Black Hills hay camp: Images and perspectives of early Rapid City

BLACK HILLS HAY CAMP: IMAGES & PERSPECTIVES OF EARLY RAPID CITY, SOUTH DAKOTA by Dave Strain is an illustrated, photo-oriented historical look at Rapid City, which was the gateway to the Black Hill's gold mining towns of Deadwood & Lead from its inception in 1876 during the Black Hill's Gold rush days to approximately 1934. Classic photos from the 1800s to 1934 by the Black Hill's frontier photographers are the centerpiece of this cloth-bound historical publication. The author utilizes prominent frontier photographers of the area to weave a historical perspective of Rapid City from its ox-team, freighting days of the gold rush period of the Black Hills to the summer White House of President Calvin Coolidge in Rapid City & the Aerospace age world record-setting balloon flight altitude records of the late 1920s & early 1930s in the Rapid City area. Frontier wet-plate photographers, Pioneer artist Grace French, newspaper accounts & narrative trace & document the building of the Black Hill's frontier town of Rapid City emanating from the General George A. Armstrong 1874 & Jenny military escorted 1875 Expeditions which confirmed gold strikes that triggered the settling of the area. To order contact - Dakota West Books, 402 East Custer St., Rapid City, SD 57701. Phone: 605-348-1075 - FAX: 605-348-0615.Strain, Dave is the author of 'Black Hills hay camp: Images and perspectives of early Rapid City' with ISBN 9780912410104 and ISBN 0912410108.