Publisher:
New York: Hastings House, (1952). Sponsored by the State of South Dakota.
Seller ID: 2833qs
Octavo, blue cloth (hardcover), map illus. endpapers, xxvii + 421 pp. Near-Fine, with lightly rubbed edges; in a Good+ dust jacket with edgewear that includes light chipping. View More...
Publisher:
Vermillion, SD: Dakota Press, University of South Dakota, 1984.
Seller ID: 14206kms
Octavo, paperbound (stiff, gold, illus. wrappers), 219 pp. Good+, with sunned spine & neat former-owner signature, a few penciled notes. From Foreword: Sue Hitchman captures the spirit and vitality of the people of the great plains area as she focuses her attention on South Dakota as it emerges from the sod shanty era. A skilled writer, hitchman tells the fascinating story of the state's beginning with the native Indians, the advent of the trappers, the birth of the prairie towns and South Dakota's entry into the 20th Century. The author's anecdotes of her early life in the state are lite... View More...
Publisher:
Ames: The Iowa State University Press, 1971.
Seller ID: vas985
Octavo, gold boards (hardcover), 155 pp. Illustrated. Near Fine in a Good dust jacket with edgewear that includes light chipping. From dust jacket: The whites of a steam locomotive... short surges of excitement... brief twinges of fear... the final fond farewells.. It is the summer of 1909 and the Cashatt family is leaving Iowa for a new home in South Dakota. Thus opens this delightful story of the early homesteading experiences of young Faye Cashatt's family in South Dakota. How strange were the people, the land, the way of life in that barren country at the end of the railroad. ÒThere... View More...
