Belle Fourche (S.D.)
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Camille Yuill and Jessie Sundstrom family papers
Collection
Identifier: 5004
Abstract
The Yuill/Sundstrom Collection is a mixture of professional and personal records created by Camille Yuill and her daughter, Jessie Yuill Sundstrom. Both women were local historians and were involved in the newspaper industry; Camille as the editor of the Deadwood Pioneer-Times in Deadwood, South Dakota and Jessie as the publisher, author, and partial owner of the Custer County Chronicle in Custer, South Dakota. Camille...
Dates:
1870s-2000s
Homestake Vested Water Rights
Collection
Identifier: 5000
Abstract
The Homestake Mining Company was founded in 1876 and operated for 126 years, ultimately growing into the oldest, largest, and deepest gold mine in the Western Hemisphere. A critical contributor to this large-scale success lies in the company’s early acquisition of water rights in the Black Hills. The water rights collection housed at the Homestake Adams Research and Cultural Center details the mine’s systematic attainment of these water rights, as well as the legal struggles that occurred in...
Dates:
1876 - 1998