Major John A. Pickler and his wife Alice Alt Pickler were South Dakota suffrage activists. They built a grand home in Faulkton.
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Major John A. Pickler and his wife Alice Alt Pickler were South Dakota suffrage activists. They built a grand home in Faulkton.
South Dakota Public Broadcasting produces commercial-free TV, Radio, and Internet programs and provides valuable community education outreach and resources.
In South Dakota, traditions have always involved people coming together for celebrations with our families and communities. Social distancing has changed the way we practice these traditions, but it hasn’t lessened our desire to find ways to gather. From a re-imagined Easter egg hunt to a drive-in church to new ways for a symphony to share its talents, SDPB looks for the ways we’re living the Dakota Life.
South Dakota has an extensive military history with at least a dozen forts being established in the territory throughout the 1800’s. The fortifications were built mainly along the Missouri River where riverboat traffic was used extensively to move cavalry troops into the region known as Dakota Territory. The first fort, Fort Pierre, evolved from a fur trading post and last just two years. Most other fortifications we also short-lived, their necessity disappearing as settlement spread westward across the Plains.
Fort Meade, named for Civil War General George Meade, was the last military outpost with an active horse cavalry. Today Fort Meade is the location of one of South Dakota’s Veterans Administration Hospitals, and boasts one of the finest military museums in the country. Read more about forts in South Dakota here.
In 1865, a unit of cavalry soldiers was sent west to keep the peace between incoming pioneer settlers and the Sioux Indians in what is now South Dakota. The soldiers built Fort James, one of the few stone forts on the American frontier. Time Team America traveled to South Dakota to find out how much of the fort survives so that it can be protected for future research. Watch the episode here.
Part historian and part artist, Fred Farrar chronicled the Black Hills from the turn of the century through the depression of the 1930s. He was one of the few invaluable pioneer photographers, working with glass plate negatives out of a mobile darkroom. His collection of photographs records the transformation and urbanization of the American West with themes like the cowboy, the Native American, the soldier, transportation, mining, lumbering and town building.
Fredrick William Farrar was born August 11, 1885 to John Joshua Farrar and Mary Elizabeth Hunt Potts in Cherokee, Iowa. At the age of two he arrived with his parents in Rapid City. While places like Lead and Deadwood were considered cities with brick paved streets, Rapid was still a cowtown with boardwalks and dirt (sometimes mud) streets.
Read more about Fred Farrar on the SDPB Living Blog.
Images are courtesy of the Minnilusa Historical Association Pioneer Collection at the Journey Museum and Learning Center, Rapid City, SD.
2019 is a special year for South Dakota and the Black Hills. This is the 100th year of Custer State Park’s existence. In addition to the beauty and natural resources unmatched anywhere in the world, Custer State Park boasts of having one of the most widely diverse wildlife ecosystems in existence. A visit to Custer State Park might bring you face-to-face with a Pronghorn Antelope, Bighorn Sheep, Mountain Goats, American Bison (aka Buffalo)...none of which you should approach. All varieties of birds, and other varmints inhabit the area as well. Read more about Custer State Park here.
Lemmon, South Dakota-based artist John Lopez is creating a monument to Hugh Glass, the legendary frontier adventurer best known for surviving a mauling by a grizzly bear. More at the SDPB Art and Culture blog.
Okaton, South Dakota. SDPB.org/landscapes.
Just west of Clark, South Dakota, on US HWY 212, look North and you’ll see a matching fleet of orange ’76 Ford LTDs, parked in two tidy rows, like they’re waiting for a light to change. You’re catching a driveby glimpse of Ken Bell’s CONVERSATION PIECES. More at the SDPB Art and Culture blog.
Our national bird is a common sight along the Missouri River and other waterways throughout South Dakota, but the Lake Andes National Wildlife Refuge Complex may be one of the best spots in the state for eagle watching. Recently, as spring weather thawed a massive frozen fish kill, eagles were treated to an easy all-you-can-eat. More at SDPB’s Art and Culture blog.
Via the Instagram of ontheperipheral.
Landscapes in the vicinity of the Francis Case Memorial (Platte-Winner) Bridge, connecting Gregory and Charles Mix counties, and the Missouri River bluffs that surround it.
South Dakota: A River Runs Through It
Most who are natives or residents of South Dakota have become so used to the Missouri River that we hardly think about the deep historical story behind this creation of nature.
First of all, many people don’t realize that the Missouri River is the longest river on the North American Continent… a lengthy 2314 miles from the Rocky Mountains in northwestern Montana to the plains of the state of Missouri and the city of St. Louis, where it empties in the Mississippi. The Missouri drains water from the southern areas of two Canadian Provinces, Alberta and Saskatchewan, and drains water from rivers in ten U.S. States: Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Minnesota, Iowa, Kansas and Missouri.
The most famous historical reference to the mighty Missouri River came in 1804, when President Thomas Jefferson dispatched Meriwether Lewis and William Clark on an epic exploration of the American West. These two explorers followed the Missouri River up into what is now Montana and then crossed over the Great Divide of the Rocky Mountains, traveling to the Pacific Ocean further west.
But the earliest reference to the Missouri River came from Louis Joliet and Jacques Marquette, fur traders from France who first entered the area in 1673. These two intrepid explorers established one of the largest fur trading posts in history at what became known as Fort Benton, Montana, near Great Falls.
But for many of us, our earliest memories of the Missouri River came in the first half of the 1900’s when heavy snowfall in the mountain and the prairie states yielded devastating floods which annually spilled over the banks of the river and flooded the farm land along hundreds of miles along the “Muddy Missouri”.
In 1944, Congress authorized the Flood Control Act, which authorized the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to build a series of dams stretching from Montana to the Southeastern South Dakota town of Yankton. The largest of the four massive dams on the Missouri River Is Oahe located just north of South Dakota’s Capital City – Pierre.
On August 17, 1962, President John F. Kennedy came to Pierre to dedicate the Oahe Dam and the overall flood control project. There are six dams which are a part of the Flood Control Project: Fort Peck Dam in Montana. Garrison Dam in North Dakota. Oahe Dam at Pierre, South Dakota. Big Bend Dam, near Fort Thompson. Fort Randall Dam near Pickstown, and Gavins Point Dam just outside of Yankton.There are three major benefits that result from the building of the six dams, being the most commonly recognized. Water sports, swimming, boating, water skiing, sun bathing, and fishing have all exploded in popularity along the hundreds of miles of shoreline. The generation of electrical power for many towns and cities is an important benefit from the dams and flood control, which has saves towns and cities as well as farmers and ranchers and other nearby businesses all of whom benefit from the fact that while “A River Runs Through It” most of us rarely think of how we all benefited from taming “Mighty Missouri River”.
Some 18 years after General Robert E. Lee’s surrender at Appomattox, a small band of Civil War veterans established a “veterans colony” in Potter County, that would become Gettysburg, South Dakota. https://sdpbne.ws/2Vfmzlx
The Crandall Pumps in tiny Crandall, South Dakota, was the last Standard Oil station in the US to use manual gravity pumps. The Pumps no longer serve gas, only nostalgia. https://sdpbne.ws/2V7vntl
The Gurney Hotel Building in Yankton is 128-years-old in 2019. But the Gurney was only the latest incarnation of the St. Charles Hotel — site of a makeshift courthouse for the trial of Wild Bill Hickok’s killer, Jack McCall, and other infamous moments in the history of Dakota Territory.
Harvey Dunn - World War One Illustrator
Harvey Dunn, a native of Manchester, South Dakota, was an artist and illustrator. His most well-known work is The Prairie is My Garden.
Dunn was one of eight artist-correspondents who served with the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) during World War One. While the majority of his work is housed in the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC, over 100 pieces of his work are in the South Dakota Art Museum in Brookings. Lynn Verschoor is the director of that museum and discusses Dunn’s work at the museum. Listen here.
Walking the Wire. Drawing by Capt. Harvey Dunn.
In the front line at early morning. Drawing by Capt. Harvey Dunn.
Machine Gun Emplacement. Drawing by Capt. Harvey Dunn.
Walking Cases. Wounded men stopped for a rest on their way back from the firing line. Drawing by Capt. Harvey Dunn.