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Laura Ingalls Wilder A Writer’s Life Pamela Smith Hill Volume One in the South Dakota Biography Series 244 pages, 4.5 x 8 inches 13 b/w photographs and illustrations, bibliography, index ISBN 978-0-9777955-6-7 paper, $12.95 ISBN 978-0-9846505-4-5 ebook (epub/mobi), $8.95 2007 (C)
Delve inside Laura Ingalls Wilder’s life and work
Winner, Scholarly Nonfiction —WILLA Award, 2008 Winner, Biography—National Indie Excellence Book Awards, 2008 “A fascinating and remarkable book that deserves a place on the shelf of every Laura fan.”—The Homesteader “Pamela Smith Hill has [created] a work of considerable scholarship and insight.” —The Little House Heritage Trust “Hill skillfully examines the complex relationship between Wilder and her daughter.”—Kansas History “If you’ve ever wanted to peek behind the scenes of the “Little House” series, this is your book. . . . [It] is a page turner.” —Roundup Magazine Pamela Smith Hill examines Wilder’s tumultuous, but ultimately successful, professional and personal relationship with her daughter, Rose Wilder Lane, providing a context, both familial and literary, for Wilder’s writing career.
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Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane Deadwood Legends
Seth Bullock Black Hills Lawman
James D. McLaird
David A. Wolff
Volume Two in the South Dakota Biography Series 150 pages, 4.5 x 8 inches 17 b/w photographs and illustrations, bibliography, index ISBN 978-0-9777955-9-8 paper, $12.95 ISBN 978-0-9846505-6-9 ebook (epub/mobi), $8.95 2008 (C)
Volume Three in the South Dakota Biography Series 204 pages, 4.5 x 8 inches 14 b/w photographs, bibliography, index ISBN 978-0-9798940-5-3 paper, $12.95 ISBN 978-0-9846505-5-2 ebook (epub/mobi), $8.95 2009 (ML)
Wild West legends debunked
Finalist, Foreword Magazine Book of the Year Awards, 2010
“This is an interesting, professional, and well-written study. —Great Plains Quarterly “A fascinating read for anyone who wants to learn about how the daring real-life deeds (and misdeeds) of Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane were destined to grow beyond imagination through the telling.”—Midwest Book Review
Unheralded figure in the development of the Black Hills
A “fine biography”—Annals of Wyoming “Seth Bullock: Black Hills Lawman is highly recommended for persons interested in western lawmen, the Black Hills, the Deadwood television series, and, in fact, anyone looking for an informative book to read.”—South Dakota History
“McLaird’s writing is concise and to the point, exploding myths about two Western characters.”—LibraryThing.com reviewer
“This is an excellent addition to any Western history collection, whether personal or library.”—Amazon.com reviewer
Although Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane spent only a few weeks in Deadwood at the same time, they have become intertwined and their relationship legendary.
“This book [should] be on the bookshelf of anyone interested not only in South Dakota’s history, but the history of the Wild West.”—Wild West History Association Journal
James D. McLaird examines the contemporary accounts that turned these two Wild West wanderers into dime-novel and motion-picture stars and made them stalwarts of Deadwood mythology.
In Seth Bullock: Black Hills Lawman, David Wolff examines the life work of Bullock as he helped build Deadwood, found the town of Belle Fourche, and promote the Black Hills.
James D. McLaird is professor emeritus of history at Dakota Wesleyan University. He is the author of books and articles focusing on the Black Hills and the American West.
David A. Wolff is dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Black Hills State University in Spearfish, South Dakota. He is an award-winning author focusing on Black Hills, South Dakota, mining, and western history.
Pamela Smith Hill is an award-winning author. She grew up in Missouri and started her writing career in South Dakota.
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