WEB LINKS
https://history.sd.gov/Museum/education.aspx The Museum of the South Dakota State Historical Society offers a variety of education kits on various topics: Homesteading
Cowboy and Ranch Life
South Dakota Immigrantshttp://www.sdhspress.com The South Dakota Historical Society Press publishes and sells a wide variety of South Dakota history-related books. https://history.sd.gov/archives/teachers.aspx The South Dakota State Historical Society Archives offers primary source lessons on homesteading, mining in the Black Hills, and woman suffrage (click on "Teaching with Primary Sources"). https://history.sd.gov/museum/docs/HomesteadingDakota.pdf This guide to a traveling exhibit about homesteading offers insight into the material culture of settlers. https://www.sdhspress.com/journal/south-dakota-history-5-2 This issues of South Dakota History includes an article on railroads and the Great Dakota Boom. https://www.travelsouthdakota.com/trip-ideas/article/prairie-pioneers Travel South Dakota provides a basic outline of pioneer life in the state. http://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/mysteries/auto.html This site details the history of the automobile. http://americanhistory.mrdonn.org/index.html Cowboys, homesteading, and frontier transportation are all covered under the "Western Expansion" heading.