY! Books-A-Million, Rapid City, South Dakota, 2:00PM - 4:00PM.

Get a book signed by this award-winning author/illustrator.

Visit www.sdshspress.com to purchase Walking Along, a SDSHS Press book by Paul Goble.

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Paul Goble, is at Books-A-Million in Rapid City from 2pm-4pm, Saturday 8-24-2013.

Stop in, say hello, and get a book signed by this award-winning author/illustrator!

Visit www.sdshspress.com to purchase Walking Along, a SDSHS Press book by Mr. Goble.

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Book of the Week: Order Sitting Bull, Prisoner of War at sdshspress.com by Friday and get $1 off

After his surrender at Fort Buford in what is now North Dakota, the United State Army transported Sitting Bull and his followers down the Missouri River to Fort Randall, roughly seventy miles west of Yankton. There the famed Hunkpapa leader remained for twenty-two months.

During that year and a half, Sitting Bull conducted tribal business, met with dignitaries and visitors, and interacted with those who imprisoned him. Dennis Pope has written a dramatic account of that time and those relationships. 

Sitting Bull, Prisoner of War fills a gap in the great chief's story, allowing readers to explore a previously little-known episode of his life.

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NEW Review from Journal of the West. According to reviewer Patricia Ann Owens, Ho! For the Black Hills, is "a must read for all frontier history students."  Ho! For the Black Hills, $18.95, is available through most independent and retail bookstores, to order through the South Dakota State Historical Society Press email [email protected] or call 605-773-6009.

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"As I turn the calendar page to August, autumn has appeared on the horizon. At the South Dakota State Historical Society Press, we are overseeing the birth of new books for the fall."—Nancy Koupal, SDSHS Press Director

Read the rest of the "New Books to Look Forward To" from the SDSHS Press blog by clicking here!

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Book of the Week: Order Dancing with Colonels, edited by Litoff, at sdshspress.com before end of Friday and get $1 off

Struck with the desire to see and do more with her life, a young South Dakota woman left the family home to work for Senator Peter Norbeck in Washington, D.C. When the position ends she signs up for the military as a civilian secretary. With WWII in full swing, she finds herself traversing the globe en route to Ankara, Turkey.

With Marjorie Havreberg's letters, readers are given an excellent window to look through into the 1930s and 1940s.

"The letters are so vibrant that they hum with excitement." —bookwoman247, LibraryThing.com

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A ripping yarn within a treasure trove of primary documents get your copy of Ho! For the Black Hills: Captain Jack Crawford Reports the Black Hills Gold Rush and Great Sioux War today.

Read the Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln review of Ho! For the Black Hills above. "Hedren has performed a valuable service in bringing Crawford's lively, informative, and sometimes troubling stories to a wider audience."

Available in paperback for $18.95, visit www.sdshspress.com, email [email protected], or contact your local bookstore to order this book.

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Book of the Month: Order by 1 September and get $5 off your online purchase at sdshspress.com Waiting for Coyote's Call: An Eco-memoir from the Missouri River Bluff, by Jerry Wilson

Inspired by Henry David Thoreau, Aldo Leopold, and Annie Dillard, Jerry Wilson's eco-memoir covers twenty-five years of trying to live life leaving as small an environmental footprint as possible.

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It was a box of returns, gentle reader, from a major distributor. Just as you might return a product that you find you can’t use, so it goes in the book business. Bookstores return slow-moving stock to the distributors who provide it, and distributors return it to the publishers. Only a tiny percentage of the books that we send out are returned, but in this case, the distributor had apparently been saving up returns for a while, and we got a box the size of a goat.

Read the rest of The Travels of Mr. Schell on the SDSHS Press blog

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Book of the Week: Order Six, by Rasmussen, at sdshspress.com before Friday and get $1 off

In the 1940s and 1950s, unable to field competitive eleven-man football teams, small towns across the United State started playing six-man football. In Six, Marc Rasmussen reveals a hidden history, unveiling the many facets the sport of six-man football and the man, Bill Welsh, who took a small town to victory.

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Book of the Week: Order Walking Along, by Goble, at sdshspress.com by Friday and get $1 off

In Walking Along Paul Goble has pulled together six of his best Iktomi stories and compiled them into a compendium of trouble, disaster, fun, and examples from which to learn. Iktomi is the Lakota name for the American Indian Trickster who appears in the stories of peoples all over the North American continent. He is famous for getting into mischief, causing trouble, and never learning the lessons handed out to him.

"A unique collection of Lakota Trickster tales, retold and illustrated by a master for the delight and edification of children and adults alike." —Midwest Book Review

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Published in 2011 by the South Dakota State Historical Society Press, Walking Along: Plains Indian Trickster Stories, by Paul Goble, was reviewed in North Dakota History.

"Exquisitely written and illustrated with the meticulous attention to detail we've come to associate with Caldecott-winner Paul Goble. What sets this picture book apart from other collections of Trickster stories is that these are structured recreations of the ways Trickster stories might be experienced in a contemporary environment, while remaining respectful of the cycle's great traditions that reach far into cultural history."—Janet Spaeth

Walking Along is available for $19.95 plus shipping and tax and can be purchased from most bookstores or ordered directly from the South Dakota State Historical Society Press. Visit www.sdshspress.com or call [phone].

Paul Goble will be signing books in Rapid City, South Dakota, at Books-A-Million on 24 August from 2 pm-4 pm North of Twelfth Street, by Tom Dempster, and The Mystery of the Pheasants, by Mark MeierHenry and David Volk, illustrated by Susan Turn Bull, were mentioned in North Dakota History's Bookmarks.