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South Dakota. Geography of South Dakota, History of South Dakota, Demographics of South Dakota, Transportation in South Dakota, List of South Dakota numbered highways, Government of South Dakota, Governor of South Dakota, South Dakota Senate, South Dakota House of Representatives, List of United States Senators from South Dakota, Political party strength in South Dakota, List of cities in South Dakota, List of counties in South Dakota, List of colleges and universities in South Dakota, List of high schools in South Dakota. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This glorious state-by-state panorama of America's past and present helps young readers understand how the development of each state fits into the grand mosaic of America's history.Graphic delights greet the eye with every turn of the page.Includes a reference section, maps, a glossary, and an index. ... Read more

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A fun and informative journey through South Dakota!
Yacowitz artfully weaves a rich tapestry out of the geography, history, people, and culture of South Dakota. Humor, fascinating facts, and colorful stories highly recommend this entertaining resource for children, parents, libraries, and teachers. ... Read more

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"A book of stories, a book of prayer, a book to be read meditatively and well," DAKOTA offers a timeless tribute to a place in the American landscape that is at once desolate and sublime, harsh and forgiving, steeped in history and myth. From the award-winning author of AMAZING GRACE, DAKOTA is Kathleen Norris at her most thoughtful, her most discerning, her best. She gives us, once again, a rare "gift of hope and balance, a place to begin" (Chicago Tribune) and assurance that wherever we go, we chart our own spiritual geography.Amazon.com Review
After 20 years of living in the "Great American Outback," asNewsweek magazine once designated the Dakotas, poet KathleenNorris (The CloisterWalk) came to understand the fascinating ways that peoplebecome metaphors for the land they inhabit. When trying to understandthe polarizing contradictions that exist in the Dakotas between"hospitality and insularity, change and inertia, stability andinstability.... between hope and despair, between open hearts andclosed minds," Norris draws a map. "We are at the point of transitionbetween east and west in the United States," she explains,"geographically and psychically isolated from either coast, and unlikeeither the Midwest or the desert west."

Like Terry Tempest Williams (Refuge), Norrisunderstands how the boundary between inner and outer scenery begins toblur when one is fully present in the landscape of their lives. As aresult, she offers the geography lesson we all longed for inschool. This is a poetic, noble, and often funny (see her discussionon the foreign concept of tofu) tribute to Dakota, including itsNative Americans, Benedictine monks, ministers and churchgoers,wind-weathered farmers, and all its plain folks who live suchcomplicated and simple lives. --Gail Hudson ... Read more

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A Disappointment for Me
I greatly anticipated this books arrival. I too live on the lonesome, wide open, windyplains and hoped to find a kindred spirit in her description of the place I call home. Instead it seems that she is inclined to paint her fellow neighbors with a wide brush....(in her view it seems that way too many of them have a resentment of ANYONE who has a professional title, from teacher to minister and all in between, to the point that those individuals, according to her, often downplay their level of knowledge or education) and though I am a religious person myself, I grew VERY tired of her continual comparisons of herexperiences at her local monastary with everything in life. If you are a fan of reading about theBenedictine monks and their life, with small samplings of landscape descriptions and generalizations of all the small mindedfolks in her town, you might like this one. But, forme, it is one of the few books that I will give up on this year.

Love it or Leave It
This book is a patchwork of writings, many previously published, inviting us to visit the plains of North America. Many of the pieces effectively transport you there -- to small towns set apart under the big sky, remote enough to challenge our cultural concepts.Others are more personal, taking you on the author's "spiritual journey," and in these you meet Kathleen Norris the seeker.I'm not sure if it all came together as she intended. I learned things I didn't know about the sparsely settled plains states of our country.If you also want to explore some inner territory, you might like this book.

Benedictines and small town living
This book came recommended to me during a spiritual retreat.I found it a thought provoking read in prayerfully reviewing my spiritual direction, as well as informative on small town, prairie living in a place dying, but unwilling to embrace outsiders.It also provided alot of information on the Benedictine monasteries. I took my time reading it and the book will be one I long remember.

America's own "Rub Al Khali"...
In Saudi Arabia there is a vast area, almost a fourth of the country, known as "The Empty Quarter," (Rub Al Khali), with perhaps a thousand permanent residents. It is the lack of good water that makes permanent inhabitation practically impossible. America has a similar region, although the conditions are not as dire. It is the area between the 100th and 105th meridian, roughly spanning a seventy-fifth of the world's circumference. Due to the lack of sufficient rainfall (less than 20 inches per year), John Wesley Powell (as well as others) said that the land should never be tilled. It was; one of the "fallouts" was the Dustbowl days of the `30's. Today, those who have not emigrated face a hard-scrabble existence, with the remaining farmers tapping deeper and deeper into the Ogallala aquifer. The area is called the High Plains, largely pancake flat, has strong winds, and unlike Saudi Arabia, particularly in the Dakotas, it can be bitter cold.

Why would anyone voluntarily move there? Kathleen Norris did. She left a life in New York City, and embraced the austere bleakness that is northwest South Dakota. Many of her friends were flabbergasted at the move, and this book is largely an answer to why she did it. There are three principal subject matters: the environment, which encompasses the land and the weather; the kind of people who struggle to live there; and, as indicated by the subtitle, "a spiritual geography," dollops of philosophical musings. Norris has brief chapters entitled "Weather Report", with a given date, and generally the reports are not surprises, save, perhaps, the extremes that they can cover. Early in the book she assesses the dynamic tensions and contradictions in the people with a: "...between hospitality and insularity....between open hearts and closed minds." Later she says: "Small-town society often reminds me of the old joke about academic politics--they're so vicious because there so little at stake." And one of the sadder observations that she makes, and counterintuitive in some ways, since you would figure that it is the remote places that reading is more likely alternative: "Many teachers here also seem to give up any thought of lifelong learning... why so many adults in a town like Lemmon stop reading. More than once I've been surprised to discover that people who show no sign that they've ever read a book in their lives, are in fact former teachers, college graduates from the days when an education was said to mean something." She fleshes out these general observations with pithy vignettes involving the very real people of the town.

Concerning how the inhabitants relate to the past, Norris says: "One popular form of writing on the Plains is the local history. These books reveal a great deal about the people who write them but do not often tell the true story of the region... As one old-timer told me, `people have been writing it the way they wished it had been instead of the way it was.'"But it this a "differential diagnosis" of the region's people, or a broader observation on how much of history is written?

As to the philosophical musings, her erudition shines through, and her referential points bounce from Gregory of Nyssa in the 4th century to Carl Jung. Fitting for a place with `spiritual geography', she becomes involved with a nearby Benedictine monastery, and mentions the tales of Heloise and Abelard, when the "monk's face brightens, almost innocently, as he says, "It was the Benedictines who castrated him, you know.'" One might assume it was time to move on!Some of her spiritual geography might be too "new age" for some readers, but I was able to suspend some of my natural cynicism, and reflect on the impact of that "infinite horizon."

So few people live in this area, and only a hand-full have Norris's knowledge and perspective, which is the real strength of this book. Particularly for those on the coasts, looking out their windows as they do indeed "fly over," this book would make their journey much more insightful.

Plains Ponderings
'Dakota' was somewhat rambling but had several good nuggets of thought about how location affects our outlook.Broadens the mind to stretch now and then. ... Read more

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A brief introduction to the geography, history, natural resources, industries, cities, and people of the Mt. Rushmore state, South Dakota. ... Read more

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South Dakota is home to an endless supply of American history and Americana. Did you know the world's largest drug store calls Wall, South Dakota home? Or, did you know that the triceratops was one of the state's earliest settlers? What about the prairie the Ingalls family called home? Also in South Dakota! These fascinating tidbits and many more are found in our March release-M is for Mount Rushmore: A South Dakota Alphabet. The state's charm and significance in American folklore goes beyond those four presidents in the moutainside and it's all captured here in our South Dakota alphabet. ... Read more

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Webster's bibliographic and event-based timelines are comprehensive in scope, covering virtually all topics, geographic locations and people. They do so from a linguistic point of view, and in the case of this book, the focus is on "South Dakota," including when used in literature (e.g. all authors that might have South Dakota in their name). As such, this book represents the largest compilation of timeline events associated with South Dakota when it is used in proper noun form. Webster's timelines cover bibliographic citations, patented inventions, as well as non-conventional and alternative meanings which capture ambiguities in usage. These furthermore cover all parts of speech (possessive, institutional usage, geographic usage) and contexts, including pop culture, the arts, social sciences (linguistics, history, geography, economics, sociology, political science), business, computer science, literature, law, medicine, psychology, mathematics, chemistry, physics, biology and other physical sciences. This "data dump" results in a comprehensive set of entries for a bibliographic and/or event-based timeline on the proper name South Dakota, since editorial decisions to include or exclude events is purely a linguistic process. The resulting entries are used under license or with permission, used under "fair use" conditions, used in agreement with the original authors, or are in the public domain. ... Read more

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Chapters: Political Party Strength in South Dakota, United States Congressional Delegations From South Dakota, South Dakota Republican Party. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 23. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The following table indicates the party of elected officials in the U.S. state of South Dakota: The table also indicates the historical party composition in the: For years in which a presidential election was held, the table indicates which party's candidate received the state's electoral votes. The parties are as follows: Democratic (D), Independent (I), Populist (P), Republican (R), and a tie or coalition within a group of elected officials. ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=18044529 ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Cities of the United States, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 154 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Provides a wide range of hard-to-locate data to answer questions concerning American cities. Includes thorough coverage of the area's largest or fastest-growing cities, or those with a particular historical, political, industrial or commercial significance. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Cities of the United States, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 142 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Provides a wide range of hard-to-locate data to answer questions concerning American cities. Includes thorough coverage of the area's largest or fastest-growing cities, or those with a particular historical, political, industrial or commercial significance. ... Read more