Bibliography of South Dakota history

The following works deal with the cultural, political, economic, military, biographical and geologic history of pre-territorial South Dakota, the southern part of Dakota Territory and the State of South Dakota.

Bibliographies

 * Recommended by the South Dakota State Archives.

General histories
South Dakota Magazine. This general-interest magazine covers history, art, and current events of South Dakota.
 * Hoover, Herbert T., and Harry F. Thompson. A new South Dakota history (Center for Western Studies, 2005)
 * From the publisher of South Dakota Magazine, with many photographs.
 * complete text online; 900 pages of scholarly articles
 * complete text online; 900 pages of scholarly articles
 * complete text online; 900 pages of scholarly articles
 * complete text online; 900 pages of scholarly articles
 * complete text online; 900 pages of scholarly articles

Doane Robinson
Doane Robinson was a state historian of South Dakota and the author of several important works on the state's history through the first decade of the 1900s.

Local studies

 * Harrison, Fraser. Infinite West: Travels in South Dakota (2013) Excerpt
 * Miller, John E. Miller. Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little Town: Where History and Literature Meet (1994) excerpt
 * Parker, Watson. Deadwood: The Golden Years (1981) excerpt
 * Schwieder, Dorothy Hubbard. Growing Up with the Town: Family and Community on the Great Plains (University of Iowa Press, 2002); family life in the town of Presho, 1880s-1930s
 * - online edition
 * - online edition

Geology

 * (describes the exploration of Jewel Cave National Monument from its discovery to the mid-1980s)

Political history

 * Blackorby Edward. Prairie Rebel: The Public Life of William Lemke (University of Nebraska Press, 1955)
 * Carlson Paul, and Steve Porter. "South Dakota Congressmen and the Hundred Days of the New Deal". South Dakota History vol, 8, no. 4 (Fall 1978): 327-39.
 * Easton Patricia O'Keefe. "Women's Suffrage in South Dakota: The Final Decade, 1911–1920". South Dakota History vol 13 (1983): 206–26.
 * Garry, Patrick M., and Candice Spurlin. "History of the 1889 South Dakota Constitution." South Dakota Law Review 59 (2014): 14+.
 * Lamar Howard. Dakota Territory, 1861–1899: A Study in Frontier Politics (Yale University Press, 1956)
 * Maier, Chris. "The Farmers' Fight for Representation: Third-Party Politics in South Dakota, 1889–1918." Great Plains Quarterly (2014) 34#2 pp: 143-162.
 * Miller, John E., “Defining Moments in Twentieth-century South Dakota Political History,” South Dakota History, 42 (Summer 2012), 168–90.
 * Maier, Chris. "The Farmers' Fight for Representation: Third-Party Politics in South Dakota, 1889–1918." Great Plains Quarterly (2014) 34#2 pp: 143-162.
 * Miller, John E., “Defining Moments in Twentieth-century South Dakota Political History,” South Dakota History, 42 (Summer 2012), 168–90.

Biographies

 * Autobiography of life in northwestern South Dakota.
 * Autobiography of life in northwestern South Dakota.
 * Autobiography of life in northwestern South Dakota.

Societies, organizations, and collections

 * 1950s-present.
 * 1882-present.
 * 1950s-present.
 * 1882-present.
 * 1882-present.