Who would take his three children plus three more children hitchhiking through South Dakota? I don’t know anyone who would, but Earl Neller did just that in 1933. During the “dirty thirties,” Earl took six children hitch hiking 850 miles from Sioux Falls, to the Black Hills and then to Hebron, North Dakota.
South Dakota State Historical Society Archivist Matthew Reitzel joins us on History 605 to discuss his article in the latest South Dakota History journal about their adventure. We discuss how their diaries and photographs came into our care and what an amazing South Dakota experience the Nellers and Kinkaids had.
The journal is a benefit of membership in the Historical Society.