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From the late 1940s until the mid-1950s, WNAX radio in Yankton brought the experience of a South Dakota barn dance to listeners all over the upper Midwest.
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The Big Bend dam on the Missouri River near Fort Thompson, South Dakota, was the last-built of the six great Missouri River dams. This film, likely shown on tours at the dam, describes the dam's construction and purpose.
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A ski jump near Canton, South Dakota was used for national ski jumping events, including the 1932 Olympic trials.
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From the archives, he was the first Lakota to serve in the House of Representatives, Ben Reifel sits down with South Dakota Public Broadcasting.
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In this SDPB archive video, we take to Lake Kampeska with some intrepid ice sailors. It comes from our South Dakota Outdoor Guide show with host Pete Egart, aired in 1989.
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A chance meeting with a salesman in Watertown led Ted and Dorothy Hustead on a drive across South Dakota to investigate an opportunity in a tiny town called Wall.
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This film from 1949 shows the growing popularity of skiing on Terry Peak in the Black Hills of South Dakota.
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In this rare 1962 film from South Dakota Public Broadcasting's archives, we listen as writer, poet and ethnographer John G. Neihardt reads from his book, "Black Elk Speaks".
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Excerpts from the 1992 documentary "The Men Who Made Rushmore" combine film shot during the carving of Mount Rushmore with interviews of workers fifty years after the project came to an end.
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Although a number of events and issues influenced and altered Borglum's original vision, the main determiner of what would finally be cut into the granite was the mountain itself. Cracks and other "flaws" in the rock forced certain decisions about what could be done and what could not be.