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South Dakota Flag
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SOUTH DAKOTA

South Dakota 24/7
South Dakota
24/7


The Dakotas: Off the Beaten Path
The Dakotas: Off the Beaten Path


The Smithsonian Guides to Natural America: The Northern Plains : Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota
The Smithsonian Guides to Natural America:
The Northern Plains : Minnesota, North Dakota, South
Dakota


South Dakota: Simply Beautiful
South Dakota: Simply Beautiful


Roadside Geology of South Dakota
Roadside Geology
of South Dakota


M is for Mount Rushmore: A South Dakota Alphabet
M is for
Mount Rushmore:
A South Dakota Alphabet




Famous
South Dakotans

Sparky Anderson
Catherine Bach
Bob Barker
Gertrude Bonnin,
Zitkala-Sa

Gutzon Borglum
Tom Brokaw
Calamity Jane
Amanda Clement
Shawn Colvin
Tom Daschle
Vine Deloria
Harvey Dunn
Myron Floren
Joe Foss
Tim Giago
Mary Gunderson
Joseph Hansen
Mary Hart
“Wild Bill” Hickok
Crazy Horse
Oscar Howe
Hubert H. Humphrey
Roy Braxton Justus
Cheryl Ladd
Ernest Orlando Lawrence
Russell Means
George McGovern
Oscar Micheaux
Al Neuharth
Dorothy Provine
Scotty Philip
Rain-in-the-Face
Red Cloud
Sitting Bull
Theodore W. Schultz
Luther Standing Bear
Casey Tibbs
Norm Van Brocklin
Mamie Van Doren
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Korczak Ziolkowski

Greetings from...
Aberdeen
Deadwood
De Smet
Black Hills
Lead City
Mitchell
Pierre
Rapid City
Sioux Falls
Sturgis
Wall
Yankton




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South Dakota Posters, Prints, Photographs, Maps, & Calendars
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South Dakota Satellite Map Photo
South Dakota
Satellite Map Photo

(44º30'0"N 100º0'0"W)

State Bird : Ring Necked Pheasant
State Flower : Pasque or
May Day Flower
State Insect : Honey Bee
State Animal : Coyote
State Tree : Black Hill Spruce
State Capital : Pierre
State Motto : “Under God the
People Rule.”
South Dakota Map by county.
US Census Bureau facts
All About South Dakota

South Dakota, known as the “Mount Rushmore State”, joined the Union on November 2, 1889 as the 40th state. “Dakota” is the Sioux word for friend.

South Dakota is in the West North Central Region, bordered by North Dakota to the north, Wyoming on the west, Nebraska on the south and Minnesota on the east.



South Dakota - Just as prospectors did a century ago, adventurers drawn to South Dakota today head for the hills in the state's southwest corner. Then the lure was gold; now the magnet lode yields such nuggets as Mount Rushmore and Jewel Cave, the Wild West towns of Lead and Deadwood, Wind Cave National Park with its remnant of pristine grassland.

But the curious visitor can find attractions elsewhere, too. A cluster of natural freshwater lakes dots the state's northeast corner, making it a prime skating and ice-fishing region in winter. Northeast of Aberdeen stands restored Fort Sisseton, recalling Indian-war days of the the mid-1800's. Mitchell's huge, turreted Corn Palace sports exterior murals “painted” with varicolored ears of corn; it houses a week-long festival in September. Touches of Germany and Scandinavia linger in the fertile James River Valley, where immigrants pioneered.

South Dakota's own version of the Great Lakes is a chain of bulging reservoirs along the Missouri River. Dams backing up the artificial lakes offer powerhouse tours. You can also boat, picnic, swim, or seek fishing prizes–15-pound walleyes, 35-pound northern pike, even strange 100-pound paddlefish who lower jaws drop like elevators to open gaping maws.

A Plains Indian homeland, the state has 32,000 Sioux; most live on the adjoining Rosebud and Pine Ridge Reservations. Rosebud Indians hold an end-of-August fair with ceremonial dances and buffalow-steak dinners. Pine Ridge's Indians conduct a sun dance in early August near storied Wounded Knee, site of 1890 and 1973 conflicts.

At Cactus Flat or Wall you can dip into the Badlands, a terrain of wind-blasted rock and water-cut canyon that Indian fighter Gen. Alfred Sully called “hell with the fires out.” At Rapid City you can strike out for the Black Hills attractions: Custer State Park protects a buffalo herd that a hired jeep and guide will take you to see; Deadwood's Mount Moriah Cemetery hold the graves of Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane, Preacher Smith; Lead (pronounced Leed) lives up to its name–the Homestake Gold Mine paces the nation in output and you can tour its surface workings.

(poster text about South Dakota)


South Dakota Flag Art Print
South Dakota Flag Art Print

State Capitol, Pierre, South Dakota, Art Print
State Capitol,
Pierre, SD,
Art Print

• more flag posters


Greetings from South Dakota Art Print
Greetings from
South Dakota
Art Print
Corn Palace, Mitchell, South Dakota Art Print
Corn Palace, Mitchell, South Dakota Art Print

State School of Mines, Rapid City, South Dakota, Art Print
State School of Mines, Rapid City, South Dakota,
Art Print
Pierre, South Dakota from Space, Photographic Print
Pierre, South Dakota
from Space,
Photographic Print

c.1902 Map of South Dakota, Print
c.1902 Map of
South Dakota,
Print


South Dakota Topographic Wall Map by Raven Maps, Laminated Print
South Dakota Topographic Wall Map Laminated

Belle Fourche, the Geographic Center of US, South Dakota, USA, Photographic Print
Belle Fourche, SD
Geographic Center of the US
Photographic Print



Ring Neck Pheasant, Art Print
Ring Neck Pheasant,
Art Print

The South Dakota State Bird is the Chinese ring-necked pheasant, introduced to South Dakota in 1898 as a game bird. It is easily recognized by its colorful plumage and known for its delicious meat.

• more bird posters


Pasque Flower, Giclee Print
Pasque Flower,
Giclee Print

The South Dakota State Flower is the Pasque or May Day flower which grows wild throughout South Dakota and is one of the first signs of spring in the state. The name “pasque” comes for the French word for Easter. The Pasque is also the official flower of the Canadian province of Manitoba.

• more botany posters


Honey Bee, Apis Mellifera, Photographic Print
Honey Bee,
Apis Mellifera, Photographic Print



The South Dakota State Insect is the honey bee, the principal pollinator of crops and for producing pleasant-tasting and healthful honey. South Dakota is a leading honey producing state.

food posters


Portrait of a Coyote Sitting in the Snow, Photographic Print
Portrait of a Coyote
Sitting in the Snow,
Photographic Print

The South Dakota State Animal is the adaptable coyote, a natural predator of small game and rodents. The coyote hunts the open prairies and fields over the entire state, occurring mostly along river banks and in the Black Hills.

dog posters


Autumn Snow Dusts Evergreen Trees in the Black Hills, Photographic Print
Autumn Snow Dusts Evergreen Trees in
the Black Hills,
Photographic Print

South Dakota State Tree is the Black Hills spruce, a pyramid shaped member of the evergreen or coniferous family with dense foliage of short, blue-green needles and slender cones.

trees posters


Workers Continue Work on Crazy Horse, Photographic Print
Crazy Horse Memorial, Photographic Print

Crazy Horse
b. c 1840;
d. 9-5-1877; Red Cloud Agency, near Crawford, NE

Crazy Horse fought against the US federal government to save the traditions of the Lakota Sioux way of life. Sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski (1908-1982) began the project in 1948 at the request of Lakota Chief Henry Standing Bear and other Native American elders. His wife, Ruth, and some members of their family continue the project, working with the nonprofit Crazy Horse Memorial Foundation. The memorial is located in the Black Hills of South Dakota, 17 miles from Mount Rushmore.

• Crazy Horse: The Strange Man of the Oglalas
• Crazy Horse and Korczak: The story of an epic mountain carving


Leaders - Mount Rushmore Poster
Leaders - Mount Rushmore
Poster

(43º52'44"N 103º27'35"W)

Mount Rushmore
near Keystone, South Dakota

Between 1927 and 1941 sculptor Gutzon Borglum and 400 workers created the 60-foot carvings of U.S. presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln to represent the first 150 years of American history.

• Great White Fathers: The True Story of Gutzon Borglum and His Obsessive Quest to Create the Mt. Rushmore National Monument
Presidents posters
• more National Parks posters


Badlands Loop Road and Rock Hills, Badlands National Park, South Dakota, U.S.A. Giclee Print
Badlands Loop Road
and Rock Hills,
Badlands Nat'l Park, SD,
Giclee Print

Badlands National Park, southwest South Dakota, preserves 244,000 acres of sharply eroded buttes, pinnacles and spires blended with the largest protected mixed grass prairie in the US.

National Parks posters
natural phenomena posters


Cowboys in the Badlands, 1888, Giclee Print; Thomas Eakins
Cowboys in the
Badlands, 1888,
Giclee Print;
Thomas Eakins

Cowboys in the Badlands, 1888, Thomas Eakins


Brontosaurus, Dinosaur Park, Rapid City, South Dakota, Art Print
Brontosaurus,
Dinosaur Park,
Rapid City, SD,
Art Print

Brontosaurus, Dinosaur Park, Rapid City, South Dakota

• more dinosaur posters


Riding to the Buffalo Chip, Sturgis, South Dakota, 1993, Art Print
Riding to the
Buffalo Chip,
Sturgis, SD, 1993,
Art Print

The Sturgis Motorcycle Rally is held annually in Sturgis the first full week of August.


An F4 category tornado barrels across South Dakota farmland, Giclee Print
An F4 category tornado barrels across South Dakota farmland,
Giclee Print

An F4 category tornado barrels across South Dakota farmland.

weather posters


Tomb of Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane, Deadwood, SD, Art Print
Tomb of
Wild Bill Hickok
and Calamity Jane,
Deadwood, SD,
Art Print

“Wild Bill” Hickok, born James Butler Hickok (b. 5-27-1837 in Troy Grove, IL; d. 8-2-1876; Deadwood, SD), is a legendary figure in the American Old West. His fictionalized adventures were inspired by his skills as a gunfighter, scout, and lawman. An interesting fact - Hickok's father ran a station of the Underground Railroad.

Calamity Jane, nee Martha Jane Cannary, (5-1-1852; Princeton, MO; d. 8-1-1903) lead a colorful frontier life. She claimed she and Wild Bill were “close” and managed to get herself buried next to him - the truth may never be known, she might have been what we would call today, a stalker.

They Called Him Wild Bill


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