black hills
4 articles on black hills.
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The Founding of Rapid City in 1876: From "Hay Camp" to the Gateway of the Black Hills
How a frontier supply town on the banks of Rapid Creek grew out of the 1876 Black Hills Gold Rush to become Rapid City, South Dakota, the Gateway to the Black Hills.
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He Sapa: The Lakota and the Black Hills Before Rapid City
Long before Rapid City was founded, the Black Hills (He Sapa, or Pahá Sápa) were and remain sacred to the Lakota people. The deeper history of the land that became Rapid City, South Dakota.
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Carving Mount Rushmore: How the Black Hills Memorial Was Built (1927-1941)
The story of how Mount Rushmore was carved into the Black Hills near Rapid City between 1927 and 1941, from Doane Robinson's tourism idea to Gutzon Borglum's dynamite, drills, and four 60-foot presidents.
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The Stratobowl: How Rapid City Launched Humans to the Edge of Space
In 1935, a giant balloon rose from a sheltered valley near Rapid City, South Dakota and carried two men higher than anyone had ever flown. The story of the Stratobowl and the record-setting Explorer II stratosphere flight.