The Black Hills
MID-CONTINENT RESORT
BY Albert N. Williams
AMERICAN RESORT SERIES NO. 4
Southern Methodist University Press
1952
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AMERICAN RESORT SERIES
- No. 1: Gatlinburg: Gateway to the Great Smokies, by Edwin J. Foscue
- No. 2: Taxco: Mexico’s Silver City, by Edwin J. Foscue
- No. 3: Estes Park: Resort in the Rockies, by Edwin J. Foscue and Louis O. Quam
- No. 4: The Black Hills: Mid-Continent Resort, by Albert N. Williams
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Acknowledgments
The research on early Black Hills and Badlands historywas ably assisted by Miss June Carothers,whose services were provided the author through agenerous grant-in-aid by the University of Denver’sBureau of Humanities and Social Development.
Miss Ina T. Aulls, Mrs. Alys Freeze, Mrs. OpalHarber, Miss Margery Bedinger, Mrs. MargaretSimonds, Mrs. Elizabeth Kingston, and Mrs. ClaraCutright, all of the Denver Public Library, are particularlyto be thanked for placing the resources ofthat institution at my disposal.
For assistance in preparing the manuscript, I wishto thank Miss Helen Kiamos, Miss Edith Goldfarb,and Miss Lillian Helling.
I am indebted to Bell Photo of Rapid City for thephotograph of the Needles highway; to Ned Perrigoueof Rapid City for that of Sylvan Lake; to theDenver Public Library Western Collection for thoseof Calamity Jane, Wild Bill Hickok, and DeadwoodGulch in 1881; and to Mr. A. H. Pankow of theSouth Dakota State Highway Commission for thatof a Black Hills stream.
And finally, as always, thanks go to my wife, Ann,for her patient editorial help.
Albert N. Williams
University of Denver
Denver, Colorado
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