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Pub. Date
2022.
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"From humorous barnyard battles with feisty cattle and rodeo horses, to the tragic and untimely death of her larger-than-life father, to her decision to her decision to return and run the farm and ranch with her family, Noem invites readers into a life defined by work, faith, and helping others. Noem's reflections are offered in the familiar, unvarnished voice of a woman who later defied Washington’s most powerful politicians and led the people...
84) Lakota woman
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Mary Brave Bird grew up fatherless in a one-room cabin, without running water or electricity, on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota. Rebelling against the aimless drinking, punishing missionary school, narrow strictures for women, and violence and hopeless of reservation life, she joined the new movement of tribal pride sweeping Native American communities in the sixties and seventies. Mary eventually married Leonard Crow Dog, the American...
86) Brendan Prairie
Author
Pub. Date
[1996]
Description
Fish and Wildlife agent Margaret Adamson arrives in the Black Hills of South Dakota to approve the construction of a condominium. Opposing the project is environmentalist Bill Malone, a well-known falconer. When a truck driver is killed, Malone becomes the suspect and Adamson sets out to clear his name. Twenty years earlier, they were high school sweethearts. By the author of Spirit of the Hills.
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
The town of Deadwood, South Dakota is a lawless sinkhole of crime and corruption. Into this uncivilized outpost ride a disillusioned and bitter ex-lawman, Wild Bill Hickok, and Seth Bullock, a man hoping to find a new start for himself. Both men find themselves quickly on opposite sides of the legal and moral fence from Al Swearengen, saloon owner, hotel operator, and incipient boss of Deadwood. The lives of these three intertwine with many others,...
89) Blood ties
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Series
Julie Collins mysteries volume 1
Pub. Date
c2005
Description
Julie Collins is stuck in a dead-end secretarial job with the Bear Butte County Sheriff's office, and still grieving over the unsolved murder of her Lakota half-brother. Lack of public interest in finding his murderer, or the killer of several other transient Native American men, has left Julie with a bone-deep cynicism she counters with tequila, cigarettes, and dangerous men. The one bright spot in her mundane life is the time she spends working...
90) On The Way Home
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
Description
The diary kept by the author of Little House on the Prairie during her family's journey from South Dakota to Missouri describes the sights and events that they encounter along the frontier during their trip.
Author
Series
Spirit Road mysteries volume 1
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
Native American FBI special agent Manny Tano investigates the murder of local land developer Jason Red Cloud, who was discovered with a war club in his skull on the site of his new resort on the Pine Ridge Reservation.
94) Badlands
Series
Pub. Date
[1999]
Description
Set in South Dakota in 1959, this is the story of Kit and his girlfriend, Holly, two people alienated from everyday life, who go on a killing spree.
Author
Series
Flat Stanley's worldwide adventures volume 1
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Hoping to escape the attention brought on by the accident that flattened Stanley, the Lambchop family drives to South Dakota, where they become involved in a wild west adventure at Mount Rushmore.
96) Fargo year 3
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
Okey-dokey, watcha got here is the darkly humorous and utterly riveting third season. Ewan McGregor gives one heckuva performance in dual roles as the âParking Lot King of Minnesota,â Emmit Stussy, and his younger brother, Ray, a potbellied parole officer with a big chip on his shoulder. The only bright spot in Rayâs life is Nikki, a not-so-good woman with brains, beauty and a passion for competitive bridge.
Description
Dayton O. Hyde is one of the last great American cowboys, a rugged adventurer with a spiritual connection to the frontier. Through heroic determination, he is single handedly rescuing the wild mustang from government slaughter on his breathtaking 12,000 acre Black Hills Wild Horse Sanctuary. Running wild, showcases one great cowboy's quest to save the American West.
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"The search for justice for a Lakota Sioux man wrongfully charged with murder, told here for the first time by his trial lawyer, Gerry Spence. This is the untold story of Collins Catch the Bear, a Lakota Sioux, who was wrongfully charged with the murder of a white man in 1982 at Russell Means's Yellow Thunder Camp, an AIM encampment in the Black Hills in South Dakota. Though Collins was innocent, he took the fall for the actual killer, a man placed...
Pub. Date
2022
Description
In Issue 24: Inspiration is in abundance in South Dakota, and it comes in many forms. You'll be introduced to Mary Reecy Fitzgerald, the founder and force behind the South Dakota State Documentation Project, an undertaking years in the making. You'll learn the history of the Star quilt and how it ties into Native culture, and meet the makers who are keeping their traditions alive today. You'll also read how teaching quilting in a prison has meant...
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