The Story of South Dakota In 100 Landmarks

<p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>America turns 250. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Let's go find the candles.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Looking for a history lesson that doesn't feel like homework? You've found it. At 250history.com the Semiquincentennial Series brings each state's distinctive landmarks to center stage to tell their fast and fun story. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>We've wandered through big cities tiny towns muddy trails and neon-lit highways-uncovering 5000 historic gems along the way.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The Semiquincentennial isn't just a mouthful-it's a reminder that history is alive sometimes weird and always waiting to be rediscovered. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Whether you're traveling by road by printed page or by imagination; whether you are a lifelong native or visiting for a week we invite you to explore 100 South Dakota landmarks that illuminate the one-of-a-kind story of the Mount Rushmore State. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Soddies... Cement City... grain palaces... Czechs... Monument</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Movement... Fair Price filling stations... Hollywood star turns... wa-</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>ter cure... Great Sioux Wars... ghost towns... the CCC... Builder of</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>the Prairie... lungers... the golden age of motoring... town baseball...</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>igloos... Prairie Cathedrals... fire towers... Lustron Houses... B-36</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Peacemakers... POW camps... grottoes... pigtail bridges... Meskers...</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>welcome centers... Hub City of the Dakotas... round barns... petri-</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>fied wood... This book will have you telling stories like a native in no</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>time.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The photos and stories collected here are a fast and fun way to learn</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>the explanations behind the quirks the traditions and the secrets that</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>make South Dakota uniquely South Dakota. Where was the first fed-</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>eral execution in the Dakota Territory? Solved. What school has pro-</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>duced the most Rhodes scholars in South Dakota? A mystery no more.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>What was the largest piece of gold ever discovered in South Dakota?</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Identified. Where was the first professional football game played in</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>the state? Revealed. Where was the first wire-and concrete dinosaur</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>built? No one knows for sure.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>It is a story only South Dakota can call its own. A story told in 100 landmarks. Almost all the selections within are open to the public or at least visible from public spaces. So fire up the GPS and see the story of the Mount Rushmore State standing in plain sight on South Dakota streets!</span></p><p></p>