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Category : South Dakota
Languages : en
Pages : 496
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South Dakota Historical Collections
Herman P. Chilson Western Americana Collection
Author: I.D. Weeks LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : South Dakota
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
A South Dakota Guide
Author: Publisher: US History Publishers
ISBN: 1603540407
Category : South Dakota
Languages : en
Pages : 557
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The WPA Guide to South Dakota
Author: Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN: 9780873515528
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
In the 1930s, at the height of the Great Depression, the federal government put thousands of unemployed writers to work in the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA). Out of their efforts came the American Guide series, the first comprehensive guidebooks to the people, resources, and traditions of each state in the union. The WPA Guide to South Dakota is a candid, detailed, and lively introduction to the state and its people. Much has changed since the book's first publication in 1938, when the authors noted, "South Dakota has been, and still is, a pioneer state." But the book vividly recaptures the era when no driver's licenses were required, when liquor could not be sold on election days until after 5:00 PM, when Pierre's recreational groups included polo riders and skeet shooters, when the Morrell packing plant at Sioux Falls offered free tours on weekdays. This unique guide has much more than nostalgia to offer today's readers. Twenty-eight auto tours and nine city tours tell the stories of the state's people and places and offer a fascinating alternative to freeway travel. Essays on major themes such as native peoples, history, architecture, transportation, and recreation provide an authentic self-portrait of 1930s South Dakota in humorous, loving, and literary prose. A new introduction by historian John E. Miller shares the story behind the American Guide series and celebrates those distinctly South Dakotan qualities preserved in this decades-old volume-qualities that hold true today. This time-traveler's guide to South Dakota is an evocative reminder of the state's history and a challenge to contemporary readers who seek to find how that past lives on in the present day. Book jacket.
The WPA Guide to South Dakota
Author: Federal Writers' ProjectPublisher: Trinity University Press
ISBN: 1595342397
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
During the 1930s in the United States, the Works Progress Administration developed the Federal Writers’ Project to support writers and artists while making a national effort to document the country’s shared history and culture. The American Guide series consists of individual guides to each of the states. Little-known authors—many of whom would later become celebrated literary figures—were commissioned to write these important books. John Steinbeck, Saul Bellow, Zora Neale Hurston, and Ralph Ellison are among the more than 6,000 writers, editors, historians, and researchers who documented this celebration of local histories. Photographs, drawings, driving tours, detailed descriptions of towns, and rich cultural details exhibit each state’s unique flavor.
A Selected List of South Dakota Books
Author: Writers' Program (U.S.). South DakotaPublisher:
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Category : South Dakota
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
The Ladies' Home Journal
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Category : Women's periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 1158
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Country Home
Author: Better Homes and Gardens
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Category : Architecture, Domestic
Languages : en
Pages : 1710
Book Description
On the Rez
Author: Ian FrazierPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312278595
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Raw account of modern day Oglala Sioux who now live on the Pine Ridge Indian reservation.