Images of the Past

In this SDPB archive video, we take to Lake Kampeska with some intrepid ice sailors. It comes from our South Dakota Outdoor Guide show with host Pete Egart, aired in 1989.

A chance meeting with a salesman in Watertown led Ted and Dorothy Hustead on a drive across South Dakota to investigate an opportunity in a tiny town called Wall.

This film from 1949 shows the growing popularity of skiing on Terry Peak in the Black Hills of South Dakota.

In this rare 1962 film from South Dakota Public Broadcasting's archives, we listen as writer, poet and ethnographer John G. Neihardt reads from his book, "Black Elk Speaks".

Excerpts from the 1992 documentary "The Men Who Made Rushmore" combine film shot during the carving of Mount Rushmore with interviews of workers fifty years after the project came to an end.

Although a number of events and issues influenced and altered Borglum's original vision, the main determiner of what would finally be cut into the granite was the mountain itself. Cracks and other "flaws" in the rock forced certain decisions about what could be done and what could not be.

In this 1962 clip of The American Sportsman Host Curt Gowdy is in Howard, South Dakota, hunting with actor Robert Stack and WWII heroes Joe Foss and General James Dolittle.

World War II hero and former South Dakota governor Joe Foss offers some pheasant hunting safety tips in this clip from a 1962 episode of "The American Sportsman" filmed near Howard, South Dakota.

Film produced by the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad as a tourism promotion shows people on horseback rounding-up the Custer State Park Buffalo herd in 1938.

This archival video shows the 1991 Custer State Park Buffalo Roundup, attended by then Governor George S. Mickelson.