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• The Cattleman’s Friend

  Published: August 30, 2007, 11:27 am

  Tags: South Dakota, East River, Yankton

  Gale Sohler, at the steak fry. Gale Sohler has been a good friend to cattlemen throughout the Dakotas, Nebraska, Wyoming and Montana for 40 years, and on Tuesday he and the Sohler family celebrated all their years in the livestock auction business with a big steak fry at the Stockmen’s Livestock Auction which is just [...]

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• High Flying Photographer

  Published: March 7, 2008, 11:11 am

  Tags: Yankton, East River, South Dakota

  Dave Tunge of Yankton shot the picture of his

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• A ‘Wild Bill’ Remembrance

  Published: May 20, 2008, 3:50 pm

  Tags: Yankton, Culture, Black Hills, South Dakota

  You might say that Wild Bill Hickok gave his very life for South Dakota tourism. Not willingly, of course. But his death during a Deadwood poker game on August 2, 1876, has grown to become one of the signature events in our Old West culture. Hickok surely would have preferred to live out his life [...]

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• Take Your Sweetie

  Published: June 4, 2008, 10:09 am

  Tags: Yankton, East River, South Dakota

  Looking for something unique this weekend? How about treating your sweetie to a a movie at the Miller Drive-In Theater? It’s one of just five such venues still showing films in South Dakota, and will be celebrating its 55th anniversary June 6-9. The Miller Press has a great article. Very well written. According to the [...]

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• Yankton’s Herefordshire Connection

  Published: July 17, 2008, 2:52 pm

  Tags: Yankton, Culture, South Dakota

  We’ve restored three old brick houses built by Territorial Gov. John Pennington, and use them here at South Dakota Magazine. Bob Hanson (above), a talented old-school bricklayer, helps us to keep the exteriors in shape. On the first day he worked here, he found an initialed brick in the fireplace and exclaimed that the houses [...]

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• Show-offs of the Missouri

  Published: July 30, 2008, 4:02 pm

  Tags: Yankton, Culture, South Dakota

  It’s quite a sight. The bird actually what you see from the ground is a beak and two huge wings floats high over the water. Is it dozing in thin air? And then, using the very laws of gravity that didn’t apply a moment earlier, those wings dive into the water … a [...]

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• Want a Crowd? Talk Wind!

  Published: August 8, 2008, 12:11 pm

  Tags: Yankton, South Dakota

  Yankton’s youth called a meeting Thursday night and 100 people showed up in the Methodist Church meeting room. That’s 100 people on a beautiful August night when people could have been boating, gardening, barbecuing or a dozen other things. Instead they came to a meeting. The subject? Wind energy. I was mildly shocked. How often do 100

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• Ospreys in Good Hands

  Published: August 12, 2008, 12:42 pm

  Tags: Yankton, East River, South Dakota

  Today we posted a Photo Gallery on the Web site of the osprey restoration project underway in South Dakota. The effort is headed by Jane Fink Cantwell, an Idahoan who runs a raptor refuge called Birds of Prey Northwest. Earlier this year, she gained lots of attention when she succeeded in a two-year quest to rebuilt [...]

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