Bibliography of South Dakota history explained

See main article: History of South Dakota. The following works deal with the cultural, political, economic, military, biographical and geologic history of pre-territorial South Dakota, the southern part of Dakota Territory and the State of South Dakota.

Bibliographies

• Book: Laubersheimer, Sue. South Dakota Changing, Changeless, 1889-1989: A Selected Annotated Bibliography with Supplement and Index. 1985. South Dakota Humanities Council. 978-0-9632157-3-4. Recommended by the South Dakota State Archives.^[1]

General histories

South Dakota Magazine. This general-interest magazine covers history, art, and current events of South Dakota.

• Book: Hasselstrom, Linda M. . Roadside History of South Dakota . 1994 . . Missoula, MT . 0-87842-262-5 . registration .
• Hoover, Herbert T., and Harry F. Thompson. A new South Dakota history (Center for Western Studies, 2005)
• Book: Karolevitz. Robert F.. Hunhoff. Bernie. Uniquely South Dakota. 1988. Donning Company. 978-0-89865-730-2. From the publisher of South Dakota Magazine, with many photographs.
• Book: Miller, John E. . South Dakota at 125: Interpreting the Past, Assessing the Present, and Imagining the Future . The Great War and the Northern Plains . 2014.
• Book: Schell, Herbert S. . History of South Dakota . 2004 . . Pierre, SD . 0-9715171-3-4.
• Book: Thompson, Harry F. (ed.) . 2009 . A New South Dakota History . Second . . Sioux Falls, SD . 978-0-931170-00-3.
• Book: Wishart, David J.. David J. Wishart. Encyclopedia of the Great Plains. 2004. U of Nebraska Press. 0-8032-4787-7. complete text online; 900 pages of scholarly articles

Doane Robinson

Doane Robinson was a state historian of South Dakota and the author of several important works on the state's history through the first decade of the 1900s.

• Book: Robinson, Doane. Doane Robinson

. Doane Robinson. History of South Dakota. 1904. B. F. Bowen.

• Book: Robinson, Doane. Doane Robinson

. Doane Robinson. A Brief History of South Dakota. 1905. American Book Company.

American Indian history

• Book: Deloria, Philip J. and Salisbury, Neal (eds.) . 2004 . A Companion to American Indian History . . Oxford . 1-4051-2131-9.
• Book: Ronda, James P. . Lewis and Clark Among the Indians . 2002 . . Lincoln, NE . 0-8032-8990-1.
• Book: Holder, Preston . The Hoe and the Horse on the Plains: A Study of Cultural Development Among North American Indians . 1974 . . Lincoln, NE . 0-8032-5809-7.

Gold rush and Plains Wars

• Book: Krause. Herbert. Olson. Gary D.. Prelude to glory: a newspaper accounting of Custer's 1874 expedition to the Black Hills. registration. August 1974. Brevet Press. 978-0-88498-019-3.

Homesteading and agricultural settlement years

• Book: Laskin, David. The Children's Blizzard. 13 October 2009. HarperCollins. 978-0-06-186652-4.

Economic history

• Fite . Gilbert . Gilbert Fite . The Transformation of South Dakota Agriculture: The Effects of Mechanization, 1939–1964 . South Dakota History. 19 . 3: Fall 1989. 278–305.

Local studies

• Book: Atherton, Lewis Eldon. Main Street on the Middle Border. registration. 1966. Quadrangle.
• Harrison, Fraser. Infinite West: Travels in South Dakota (2013) Excerpt
• Miller, John E. Miller. Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little Town: Where History and Literature Meet (1994) excerpt
• Parker, Watson. Deadwood: The Golden Years (1981) excerpt
• Schwieder, Dorothy Hubbard. Growing Up with the Town: Family and Community on the Great Plains (University of Iowa Press, 2002); family life in the town of Presho, 1880s-1930s
• Book: Stock, Catherine McNicol. Main Street in Crisis: The Great Depression and the Old Middle Class on the Northern Plains. 1 September 1997. UNC Press Books. 978-0-8078-4689-6. - online edition

Geology

• Book: The Jewel Cave Adventure: Fifty Miles of Discovery in South Dakota . Herb . Conn . Jan . Conn . June 1981 . Jan and Herb Conn . Jan and Herb Conn. 0-939748-01-0. (describes the exploration of Jewel Cave National Monument from its discovery to the mid-1980s)

Political history

• Blackorby Edward. Prairie Rebel: The Public Life of William Lemke (University of Nebraska Press, 1955)
• Carlson Paul, and Steve Porter. "South Dakota Congressmen and the Hundred Days of the New Deal". South Dakota History vol, 8, no. 4 (Fall 1978): 327-39.
• Easton Patricia O'Keefe. "Women's Suffrage in South Dakota: The Final Decade, 1911–1920". South Dakota History vol 13 (1983): 206–26.
• Garry, Patrick M., and Candice Spurlin. "History of the 1889 South Dakota Constitution." South Dakota Law Review 59 (2014): 14+.
• Lamar Howard. Dakota Territory, 1861–1899: A Study in Frontier Politics (Yale University Press, 1956)
• Book: Lauck, Jon K.. Prairie Republic: The Political Culture of Dakota Territory, 1879-1889. 11 October 2012. University of Oklahoma Press. 978-0-8061-8588-0.
• Book: Lauck. Jon. John E.. Miller. Donald C. . Simmons (Jr.). Donald C. Simmons, Jr.. The Plains Political Tradition: Essays on South Dakota Political Culture. 2011. South Dakota State Historical Society Press. 978-0-9822749-2-7.
• Maier, Chris. "The Farmers' Fight for Representation: Third-Party Politics in South Dakota, 1889–1918." Great Plains Quarterly (2014) 34#2 pp: 143-162.
• Miller, John E., “Defining Moments in Twentieth-century South Dakota Political History,” South Dakota History, 42 (Summer 2012), 168–90.

Biographies

• Book: Ingalls Wilder, Laura . Laura Ingalls Wilder

. Pioneer Girl . Laura Ingalls Wilder. November 20, 2014. 978-0984504176. South Dakota State Historical Society. annotated.

• Book: Hoover . Herbert T.. Larry J.. Zimmerman . 1989. South Dakota Leaders: From Pierre Chouteau, Jr., to Oscar Howe . Vermillion. University of South Dakota Press. 439.
• Book: Norris, Kathleen. Kathleen Norris (poet)

. Kathleen Norris (poet). Dakota: A Spiritual Geography. 1993. Ticknor & Fields. 0-395-63320-6. Autobiography of life in northwestern South Dakota.

Societies, organizations, and collections

• Web site: South Dakota State Historical Society . State of South Dakota . Pierre, South Dakota.
  • Web site: South Dakota Digital Archives . South Dakota State Historical Society .
• Web site: Center for Western Studies . Augustana College. Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
• Web site: South Dakota Oral History Center . . Vermillion, South Dakota. 1950s-present.
• Web site: South Dakota Agricultural Heritage Museum . . . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20141218225612/http://www.sdstate.edu/agmuseum/ . 2014-12-18 . 1882-present.

See also

• Bibliography of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
• Bibliography of Montana history
• Bibliography of Wyoming history
• Bibliography of North Dakota history
• Bibliography of Minnesota history
• Bibliography of Nebraska history
• List of bibliographies on American history

Notes and References

1. Ken Stewart, Research Room Administrator, S.D. State Archives, 900 Governors Drive, Pierre, SD 57501-2217. September 4, 2014.