Category South Dakota

CRAZY HORSE MEMORIAL

September 16, 2015 · by · in American West History, Crazy Horse, Creativity, Native American, Research, South Dakota · Leave a comment

By Patricia Grady Cox September 16, 2015 When you’ve wanted to visit a place ever since you first heard of it (and that would be decades ago), how wonderful it is that you are not disappointed when you get there! The Crazy Horse Memorial held the number one spot on my list of places to […]

DEADWOOD, SOUTH DAKOTA

August 31, 2015 · by · in About Writing, American West History, Living in the Past, National Historic Landmark, South Dakota · 4 Comments

By Patricia Grady Cox, September 2, 2015 I read Pete Dexter’s novel a few years ago (after hearing him speak at the Tucson Festival of Books where he told a fascinating story about his lawsuit against HBO). I am not a scholar of South Dakota history—most of my knowledge of Deadwood comes from accidental exposure […]