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Volume 56, Number 2

South Dakota History

In the Summer 2026 issue, Cindy Wilson examines how time, memory, artistic license, and personal philosophy influenced Laura Ingalls Wilder's unfavorable depiction of the railroad company's efforts to clear the tracks of snow in her classic novel The Long Winter , and what the historical record reveals on the subject; In the next installment of…

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