Spring The Historian 2013 Newsletter of the Friends of Case Library

Rafting on swimming pool built by Este F-3 Camp at the Forks Campground. Photo from the Black Hills National Forest Historical Collection. For full image see http://bit.ly/151I2kE

Mission: The Leland D. Case Library preserves and promotes the history of the Black Hills, , and the Northern Great Plains. We collect historical materials and provide professional collection care. {We are service oriented and assist with the research needs of the University, the community, and the world.} Highlighted Collection: Crow Peak Extension Club Records

by Beshka Ringstad

The Crow Peak Extension Club came into being on February 8, 1925, under the supervision of Evan W. Hall, County Agent, and May Kiethline of the State Extension Office at Brookings, South Dakota. It was the oldest extension club in Lawrence County and the only club in South Dakota to have three Eminent Homemakers as members. The Eminent Homemakers and the companion Eminent Farmer/Rancher awards were established in 1927. It is a South Dakota statewide award that recognizes individuals for their contributions of leadership and service to the community on the local, state and national level. According to Founding Members of the Crow Peak Extension Club. the organization´s constitution, meetings were to be held in the homes of the a delegate was sent to the National children, the maintenance of a happy members, in alphabetical order, on the Demonstration Council meeting in home, and a sense of community that first Wednesday of each month. The club Lexington, Kentucky. During World encompasses even the less fortunate. was organized to study problems relating War II, two Netherlands families were Case Library received this collection to home and community and focused its sponsored and packages were sent to in 2007. It contains: secretary’s books, energies on promoting and educating on them. song books from dances and meetings, homemaking skills. Other activities the club participated handbooks, and organizational business Various homemaking demonstrations in include a reading program, 4-H Club, records. The collection covers the period were held, such as “First Aid in the donating money and time to disabled of 1926-1989 and gives us a look at Home,” “Desserts that are Different,” children and the elderly, studying Civil women’s lives during that time. A full and a fair exhibit entitled “Something Defense, and recycling. At Christmas inventory of the collection is available Cooked or Sewed.” From May 2, 1934, time, a potluck supper and program by on our web pages at http://iis.bhsu. until sometime in 1936, the Crow 4-H members marked the occasion; as edu/lis/specColl/findingAid/index. Peak Extension Club belonged to the well as a visit by Santa. Overall, the club´s cfm?aid=crowpeak Federation of Women´s Clubs. In 1938, goals encompassed the raising of healthy Help us save our history Highlighted Resource: Sharp Bits These links are to the Society of American Archivists pamphlets on In February of 1951, the Public Relations Department of the Homestake donating your personal papers or Mining Company issued the first monthly edition of a publication called business records to an archive. Please Sharp Bits. This “new experiment” was to “more fully advise employees of consider donating your historical the details of the operations of the company.” It also contained personal items photographs, scrapbooks, diaries, such as retirement, birth, and death announcements. Following the hospital personal and family papers, and business or organizational records report of the “blessed events” that occurred in Homestake families, “proud relating to the history of the Black Hills fathers” are reminded to note the new deduction on their withholding reports. to the Case Library (or another favored Items included were not limited to dry technical details of mining archive or museum). operations. One item in the premier issue reports the progress of the modernization of the recreation building. Floors in the bowling alley would Donating personal records: be replaced, the lighting would be updated, floors refinished, andalls w http://bit.ly/tJHmg6 redecorated. When the renovation was finished, the facility was to be renamed Donating organizational records: “The Homestake Club”. Another item announced that W.P. Wildermuth, http://bit.ly/w0FrMZ Dr. of Optometry had joined the hospital staff. For the first year or so, Sharp Bits was published in a four-page newsletter Follow Us! format. Eventually, additional pages were added, and by April 1953 the The Leland D. Case Library for publication evolved into a glossy magazine format and began including Western Historical Studies is on Facebook! photographs. Items included information about local sites to see such as www.facebook.com/CaseLibrary Devil’s Tower and . By the Spring of 1967 the publication had become a quarterly. Content had gone from being Lead community oriented to news of interest to the Homestake global community. Sharp The Black Hills Historian Bits ceased publication with the Fall/Winter issue of 1970. The Case Library (The Case Library newsletter) holds a complete run of this publication. This useful resource provides both Contact info valuable details of Homestake’s operation and a sense of the Homestake, Lead community. Case Library is located on the second floor of the E.Y. Berry Library- Learning Center on the campus of Black Hills State University. Hours are typically 9 a.m. to 12 noon and 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. and may vary depending on staff availability. Appointments aren’t necessary, but if you are making a special trip to campus, call (605) 642-6361 to make sure we are here. You can also contact Bobbi at [email protected].

Leland D. Case Library for Western Historical Studies: Black Hills State University 1200 University, Unit 9676 Spearfish, SD 57799-9676 605-642-6361 [email protected]

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Friends of Case Library web page www.BHSU.edu/Case Click on Sharp Bits, Cover-April 1963 Sharp Bits, Cover-February 1965 Friends of Case Library on left menu The E.Y. Berry Library-Learning Center: 40 years and going strong 1972 and the State took possession of By Jessica Skorheim the building December 1st. Over the course of Christmas break the library “The E.Y. Berry Library-Learning Center staff and student workers moved the is much more than a functional building. It library material into the new building. is the idea of having all the learning facilities Materials had been housed in the Maude on campus, both print and non-print in one Russell Carter Library in Woodburn Hall location to afford maximum utilization by and a Curriculum Library in Jonas Hall. students, faculty and the community” Materials had also been stored at other – Dr. M.N. Freeman, President of Black sites around campus. Hills State College, May 3, 1972 After a year and a half of construction, the E. Y. Berry Library President Freeman spoke these words opened January 15, 1973. The library was during the dedication of the E. Y. Berry color coordinated with warm shades of Library-Learning Center on May 3, 1972. gold, orange, and brown furniture to Within the first year after his arrival make it a relaxing atmosphere, conducive in 1967, President Freeman realized that to study. In the spirit of making the the campus library needed an upgrade. library a repository of regional history Planning for a new facility began on and culture, the Lyndle Dunn Wildlife June 6, 1968. The proposal was first Art Collection was hung throughout Dedication of the E.Y. Berry Library May taken before the Board of Regents in the library. It remains displayed on the 3rd, 1973, Former U.S. Representative July, 1970. The BOR rejected the plan so E.Y. Berry on the left, Former South Dakota second floor. Originally, there was a it was redrawn and taken to them again Governor Joe Foss at the podium. in 1971. This time they authorized the Continued on next page 4 building of a new library at Black Hills the old Central Hall, more commonly State College. Corner Construction known as “The Lab School”. Central Company of Rapid City was contracted Hall was erected in 1904 to house science as the builder. The library was named classes; it was demolished in September for E.Y. Berry, long-time Congressional 1971. Some of the weathered stones Representative from Western South were salvaged and used to construct Dakota. Following E. Y. Berry’s the entrance to Ida Henton Park. The retirement from Congress in early 1971, foundation for the library was poured he donated his extensive Congressional September 14, 1971. In addition to Collection to Black Hills State College. building a new facility, the collection The valuable historical and research it would contain was expanded. In material is still in the Library-Learning September 1971, the University purchased Center. Researchers can access the a set of 20,000 microbooks, known as the collection in the Case Library. Bob Lee, “The Library of American Civilization,” nationally-recognized historian and and a micromachine for reading the new president of the E. Y. Berry Foundation, microfilm. This addition gave students called the Berry collection of papers, access to resources that are rare and not pictures and other materials a “gold mine held in many libraries. The campus’s of resource information for historians, first computer facility was housed in the students, and social and political Berry Library. The building also contains science writers alike.” The BHSC library a Western Americana Section for the committee chose the name E. Y. Berry in preservation of educational materials honor of Berry’s work as congressman. that relate to every aspect of our area. The South Dakota Board of Regents In addition the library houses an audio- approved it in September 1971. Freeman visual center, educational radio and TV praised the action as a “tribute to a great center. As the library expanded, staff South Dakotan.” After the BOR approved converted the collection classification the name, The E. Y. Berry Foundation was from the Dewey Decimal System to the formed. The Foundation helped Library of Congress system. This was raise money for the completion of the done because the Library of Congress library and assisted the handling of the system makes it easier to locate particular E. Y. Berry Congressional Collection. works in larger and academic libraries. The Library was built on the site of The library was completed in November Men at work on the E.Y. Berry Library 1972. The E.Y. Berry Library-Learning Center Continued from page 3 complex of four rooms on second floor attended the formal that housed micro material, the BHSC dedication. Berry was Archives, the Berry Congressional a U.S. Representative Collection and the South Dakota and for 20 years, from 1951 Western Americana materials. There until 1971. In 1970, were lounges on first floor for faculty and he received the first second floor for students to talk, smoke honorary doctorate and read. These were removed or altered degree bestowed by as the needs of the library and campus BHSC. Speakers at the community changed. dedication included: As part of the opening, library staff keynote speaker, former held an open house on April 3, 1973, state Governor Joe Foss; starting at 7 p.m. Guided tours of the Rev. Arthur Westwood $1.65 million facility were offered to the of the United Church public at 15-minute intervals. Each tour of Christ; Dr. M. N. took an hour. Special guests included Freeman president of The new E.Y. Berry Library in 1972. retired congressman E. Y. Berry, his wife, BHSC; Kay Jorgensen and Mrs. Alice Dunn, the wife of the late BH Student Senate president; Ted after 10:30 a.m. to allow students and artist Lyndle Dunn. Over 200 attended Muster; Dave Miller, a cataloguer of the E. faculty to attend the dedication. the open house. Dr. Edwin Erikson, the Y. Berry papers; John E. Sutton, member Though the methods of delivering director of the center, and Mrs. Doris of the South Dakota Board of Regents; information have changed, after 40 years, Phillips, the library services coordinator, and Al Hall. Berry gave a humble speech, the E.Y. Berry Library-Learning Center chaired the committee that organized and saying,: “Thank you; thank you all; thank is still a dynamic gathering and learning planned the open house. you very much.” After the dedication a space, serving the Black Hills State The E.Y. Berry Library dedication was reception was held to honor Berry and University global community. May 3, 1973. Many friends and associates his family in the Upper Lounge of the ______of E. Y. Berry assembled to honor him Student Center. Guided library tours were Jessica is a student worker in the Case Library. and the dedication of the new Library- offered. The BHSC Woodwind Ensemble, She is a sophomore pursuing an English major Learning Center in named for him. directed by Dr. Richard Temple, provided and a Library Science minor. Hundreds of students and area residents music for the event. Classes were canceled

Charles Rambow Talk To help celebrate National Library Week, the Case Library is hosting a talk by Charles Rambow titled “The KKK in the Black Hills: 1920.” After discovering that his grandparents had been members of the Ku Klux Klan, Rambow became interested in the history of the group’s presence in the Black Hills. This led to him writing his master’s thesis on the topic. He will share his information, exhibits, and unique perspective of these little-known activities. Rambow taught local and American history at Sturgis High School from 1960-1994 and then taught at University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, and later at BHSU. During the summers he served as ranger and naturalist at State Park. He met and learned from many tribal elders. After retiring from teaching, he served as director of the Fort Meade Military Museum for nine years. He has written Ku Klux Klan marching in front of the Duhamel building in Rapid City, in 1927. Photograph Bear Butte: Journeys to the Sacred Mountain from the David Miller Papers in the Leland D. Case Library for Western Historical Studies and the unpublished Sketchbook.. The Loss of a Black Hills’ Friend: In Memory of Watson Parker

by David A. Wolff Black Hills.” During this time, he took On a more personal level, I stumbled a special delight in discovering and across a copy of “Gold in the Black Hills” We were all researching Black Hills ghost towns, no in a Laramie, , bookstore one recently saddened matter if any buildings remained or not. snowy Saturday morning in 1969, and it by the passing of Part of these efforts resulted in the 1974 changed my life. I always liked history Watson Parker. If you publication, “Black Hills Ghost Towns,” and I already loved the Black Hills, and even casually study which he put together with Hugh that book connected those two passions. Black Hills History, Lambert. I then knew that at some point I wanted you know of Parker. But Parker was much more than a to work in Black Hills History. While it His 1966 book, “Gold Black Hills History enthusiast and author. took a few decades for that to happen, it in the Black Hills,” He had that special knack of combining a eventually did, and I thank Watson for is a must read for strong scholarly bent with a folksy style that inspiration. anyone who wishes Watson Parker and dry wit. While he earned a Ph.D. With Parker’s passing, not only has to understand the from the University of Oklahoma and Black Hills History lost a friend, but we , and his 1981 book, taught for over 20 years at the University all have lost a friend. And I assure you “Deadwood: the Golden Years,” still of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, people around that the Case Library will do everything stands as the most comprehensive survey the Hills remember him more for the it can to preserve the book and archival of Deadwood’s past. Parker started his great stories he told and for his quick collections that he and his family have adventures into Black Hills history when turn-of-a-phrase. He always made the entrusted to us. We shall help his legacy his parents purchased Palmer Gulch stories memorable, and he often ended live on. Lodge in 1927. For more than 30 years, he them with: “If it isn’t true, it ought to be.” had a connection to the Lodge, including (I think that’s nearly correct.) writing the “Palmer Gulch Guide to the

Watson Parker Chronological Bibliography

Palmer Gulch Lodge Guide to the Black Hills. “An Illinois Greenhorn in Bismarck, D.T.,” “A Westward Heritage,” South Dakota Rapid City, S.D.: privately printed, 1952, North Dakota History, Vol. 35, No. 1 (1968). History, Vol. 6, No. 3 (Summer 1976). 1953, 1958. Editor, “Report of the Reverend Samuel Editor, “The Report of Captain John Mix “The Exploration of the Dakota Black D. Hinman,” Bits and Pieces, V (November of a Scout to the Black Hills, March-April Hills.” Unpublished Master’s thesis, 1969). 1875,” South Dakota History, Vol. 7, No. 4 University of Oklahoma, 1962. (Fall 1977). “The Causes of American Gold Rushes,” Black Hills Ghost Towns and Others: An North Dakota History, Vol. 36. No. 4 (1969). Assisted compiler Charles Tank, Bits Historical Gazetteer. Norman, Oklahoma: and Pieces: A regional Magazine of Black privately published, 1964. Editor, “A Black Hills Bibliography,” Hills History, edited by Mabel E. Brown at South Dakota Department of History Report Newcastle, Wyoming: A Cross-Referenced Sometimes Wrong But Never Silent: A and Historical Collections, XXXV. Stickney, Index of Volumes 1-11 for the Years, 1966 Collection of Excerpts from the Hill City, S.D.: Argus Printers, 1970. through 1977. Spearfish, S.D.: Friends of S.D. Community Calendar. Wayne, Illinois: the Leland D. Case Library for Western Hugh & Jacqueline Lambert, ca. 1964. “The Majors and the Miners: The Role Historical Studies, Black Hills State of the U.S. Army in the Black Hills Gold College, 1979. “Moods, Memories, and Mirages: The Rush,” Journal of the West, Vol. XI, No. 1 Desert in American Magazines,” American (January 1972). “Booming the Black Hills,” South Dakota West, Vol. 1, No. 4 (1964). History, Vol. 11, No. 1 (Winter 1980). “Some Black Hills Ghost Towns and Their Gold in the Black Hills. Norman: University Origins,” South Dakota History, Vol. 2, No. Deadwood: the Golden Years. Lincoln: of Oklahoma Press, 1966. 2 (Spring 1972). University of Nebraska Press, 1981.

“Gold Before the Gold Rushes,” (Chicago) Authored with Hugh K. Lambert, Black “Military Posts of the Black Hills,” Journal Westerner’s Brand Book, XXII (February Hills Ghost Towns. Chicago: Sage Books, of America’s Military Past, Vol. 28, No. 1 1966). 1974. (August 2001).

“Lost Treasures of the Black Hills,” Bits “Black Hills Ghost Towns,” Journal of the and Pieces, IV, No. 1 (January 1968). West, Vol. 14, No. 2 (April 1975). Local happenings

April 14-20 National Library Week. Theme, Communities Matter @ Your Library

April 18 E.Y. Berry Library Birthday Party, from 9-11 a.m., first floor of the library near the coffee shop.

April 18 Friends of Case Library hosts Chuck Rambo Presentation on the KKK in the Black Hills, 3:30-4:30, Jonas 305

April 26-27 The Dakota Conference – “The Spanish Northern Plains,” Center for Western Studies, Sioux Falls. http://bit.ly/SYQyHI

April 27 Lawrence County Historical Society – Spring Tour, “Whitewood & the Historical Anderson Ranch,” http://bit.ly/151Fbs4

May 3-4, The South Dakota Historical Society Annual Meeting – “Rivers Run Through It: South Dakota’s Rivers and Streams and the Flow of History”, Hilton Garden Inn, Rapid City. http://1.usa.gov/17u3SNp

May 4 South Dakota State Railroad Museum - Reopening for the season. Hours 10:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. http://bit.ly/UE0b20

May 7 Spearfish Area Historical Society – Monthly program, The Mickelson Trail....From the Beginning, by Guy Edwards, Paul Higbee, 7:30 p.m. at the Spearfish Senior Center http://bit.ly/T48UJw

May 25 Days of ’76 Museum Official Grand Opening – Events begin at 9 a.m. with a ribbon-cutting ceremony, followed by free tours of the museum, music of the Cowboy Culture, show by rodeo clown Duane Reichert; and enjoy arts, crafts and children’s games. A chuck wagon lunch will be available for purchase. From 2 p.m. to 5 p.m., old and new timers alike will gather in the Mary Adams Program Room to share their memories of past Days of ‘76 Celebrations and Rodeos. This special “I Remember When” public forum will be recorded for posterity. For more information, call 605-722-4800.

June 28-30 City of Whitewood 125th Anniversary Celebration - Several family-friendly activities are being planned for all three days. Children’s Games, the 2nd Annual Cruise-In, a Parade, 5-K Run, Parade of Homes, just to name a few. For more information contact Mike Weyrich 605.639.1649; City of Whitewood Mayor, Deb Schmidt 269.2247; Chamber of Commerce, Vice President Ron Waldner 605.580.9399; or Audrey Minderman 920.0250.

October 3-5 21st Annual West River History Conference - Call for papers, “War on the Plains: Stories of Conflict Over the Years.” Send you proposal to Shebby Lee at [email protected] Library page a fresh new look http://iis. In September there will be a Case Library Updates BHSU.edu/lis/specColl/. It should make celebration of the Spearfish 125th it much easier for researchers to find out and BHSU 130th Anniversaries. In Roberta Sago, about our collections. preparation for the events, my students Special Collections The Case Library is again involved in have created a list of historic events in Librarian BHSU Outdoor Week. One of my student BHSU history using the book The Friendly workers, Thawney, created a video College. They’ve all enjoyed this task, and presentation showcasing Case Library it has been fun to see them getting excited We’ve been busy in the Case Library. photographs. She placed third in the about the University’s history. Some of Spring semester brings Historiography competition. the topics that have particularly interested students working on their Archives Case Library has spearheaded them are the influenza epidemic of 1919, assignments. They are assigned a portion arranging the E.Y. Berry Library Birthday the KKK presence in the Black Hills, and of the E.Y. Berry Papers and inventory Party. The event will take place during how involved the campus was in the each document in their file(s). We’ve National Library Week, April 18 from WWII war effort. This will be a great tool also had a lot of students from several 9-11 a.m. on the main floor of the for us to use in planning future events American Indian Studies classes coming E.Y. Berry Library. Speakers expected are: and exhibits. in for their research papers. In addition President Schallenkamp, Dr. Custer, and We are grateful for the generosity of to students coming in, we have a steady the first director of the E.Y. Berry Library, several kind donors. Jerry Bryant and stream of off-campus patrons. We love to Ed Erickson. There will be a display on Bob Roberts have given us panoramic have these visitors enjoy the collections the history of the library in the cases on photos of campus. One is from 1927 and that we cherish. the first floor near the coffee shop. shows students and faculty in front of Black Hills Fox interviewed me about Also for National Library Week, the the Science Hall, better known as the Lab the Digital Library South Dakota (DLSD). Case Library is hosting a talk by Chuck School, with Cook Gym and Woodburn It aired March 1, 2013. The interview can Rambow. It is titled “The KKK in the Hall in the background. The other is from be found at: http://www.blackhillsfox. Black Hills: 1920.” It is also scheduled 1943 and shows students and faculty in com/2013/03/01/BHSU-boasts-one-of-the- for April 18 and will begin at 3:30 p.m. in front of Woodburn Hall with Wenona largest-western-history-online-collections. Jonas Hall room 305. Further information Cook Hall in the background. We have We continue to add photographs to this is elsewhere in this newsletter. also received a gift of Lindred Shuttler’s database. We are still working on getting settled papers. The E.Y. Berry Library debuted a into our expanded space. One result of As you see, there is never a dull redesign of its web page. Featured on the rearrangement is that two display moment in the Case Library. Every day the library home page are Case Library cases of material from the E.Y. Berry brings something new; something to photos that are in the DLSD. If you click Papers have been moved to the hallway learn. That is why we do what we do. on the collection name on the lower outside of Case Library where they are And we thank you for your continued left side, it will take you directly to the more visible to all library patrons and interest and support. database. The redesign gave the Case visitors. Some books recently added to the Leland D. Case Library Collection Libby, Orin G. (editor), THE ARIKARA NARRATIVE OF CUSTER’S CAMPAIGN AND THE BATTLE OF THE LITTLE BIGHORN, Norman Oklahoma, University of Oklahoma Press, 2012 Rutter, Michael, BEDSIDE BOOK OF BAD GIRLS OUTLAW WOMEN OF THE AMERICAN WEST, Helena, MT, Farcountry Press, 2008 Abrams, Marc H., SIOUX WAR DISPATCHES REPORTS FROM THE FIELD, 1976-1877, Yardley, Pennsylvania, Westholme Publishing, 2012 Andrews, John, et al, SOUTH DAKOTA OUTLAWS & SCOFFLAWS DID OUTLAWS AND SCANDALOUS ANCESTORS SHAPE SOUTH DAKOTA’S CULTURE?, Yankton, SD, South Dakota Magazine, 2012 Roper, Donna C. and Pauls, Elizabeth P., PLAINS EARTHLODGES ETHNOGRAPHIC AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES, Tuscaloosa, AL, The University of Alabama Press, 2005 Risjord, Norman K., DAKOTA THE STORY OF THE NORTHERN PLAINS, Lincoln & London, University of Nebraska Press, 2012 Simpson, Pamela H., CORN PALACES AND BUTTER QUEENS A HISTORY OF CROP ART AND DAIRY CULTURE, Minneapolis & London, University of Minnesota Press, 2012 Coury, Tina Nichols, HANGING OFF JEFFERSON’S NOSE GROWING UP ON MOUNT RUSHMORE, New York, The Penguin Group, 2012 Robinson, Jane Ewers, PLAINS INDIAN ART THE PIONEERING WORK OF JOHN C. EWERS, Norman Oklahoma, University of Oklahoma Press, 2011 Leland D. Case Library Black Hills State University 1200 University Street, Unit 9059 Spearfish, SD 57799-9059

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