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The American West: Paul Miller Turns Inheritance Into A Freighting Operation
A freighter with a bull team consisting of five oxen, Paul Miller hauled on the Sidney-Deadwood Trail and across South Dakota, carrying everything from mining equipment to beans.
Peggy SandersApril 26, 2025
The American West: Doc Peirce Prepared Wild Bill Hickok For Burial
Known as the man who laid out Wild Bill Hickok for burial, Doc Peirce had a storied life and his brief time in Deadwood made him famous. Of Hickok Peirce said, “he was the prettiest corpse I ever saw — the blood having run out of him so quickly, he looked just as if he was a wax figure.”
Peggy SandersApril 21, 2025
The American West: Black Hills Entrepreneur Started Off Poor And Shoeless
Frederick Taft Evans Sr., at 6-foot-4 and barrel-chested, was more than just physically big. The entrepreneur also had big ideas for the development of Hot Springs, Dakota Territory. But in the fall of 1856, Evans he was broke and barefoot, and chopping wood for $1 per cord.
Peggy SandersApril 03, 2025
The American West: Carving A Homestead In The Black Hills
Ira and Hattie Tillotson homesteaded a quarter section of land south of Hot Springs, Dakota Territory, near Cascade Springs, in 1883. The place is the oldest farm continuously owned by the same family in Fall River County, South Dakota.
Peggy SandersMarch 25, 2025
The American West: Annie Tallent, The First White Woman In The Black Hills
Annie Tallent was the first white woman to enter the Black Hills, Dakota Territory. She was a member of the Collins-Russell Expedition, also called the Gordon Party, which illegally traveled into the Black Hills in December 1874.
Peggy SandersMarch 24, 2025