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Hay Camp: The Rough Founding of Rapid City
The 1876 settlement first called Hay Camp was founded by men shut out of the Black Hills diggings who bet on a supply town near Rapid Creek instead.
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How Rapid City Became the Pennington County Seat
Early county organization in Dakota Territory and how Rapid City secured its place as the seat of Pennington County in the Black Hills.
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Stagecoaches Between Rapid City and the Deadwood Diggings
The freight and passenger lines that linked Rapid City to the Deadwood gold camps in the Black Hills before the railroad arrived.
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The Rockerville Flume and the Gold Camps South of Rapid City
To work the dry placer ground at Rockerville, miners built a long wooden flume across the Black Hills near Rapid City. A look at an ambitious gamble.