Deadwood South Dakota History
Earthquake Hazards Program: Earthquake History of South Dakota
The strongest tremor in this series (measured at magnitude 5.1) occurred at 3:08 a.m. CST, March 28,1964. The instrumental epicenter was nearMerriman, Nebraska, where broken goods werereported in stores; also, dishes were broken inhomes, and stucco under windows cracked. Sixteenkilometers south, 75 cracks were noted in the highway,and some steep banks tumbled along the river(VII). Plaster fell at Rushville, and part of a chimneytoppled at Alliance, Nebraska. Slight damage alsooccurred in southwestern South Dakota - a retainingwall was damaged at Deadwood, there were afew slight cracks in ceiling plaster at Interior, a glasscontainer broke in a market at Martin, and wall andceiling plaster cracked at Pine Ridge. Several farmsnear Martin also reported broken glass. The totalfelt area, including several places in Wyoming,covered approximately 230,000 square kilometers. One town inMontana (Alzada) reported this tremor. ... [Read More]
History of Scotts Bluff National Monument (Contents)
Earl R. Harris is a native of New Brighton,Pennsylvania, where he attended public schools. In 1945 he moved toDeadwood, Souuth Dakota, and later attended Black Hills TeachersCollege. He is a veteran of the Korean conflict and was a professionalmusician for four years before becoming associated with the NationalPark Service, in 1953, at Mount Rushmore National Memorial, SouthDakota. Besides the B.S. Ed. degree in music, he also holds aMaster of Arts degree in American History from Colorado State College.He has written a number of articles and monographs which have appearedin newspapers, quarterlies, and trade magazines. ... [Read More]
Devils Tower National Monument
When the negotiations broke down in 1875, the troops were withdrawn and miners and settlers poured into the region. Towns such as Custer City and Deadwood sprung up over night. Many of the Indians, as a result, became convinced that they would lose their reservations in the Dakotas, Wyoming and Montana and joined the hostiles. By early 1876 the Government found a full-scale Indian war on its hands. Following the Battle of the Little Bighorn in June, the Army pursued the hostile groups relentlessly. In the fall of that year the Indians were compelled to cede the Black Hills and most of their lands in Wyoming to the whites. For several years, however, small marauding groups continued to wander through the region. ... [Read More]
Earthquake Hazards Program: Earthquake History of Nebraska
Probably the strongest earthquake in Nebraska historyoccurred on November 15, 1877 . There were two shocks45 minutes apart; the second was the strongest.At North Platte the shock was reported to have lasted40 seconds and intensity VII effects were noted.Buildings rocked at Lincoln, and walls weredamaged at Columbus.The shock was strongly felt at Omaha.Cracked walls were reported at Sioux City, Iowa.The total felt area covered approximately 360,000square kilometers including most of Nebraska andportions of Iowa, Kansas, the Dakotas,and northwestern Missouri. ... [Read More]
History of the Black Hills of South Dakota
By 1875 Col. Richard I. Dodge estimated 800 white men were mining or residing in the Hills. Mining camps were established near Custer, Hill City and Deadwood. As old claims played out, new ones were found and towns died or were born almost overnight. By 1876, approximately 10,000 people populated the Hills. ... [Read More]
U.S. Treasury - Important Events in Treasury History in June
1927 -- The United States Assay Office in Deadwood, South Dakota, closed. ... 1896 -- An Act of Congress established the United States Assay Office in Deadwood, South Dakota. ... Important Events in Treasury History ... [Read More]
Today in History: November 2
Words and Deeds in American History provides a glimpse into several important moments in the life of the sixteenth president, including a page of a sum book from his childhood, and a letter to Mary S. Owens, who received a proposal of marriage from Lincoln in 1837. Search the collection on Lincoln to find more material. To learn more about the Manuscripts Division , visit the Special Presentation Collecting, Preserving, and Researching History . Visit Mr. Lincoln's Virtual Library . It brings together the wealth of Lincoln materials held at the Library of Congress including correspondence and papers accumulated primarily during Lincoln's presidency in forms such as prints, broadsides, books, pamphlets, sheet music, cartoons, maps, drawings, and other memorabilia that will offer a unique view of Lincoln's life and times. Search Civil War Photographs, 1861-1865 and America's First Look into the Camera: Daguerreotypes, 1839-1862 on George B. McClellan to find photograp ... [Read More]
Glimpses of Our National Monuments (Fossil Cyad)
A reconstructed fossil cycad flower. In an accessible and picturesque part of the BlackHills Rim in South Dakota, just at the south entrance to the hills, isthe Fossil Cycad National Monument, an area of 320 acres reserved bypresidential proclamation October 21, 1922, to protect its largedeposits of the fossil remains of fernlike plants of the Mesozoicperiod, which are of intense interest to scientists. This is probablyone of the most interesting fossil-plant beds yet discovered, with themost perfectly preserved specimens, and is known to scientific peoplethroughout the world. These cycads were really of a tree-fern type, andit is time fossil tree trunks that first attracted attention about 30years ago. Later investigations and discoveries, however, brought outthe fact that these trunks, millions of years ago in the age whenegg-laying monsters were still extant, actually bore flowers. While noactually open fossil flowers have been found, many of the trunks containunexpanded buds, and ... [Read More]
CVO Menu - America's Volcanic Past - South Dakota
The Sharps Formation reflects an overall change in geologic and environmental conditions that began 26 to28 million years ago. The region became even drier, and mammoth ash fall deposits associated withtremendous ignimbrite-style volcanic eruptions in the Great Basin region episodically blanketed theBadland region. The Sharps consists mostly of tuffaceous sandstones, stream channel sand and floodplainmud (paleosols) typical of steppe or even desert-like conditions. Harksen and others (1961) who firstdescribed the formation thought its age was Miocene. The Sharps Formation is now recognized to be latestOligocene but is assigned to the Arikaree Group (a group dominated by Miocene-age rocks elsewhere inthe region).The highest peaks in the badlands consist of the eroded remnants of Sharp Formation. Morecomplete exposures of the Sharps Formation can be seen at Agate Fossil Beds National Park innorthwestern Nebraska (about 200 miles southwest of Badlands National Park). The Sharps Formationm ... [Read More]
Library of Congress Information Bulletin - October 2003
South Dakota. The first South Dakota Festival of Books was held from Oct. 3 to Oct. 5 in Deadwood. The theme is “Bringing Readers and Writers Together.” The sponsors include the South Dakota Center for the Book, the South Dakota Humanities Council, the Adams Museum & House in Deadwood, the City of Deadwood and the Deadwood Historic Preservation Committee. Participants include writers E. Annie Proulx, Leif Enger, former U.S. Senator George McGovern, Vine Deloria Jr., Dan O’Brien, Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve, poet Kathryn Akipa and book appraiser Ken Gloss. ... [Read More]
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