South Dakota
179 stories you can hear on the road. Each dot is one of them.
Across the state
- Deadwood, Where the Law Arrived Late
- Homestake, The Mountain That Made Fortunes
- Mount Rushmore and Crazy Horse, Contested Stone
- South Dakota, The Land and the Argument
- The Badlands, Reading Forty-Seven Million Years
- The Dirty Thirties, The Dust Bowl Years
- The Fort Laramie Treaty and the Gold That Broke It
- The Missouri River Dams, What Went Under
- The Occupation of Wounded Knee, Nineteen Seventy-Three
- The Oceti Sakowin, Seven Council Fires
- The Prairie, What Survived the Plow
- Wounded Knee, December 1890
Near Aberdeen
- Aberdeen, South Dakota: Hub City of the Northern Plains
- Aberdeen: Where Baum Dreamed Up Oz
- Before Oz: L. Frank Baum on the Dakota Prairie
- Before the Rails: The Lakota and Dakota Homeland
- Dacotah Prairie Museum
- Hub City: Aberdeen's Railroad Founding
- Northern State University: Teaching the Plains for Over a Century
- Presentation College: Founded by the Sisters on the Prairie
- Rails Across the Plains: Milwaukee Road and Great Northern
- Storybook Land: Aberdeen Honors Its Unexpected Citizen
- The Blizzard of Eighteen Eighty-Eight and the Drought That Dried the Plains
- The Homestead Boom and Bust of the Eighteen Eighties
- The Wheat Economy: Brown County's Agricultural Engine
Near Custer
- Black Elk Peak: The Highest Point East of the Rockies
- Crazy Horse Memorial: Seventy-Eight Years and One Face
- Crazy Horse Memorial: The Counter-Monument in Progress
- Crazy Horse: The Mountain That Takes a Lifetime
- Custer and the Gold That Started Everything
- Custer State Park: Peter Norbeck's Vision
- Custer, South Dakota: At the Crossroads of the Black Hills
- Jewel Cave: Crystal Walls in Limestone
- Keystone: The Town That Built the Mountain
- Mount Rushmore: Monument and Argument
- Mount Rushmore: Six Grandfathers
- Mount Rushmore: The Monument and What It Replaced
- Mount Rushmore: The Six Grandfathers
- Rockerville: Rockers, Flumes, and a Famous Editor
- The Bison of Custer State Park
- The Bison That Came From the Bronx
- The Breathing Hole: Wind Cave and the Lakota Origin
- The Cave Breathes and the Numbers Prove It
- The Needles Highway: A Road That Refused to Be Practical
- The Treaty, the Taking, and the Billion Dollars Nobody Will Touch
- Wind Cave Bison: A Living Rescue
- Wind Cave: Where the Earth Breathes
Near Interior
- Ben Reifel: From Rosebud to Congress
- Buffalo Gap National Grassland
- Buffalo Gap National Grassland: The Rim of the Badlands and the Land the Government Bought Back
- How the Badlands Became a Park
- Interior: The Smallest Gateway to the Strangest Landscape
- The Badlands: Seventy-Five Million Years Exposed
- The Black-footed Ferret Comes Back to Conata Basin
- The CCC and Cedar Pass Lodge
- The North Unit: Bombs in the Badlands
- The White River: Carrying the Badlands to the Missouri
- Thirty Million Years of Mammals: The Oligocene Fossil Beds
Near Pierre
- Fort Pierre Chouteau: Hub of the Plains Fur Trade
- Fort Pierre: Fur Trade Capital of the Northwest
- Fort Pierre: The Town That Kept the Name
- Oahe Dam: A Great Reservoir, a Greater Loss
- Pierre, South Dakota, Midpoint of a Continent
- Pierre: The Capital at the Center of Everything
- South Dakota's Capitol: The Prairie's Copper Crown
- Steam on the Missouri: Boats, Trains, and a Town Overnight
- The Arikara: Lords of the Missouri
- The Bad River Confluence
- The Capital Fight: Pierre Wins by Geography
- The Cultural Heritage Center
- The Lakota and the Missouri
- The Lead Plate: France Claims the Plains
- The South Dakota State Capitol
- The Standoff at the Bad River
- The Verendrye Lead Plate: France Claims the Plains
Near Sioux Falls
- Baltic, South Dakota, Three Names, One Town
- Bloody Friday: The Day the Packers Sent Men With Oak Clubs
- Crooks, South Dakota, New Hope, Renamed
- EROS: The Satellite Archive in the Cornfield
- Falls Park: Where the City Keeps Coming Back
- Fort Sod to Fort Dakota: The Town That Had to Start Twice
- SculptureWalk: The City That Resets Its Art Every May
- Senator Pettigrew: The Man Who Built the City and Then Broke With It
- Tea, South Dakota, Named for Nothing in Particular
- The Arc of Dreams: A Gap Eighty Feet Above the River
- The Battleship South Dakota: Most Decorated Ship of the War
- The Cathedral of Saint Joseph: Prairie Romanesque
- The Deal That Rewired American Credit
- The Divorce Colony
- The Oceti Sakowin and the River They Named
- The Penitentiary on the Bluff: Prisoners Who Built Their Own Walls
- The Queen Bee Mill: A Monument to Overconfidence
- The Rock That Is One Point Six Billion Years Old
Near Wall
- Badlands: The Wall at the Edge of the Plains
- Minuteman Missile: The Capsule Beneath the Prairie
- Prairie Dogs and the Architecture of the Grassland
- Prairie Homestead: The Sod House That Survived
- Sage Creek Wilderness: Where the Bison Still Roam
- The Badlands and the Edge of the Plains
- The Badlands: Mako Sica and the Sea Beneath the Prairie
- The Dust Bowl Years in Western South Dakota
- The Great Sioux Reservation and the Land That Was Opened
- The Homesteaders Who Came and Left
- Wall Drug: How Free Ice Water Built an Empire
- Wall Drug: The Billboard That Wouldn't Stop
- Wall: The Town at the Edge of Two Worlds
- Wasta, South Dakota
Along the way
- Beresford: Named for a British Admiral
- Black Elk: Vision and Witness
- Black Hills National Cemetery
- Calamity Jane: The Legend vs. the Woman
- Dakota Wesleyan: College Built While Living in Sod
- Deadwood's Gold Rush: The Town Built on Treaty Land
- Dinosaur Park: The WPA's Concrete Beasts
- Dupree: Heart of the Cheyenne River Reservation
- Eagle Butte: Heart of the Cheyenne River Sioux Nation
- Elk Point: First Vote West of the Mississippi
- Ellsworth Air Force Base: Cold War Shield on the Plains
- Ellsworth Air Force Base: The Showplace of the Air Force
- Faith: Where Sue the T. Rex Was Found
- Faulkton: The County Seat That Outlasted Its Rival
- Fort Meade: After the Little Bighorn
- Frawley Ranch: Frontier Cattle Country
- Gettysburg, South Dakota: A Veterans Colony Finds Its Name
- Grand River National Grassland: Sitting Bull Country and the Land Between the Reservations
- Herreid, South Dakota
- Home of the Second Corn Palace
- Hot Springs: The Spa Town That Found Mammoths
- Lead and the Homestake Mine
- Manchester, South Dakota
- Milbank Grist Mill
- Minnesela: The Town the Railroad Killed
- Mission: Heart of the Rosebud
- Missouri River Bridges of South Dakota
- Murdo, South Dakota: The Highway Crossroads
- Newell: Water and the Opening of the Butte County Plains
- Onida, South Dakota
- Pactola: The Town Under the Lake
- Paha Sapa: The Lakota Heart of the Black Hills
- Pine Ridge: Poverty as Policy Outcome
- Pine Ridge: The Oglala Lakota Nation Today
- Porter Sculpture Park
- Rapid City: Gateway Carved from Stolen Ground
- Rapid City: Gateway to the Hills
- Redfield: Railroad Crossroads and County Seat Prize
- Selby, South Dakota
- Sinte Gleska University: Lakota Higher Education
- Sitting Bull: The Assassination at Standing Rock, December 15, 1890
- South Dakota Air and Space Museum
- Spearfish Canyon: Four Hundred Million Years in Nineteen Miles
- Spearfish, South Dakota: The Canyon Town That Fed the Gold Rush
- Standing Rock, 2016: Water, Dogs, and Treaty Law
- Sturgis: Ten Days That Swallow a City
- Terraville: The Town Homestake Ate
- The 1868 Treaty: What In Perpetuity Was Worth
- The Alex Johnson Hotel: A Prairie Palace Turns One Hundred
- The Billion-Dollar Check No One Will Cash
- The City of Presidents
- The Corn Palace: Mitchell Decorates Its Walls with the Harvest
- The Custer Expedition: The Survey That Started a War
- The D.C. Booth National Fish Hatchery
- The Dead Man's Hand: Deadwood, August Two, Eighteen Seventy-Six
- The Fort Laramie Treaty and the Gold Rush Betrayal
- The Ghost Dance and the Stronghold: What the Badlands Witnessed
- The Ghost Dance: A Prayer the Government Read as a Threat
- The Greenway: What the Flood Left Behind
- The Mitchell Corn Palace: An Annual Monument to Agriculture
- The Night Rapid Creek Killed Two Hundred Thirty-Eight
- The Seven Council Fires: Oceti Sakowin as a Living Nation
- Theophile Bruguier Monument
- Watertown: Where the First Governor Got His Start
- White River: Mellette County's Late-Born Seat
- Winner, South Dakota: The Town That Won the Railroad
- World's Largest Pheasant
- Wounded Knee, 1973: The Seventy-One Days
- Wounded Knee, December 29, 1890: The Three Hundred at the Creek
- Wounded Knee: December Twenty-Ninth, Eighteen Ninety
- Wounded Knee: The Massacre South of Here
- Wounded Knee: Two Moments That Shook America