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The Black Hills have been famous ever since the gold rush days of the 1870s. This book takes a look at the remains of those ghosts: the camps, the stage stops, the communities, the people who made the Black Hills famous. The book details 600 towns and includes many historical and contemporary photos. Also included are maps and tips on how to locate the ruins of those ghost towns.
Chronicles Deadwood, South Dakota, a typical American frontier and gold rush town, especially the volatile years 1875-1925.
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Jens Severine Jakobsen was born 6 July 1874 in Stonglandseidet, Senja Island, Norway. His parents were Jakob Andreas Pedersen (1843-1904) and Hanna Kristine Pedersdatter (1843-1918). He married Eline Karoline Ingebrigtsen (1891-1956) 4 January 1909 in White Earth, Ward County, North Dakota. They had nine children. Ancestors, descendants and relatives lived mainly in Norway, North Dakota, Minnesota, Nebraska and Montana.
Rimmed by Crow Peak and Lookout and Spearfish Mountains, like jewels in a crown, Spearfish, the Queen City, reigns over an area of scenic beauty. Originating from the Black Hills gold rush era, Spearfish has prospered from the days of the open range, its rich agricultural valley, the surrounding mining communities, and eventually tourism. Over 200 vintage photographs document its historical past. Scenic Spearfish Canyon and the Black Hills Passion Play attract thousands of tourists annually. Spearfish is the home of Black Hills State University, which began as a normal school and now has an enrollment of 3,900 students. The diverse appeal of this Northern Hills town has been its greatest asset.
The definitive collection of South Dakota's odd, wacky, and most offbeat people, places, and things, for South Dakota residents and anyone else who enjoys local humor and trivia with a twist.
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Approaches to avoid loss of life and limit disruption and damage from flooding have changed significantly in recent years. Worldwide, there has been a move from a strategy of flood defence to one of flood risk management. Flood risk management includes flood prevention using hard defences, where appropriate, but also requires that society learns to live with floods and that stakeholders living in flood prone areas develop coping strategies to increase their resilience to flood impacts when these occur. This change in approach represents a paradigm shift which stems from the realisation that continuing to strengthen and extend conventional flood defences is unsustainable economically, environ...