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http://www.northern.edu/natsource/EARTH/Geolog1.htm 
This website gives a brief summary of South Dakota’s geological history and why it is important today. It covers several different eras of time, and provides you with vocabulary terms related to geology.

http://www.worldalmanacforkids.com/explore/states/southdakota.html
This website is a quick guide for referencing such aspects as the economy, land and resources, and settlement of South Dakota, all of which deal with the mining industry.

http://www.steamlocomotive.info/southdakota.cfm  20 locomotives found in South Dakota.

http://int.phys.washington.edu/NUSEL/timeline.html  Homestake Gold Mine time line.

http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000428  Information about George Hearst, Developer of Homestake Gold Mine.
 
http://www.state.sd.us/denr/DES/Mining/history.htm  The history of mining regulation in South Dakota.

http://int.phys.washington.edu/NUSEL/history.html  History of the Homestake Gold Mine of South Dakota.

http://www.state.sd.us/denr/DES/mining/mineprg.htm  Protecting our environment, the regulatory functions of the Minerals and Mining Program.

A list of readings:

Gold in the Black Hills
By Watson Parker
South Dakota State Historical Society Press

Chasing the Glitter: Black Hills Milling, 1874-1959
By Richmond L. Clow
South Dakota State Historical Society Press

Gold Rush: The Black Hills Story
Compiled and with an Introduction by John D. McDermott
South Dakota State Historical Society Press

Ethnic Oasis: The Chinese in the Black Hills
By Liping Zhu and Rose Estep Fosha
South Dakota State Historical Society Press

History of South Dakota,
Fourth Edition, Revised
By Herbert S. Schell
Revised and with a Preface by John E. Miller
South Dakota State Historical Society Press (NOTE: SHOULD BE IN SERIES LIST OF READINGS)

An Illinois Gold Hunter in the Black Hills; the diary of Jerry Bryan March 13 to August 20, 1876.
By Bryan, Jerry. With an inroduction and notes by Clyde Walton.
Springfield, Ill., Illinois State Historical Society, 1960.

Annie Tallent
By Nancy Niethammer Kovats.
Lame Johnny Press, Hermosa SD. c1983. Note: Cover title: Annie Tallent. The mystery of the first white woman in the Black Hills

The bandit of the Black Hills / Max Brand [i.e. F. Faust]. Brand, Max 1892-1944.

Black Hills pioneer stories
By Carl Leedy, edited and chapter introductions by Mildred Fielder.
Lead, S.D. : Bonanza Trails Publications, [1973].

The Black Hills mining rush.
By Benjamin Franklin Gilbert, Journal of the West, 1964. Manhatten, Kansas

Black Hills outlaws, lawmen and others
by Irma H. Klock. I.H. Klock, c1981.

The Chinese in the Black Hills
By Mildred Fielder. 2d ed. Centennial Distributors, 1982, c1972. Deadwood, S.D.

Gold, Gals, Guns, Guts: A History of Deadwood, Lead, and Spearfish, 1874-1976
Edited by Bob Lee. Stan Lindstrom and Wynn Lindstrom, assistant editors
 

South Dakota State Historical Society

Makoché Music - Featuring American Indian recording artists.

 

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