south dakota

Ma and the girls follow Pa west by train where they make their home at a rough railroad camp and plan for their own homestead.

Explores the role the Teton Indians played in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show; examines the meaning of the Ghost Dance and the United States military's suppression of the ritual; and includes five of Short Bull's narratives.

Tells the story of the discovery of the nearly-complete skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus rex in South Dakota in 1990 by Sue Hendrickson, a worker with commercial dinosaur hunter Peter Larson; and discusses the battle that ensued for ownership of the bones--a fight finally won by Chicago's Field Museum, with help from Disney and McDonald's.

Spirits of the 1860s, Ghost Horse and Red Dress, seek to be reunited through an Indian couple of the 1980s.

During their first four years of marriage, Laura and Almanzo Wilder have a child and fight a losing battle in their attempts to succeed at farming on the South Dakota prairie.

A modern Dakota Indian medicine man recounts his life and spiritual experiences.

Only twelve-year-old Colleen knows that her baby sister died just after she was born and that Colleen put another baby in her place, until the baby's father shows up and makes trouble for her and her family on the South Dakota prairie in the 1860s.

Tells the story of the creation of the monument at Mount Rushmore in South Dakota, discussing the origins of the idea to make the carving, looking at the work done by sculptor Gutzon Borglum, and considering the importance of Mt. Rushmore to the state.

Sixteen-year-old Minna Losk journeys from Odessa, Russia to South Dakota as a Jewish mail-order bride. She wishes for a young, wealthy husband, her own house, freedom from physical labor, and privacy. But she is granted none of these as her husband is twice her age, rigidly Orthodox, and living in a hut with two teenage sons. Most troubling of all, Minna soon finds herself increasingly attracted to her older stepson and as a brutal winter closes in, she is forced to confront her despair as well as her desire.

In 1976 the body of Anna Mae Aquash, an American Indian activist, was found in the Badlands of South Dakota. She had died of exposure--or so the autopsy results said. Friends and family had her body exhumed and found a .32-caliber bullet in her skull.