"Developed by literacy experts for students in grades three through seven, this book introduces young readers to the geography and culture of South Dakota"--

Grisly murders are rocking the small county of Bear Butte where Julie Colilns has spent the last few months learning the PI biz without the guidance of her best friend and business partner, Kevin Wills. Tony Martinez convinces Julie to take the case of a missing five-year-old Native American girl, although skeptical about Martinez's motives, Julie sees the opportunity to hone her investigative skills outside the office.

A vietnam vet, haunted by his Sioux friend's death, inadvertently goes back in time to the Sioux Indian Wars of 1876.

Mary Brave Bird grew up fatherless in a one-room cabin, without running water or electricity, on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota. Rebelling against the aimless drinking, punishing missionary school, narrow strictures for women, and violence and hopeless of reservation life, she joined the new movement of tribal pride sweeping Native American communities in the sixties and seventies. Mary eventually married Leonard Crow Dog, the American...

Fish and Wildlife agent Margaret Adamson arrives in the Black Hills of South Dakota to approve the construction of a condominium. Opposing the project is environmentalist Bill Malone, a well-known falconer. When a truck driver is killed, Malone becomes the suspect and Adamson sets out to clear his name. Twenty years earlier, they were high school sweethearts. By the author of Spirit of the Hills.

Julie Collins is stuck in a dead-end secretarial job with the Bear Butte County Sheriff's office, and still grieving over the unsolved murder of her Lakota half-brother. Lack of public interest in finding his murderer, or the killer of several other transient Native American men, has left Julie with a bone-deep cynicism she counters with tequila, cigarettes, and dangerous men. The one bright spot in her mundane life is the time she spends working...

Hoping to escape the attention brought on by the accident that flattened Stanley, the Lambchop family drives to South Dakota, where they become involved in a wild west adventure at Mount Rushmore.

In Issue 24: Inspiration is in abundance in South Dakota, and it comes in many forms. You'll be introduced to Mary Reecy Fitzgerald, the founder and force behind the South Dakota State Documentation Project, an undertaking years in the making. You'll learn the history of the Star quilt and how it ties into Native culture, and meet the makers who are keeping their traditions alive today. You'll also read how teaching quilting in a prison has meant...

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.