BENDING THE TWIG a memoir by Kenneth Goetz. The story of a boy growing up on the Dakota Prairie (Potter and Sully Counties) during the Depression and World War II.
WHILE THE COYOTE HOWLS Written in 1933 by Alice McDonald Edmunds (Mrs. Andrew Edmunds) -- about her family and life in Potter County. Full text in 63 pages is available via email attachment. 63 pages. Request by emailing the library at pclibrary@venturecomm.net
BREAKING SOD ON THE PRAIRIES by Clarence Wilbur Taber. Historical fiction account of Taber's homesteading experience in Potter County. The World Book Company as part of their “In Pioneer Life Series” published it in 1924. Taber grew to adulthood in Potter County where he became a banker, married the daughter of one of Gettysburg's founders, and had three children. By 1900, Taber, dissatisfied with banking, moved his family to Minneapolis, but he never forgot South Dakota.While the BREAKING SOD book is invaluable to Potter County history, it is not the book for which Taber is best known. Long before BREAKING SOD was written, he wrote TABER'S MEDICAL DICTIONARY FOR NURSES. It was this book that brought him to the attention of the F.A. Davis Company where his dictionary was published as TABER'S CYCLOPEDIC MEDICAL DICTIONARY. It was an instant success, has become the standard for nurses, and is now in its 20th edition.Taber died in 1968. His portrait still hangs in the boardroom at the F.A. Davis Company in Philadelphia, PA. and the history of the company devotes an entire chapter to his life.
THE WORK OF WOLVES by Kent Meyers. SD fiction set in the Badlands. SD author. A four-star recommendation.
LeBEAU by Dale and Mary Lewis. True story of the once flourishing cattle town of LeBeau, South Dakota and the murder that ended its reign as railroad king. Its location between Gettysburg and Mobridge is now under the waters of Lake Oahe. Consultant for the book was Gettysburg rancher Clint Parker
Excerpt from THE BATTLE OF SHILOH by Samuel M. Howard, who lived through it. p 130 "Again I hear the roar and crash of guns, 'til the whole earth rocks beneath it. .... Again I see brave General Peabody wage the unequal strife of one small brigade against two corps of the enemy and fall dead from his horse just as the enemy swarms around both flanks of the Sixth Division ... The past rises before me when the ominous hour of 10 o'clock overtakes the combatants, when more than 80,000 men, with 300 great guns and 80,000 muskets, wage the deadliest great battle of all time; 'til more than 26,000 soldiers fall upon that fearful field, either killed or wounded, while everywhere the very flesh is quivering on the bones of both the living and the dead ... Again I see and hear the screaming and bursting of shells and the closing in of the dreadful circling walls of brimstone fire -- flash on flash, flash on flash, flash on flash ... Again I hear the heartrending appeals for help by the mangled and dying .... Again I see the whole Peach Orchard where General Albert Sidney Johnston fell, so thickly carpeted with dead that one can walk in any direction stepping on the bodies of the dead all the time, without a foot touching the ground."
LOCAL HISTORY / GENEALOGY / FAMILY HISTORY
> 75 YEARS OF PROGRESS 1883-1958 : HOVEN, SOUTH DAKOTA
> 75th ANNIVERSARY, LEBANON, SOUTH DAKOTA
> 903rd REUNION – video 1997
> A TALE OF THREE FAMILIES by Elizabeth G. Longstreth -- Gillpatrick genealogy
> AGAR, SD, CENTENNIAL PHOTOS & INFORMATION from Edna Falkenhagen Smith Collection, compiled by Georga Sutton
> ALUMNI DIRECTORY : GETTYSBURG HIGH SCHOOL : 2000
> AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF WILLIAM BOERGER
> BREAKING SOD ON THE PRAIRIES by Clarence W. Taber - historical fiction set in Arena Township, Potter County, SD
> BULKLEY COMMUNITY
> Buller Family
> CATHEDRAL OF THE PRAIRIE - video
> CATTLE ON A THOUSAND HILLS – Sutton Ranch history
> CEMETERY RECORDS FOR POTTER COUNTY, SD
> CLARENCE WILBUR TABER, AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY
> DAKOTA COWBOY by Ike Blasingame - nonfiction -- life at the time of the Matador Land and > Cattle Company between Gettysburg, SD and Eagle Butte, SD.
> DESCENDANTS OF GEORGE & CAROLINE JELI 1845-1991 by Michael and Dianne Jeli – genealogy
> DESTINATION GETTYSBURG – video
> DIAMOND JUBILEE 1886-1961, BOWDLE, SD
> DuFLOTH Family History by Beulah M. DuFloth White
> ELIDA TOWNSHIP by Rella Frankhauser McIntosh
> GETTYSBURG 1883-2008 SLIDE SHOW created by Dakota Sunset Museum
> GETTYSBURG CENTENNIAL STYLE SHOW – 1983 -- video
> GETTYSBURG: THE LEGACY LIVES ON -- video
> GETTYSBURG SOUTH DAKOTA 75TH ANNIVERSARY 1883-1958 – history
> GRANDPA AND GRANDMA MILLAR’S BIG HOUSE BY STONE LAKE by Millar – genealogy
> History of Sutton Ranch by Matt Sutton
> HOMESTEAD ATLAS, POTTER COUNTY
> HOVEN ALL FAITH CENTENNIAL - video
> HOVEN SOUTH DAKOTA 1883-1983 – history
> HOVEN, SOUTH DAKOTA - 25 YEAR SUPPLEMENT, 1983-2008, QUASQUICENTENNIAL CELEBRATION
> IN THE SPIRIT OF McKAYLA by Vonnie Reuer and Rhonda Strouckel – music cassette
> POTTER COUNTY IN THIS WORLD WAR 1917-1918- 1919 - history
> INGA by Harold W. Anderson - Jordeth genealogy
> JORDETH by Inga Jordeth Haanstad -- genealogy
> LEBANON S.D. 1884-1984 – history
> LEBANON, SD - 125th CELEBRATION - home video by Merlyn Schutterle
> LEBANON CEMETERY
> LeBEAU, A SPUTTERING GLAME by Dale and Mary Lewis
> Life Story of Heinrich Buller and His Wife Agnetha Duerksen Buller by William Buller
> LOOK BACK ONCE IN AWHILE by Ed Carlson -- memoirs
> LOWRY, SD 1907 - 1007; A PHOTO ESSAY by Ken Vogele & Lowryites
> MAGNIFICENT CHURCHES ON THE PRAIRIE by Coomber
> NOLD FAMILY, THE by Mary Ragatz Alexander - genealogy
> OBITUARY BOOK, POTTER COUNTY – 1883 to present
> OLIVER FAMILY HISTORY
> PIONEER ON THE PRAIRIE: THE LIFE OF IVAR SANDBERG by Gilbert Ivar Sandberg
> POTTER COUNTY PEOPLE PICTURES and PROGRESS : 1883-1983 – history of Gettysburg
> Prairie Minister's Wife by Arlue Nix Thomas
> Rausch Family http://www.rl-anc.com/index.php http://www.rauschherefords.com/
> RECIPES FOR THE HEART, THE HEARTH, THE HOME by children of Nick and Catherine Rausch – recipes and history
> SUN RISES WITH THE HOVENS by Jeannette L. Anderson and committee -- history of Hoven Family and related families in Potter County, SD.
> SUTTON BOOK - genealogy
> THE FRANSEN FAMILY by Darrell Fransen -- genealogy
> THE LAST BRIDGE and A DISTANT PROMISE – both by Elvera Ziebart Reuer – WWII history
> TOLSTOY DIAMOND JUBILEE HISTORICAL BOOK 1982
> TURKEY RED by Frances Gilchrist Wood - historical fiction> VAN BOCKEL FAMILY - genealogy
> VETERANS OF THE CIVIL WAR WHO SETTLED IN POTTER COUNTY DAKOTA TERRITORY by Winifred Fawcett and Thelma Hepper. ** Index online at Veterans book index
> WE ARE AMERICANS by Marion Cronin Crowley - genealogy
> WHAT YOU CAN DO WITH FIFTY CENTS by Ernie Nagel -- memoirs 1915-1980
> WHEN THE SOUTH WIND BLEW SOFTLY by Gertrude E. Flyte -- memoirs 1890-1973
> Online Potter County Database
Included in the vertical file information about the history of Potter County ---- Falk Family of North Riverside Township,
Courthouse, Appomattox Township, Flood at Appomattox in 1890, Forest
City, Gorman, Homestead Records, (separate book of Homestead Records
Index), Hoven burials, LeBeau Community, Mary Duenwald Arbach Hoven,
Turkey Red by Frances Gilchrist Wood, Tolstoy, Schools Rural, R E A &
Cam-Wal, Medicine Rock,
Your Potter County ancestor just might be included in one of the books below....
Doane Robinson's Encyclopedia of South Dakota, c1925
HISTORY OF DAKOTA TERRITORY by George W. Kingsbury / SOUTH DAKOTA ITS
HISTORY AND ITS PEOPLE edited by George Martin Smith, Vol. I, S.J.
Clarke Publishing, c1915
HISTORY OF DAKOTA TERRITORY by George W. Kingsbury / SOUTH DAKOTA ITS
HISTORY AND ITS PEOPLE edited by George Martin Smith, Vol. 2, S.J.
Clarke Publishing, c1915
HISTORY OF DAKOTA TERRITORY by George W. Kingsbury / SOUTH DAKOTA ITS
HISTORY AND ITS PEOPLE edited by George Martin Smith, Vol. 3, S.J.
Clarke Publishing, c1915
HISTORY OF DAKOTA TERRITORY by George W. Kingsbury / SOUTH DAKOTA ITS
HISTORY AND ITS PEOPLE edited by George Martin Smith, Vol. 4, S.J.
Clarke Publishing, c1915
HISTORY OF DAKOTA TERRITORY by George W. Kingsbury / SOUTH DAKOTA ITS
HISTORY AND ITS PEOPLE edited by George Martin Smith, Vol. 5, S.J.
Clarke Publishing, c1915
MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD AND ILLUSTRATED COMPENDIUM OF
BIOGRAPHY, Published by Geo. A. Ogle & Co, c1890. [includes A.G. and
Morris Williams]
COMPENDIUM OF BIOGRAPHY [includes biographical sketches from Central
South Dakota] -- rebound, title page missing, but spine says 1899,
appears to be another volume of MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD AND
ILLUSTRATED COMPENDIUM OF BIOGRAPHY, Published by Geo. A. Ogle & Co --
includes A.G. and Morris Williams, but biosketches are not identical to
the 1890 edition.
HISTORY OF SOUTH DAKOTA by Doane Robinson together with personal
mention of citizens of South Dakota, Vol I. B. F. Bowen & Co., 1904.
HISTORY OF SOUTH DAKOTA by Doane Robinson together with personal
mention of citizens of South Dakota. Vol. 2, B.F. Bowen & Co., c1904.
Bound volumes of SOUTH DAKOTA HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS; ILLUSTRATED WITH
MAPS AND ENGRAVINGS compiled by the State Historical Society beginning
with Vol. 1, 1902 and continuing through 2013. Includes Cumulative
Index compiled in 1989. Missing volumes: The 1910 Volume 5.
Genealogy Trails History Group welcomes you to its Potter County site
GETTYSBURG/POTTER COUNTY HISTORY BOOKS
For Sale: Gettysburg's 75th Anniversary Book - 1883-1958. -- $5 each
None of the information is duplicated in the 100th Anniversary Book
The 100th Anniversary book is available through the Dakota Sunset Museum.
SD War Memorials
Vietnam War / Baltezore: Teddy Baltezore
South Dakota Sites for WWII, Korean War, and Vietnam War
