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Undated Souvenir Postcard Booklet, Black Hills, South Dakota
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Souvenir postcard booklet, date unknown, The Black Hills, South Dakota
The postcard pictures are drawings, not photos.
The front says "Souvenir of The Black Hills of South Dakota" and has a picture of Mount Rushmore.
"15" is handwritten in the postage box.
On the flap: "Greetings from" over blank lines.
"Published by Black Hills Novelty Co., Rapid City, South Dakota - Made in U. S. A. by E. C. Kropp Co., Milwaukee, Wis. - (DEY) - F-39"
Card says "The State Game Lodge, Custer State Park"
"Road scene in Custer State Park"
"Harney Peak Lookout Tower from west"
"Horse shoe curve on the Needles Highway, Custer State Park"
"Spearfish Canyon"
"Roughlock Falls, Spearfish Canyon"
"Devil's Tower near Black Hills"
"Tyrannosaurus Rex and Triceratops in Dinosaur Park, Rapid City"
"Canyon Lake, near Rapid City"
"Buffalo at Wind Cave National Park"
"Homestake Mine at Lead"
"Sioux Indian camp"
"Along the Needles Highway, near Sylvan Lake, Custer State Park"
"The Needle's Eye, Custer State Park"
"Shades of the days of '76 look down on Deadwood, in the Black Hills"
"National Soldiers' Home at Hot Springs"
"Stockade Lake near Custer"
"The big tunnel on the Needles Highway"
"The Black Hills 
of South Dakota
A Mountain Vacation Land
Thrust upward out of the undulating prairie stand the Black Hills, a distinct group of
mountains, North, South, East and West are the plains, drinking thirstily of the crystal clear
streams that find their sources in the shaded slopes of the guardian peaks.
Historically, this country is not so old; its age as a mecca for summer vacationers and
tourists is comparatively short; but since the summer of 1874, when General George A. Custer
and his Severnth U.S. Cavalry, accompanied by geologists and newspaper men, were sent to
investigate reports that a few roving miners had found gold in the hills, and Horatio N. Ross,
a miner with the troops discovered gold on French Creek, there has been a lure about the hills
that has called many thousands, and those who came, prospectors, merchants, adventurers,
gentlemen of leisure, have sensed this lure, and those who have not remained have a longing
for the atmosphere, scenic beauty and friendly spirit of the Black Hills.
Indian lore has it that the Hills were considered the abiding place of the Great Spirit and
that those who trespassed would gain the ill will of the Spirit, but, when the white man heard
of gold he had no such superstition, and thus, in 1876, the settlement of this section started.
Now the beauty spots, trout streams and recreation centers are easily accessible ofer splen-
did highways, buses meet well-equipped trains, providing comfortable means of transportation
for those who do not come in automobiles. Nowhere has nature been so lavish in so limited
an area with diversity of scenery. And the lure of gold is still here - the Homestake Mine at
Lead being the largest producing gold mine in the world, over two hundred and fifty million
dollars having been produced by this mine in its sixty years of existence.
Highest among all the mountains east of the Rockies, reaching a maximum of 7,242 feet,
the Black Hills still retain the name given them by the Indians as translated from the musical
Paha Sapa of the Dakotas. Blue Spruce and Norway Pine, in eternal struggle to conquer the
rugged rock-topped peaks, give the mountains a midnight blue.
The Black Hills cover an area of about a hundred miles north and south, and fifty miles
wide, bordered on the north by a great government irrigation project, whose life-giving waters
find their sources in the turbulent streams of the mountains; to the south are the mineral
springs with their health restoring waters; to the east stretch the prairies of South Dakota,
fed by the streams from the slopes above them; to the west are the plains of Wyoming.
It is delightful equally for the vacationist who has but a day to spend and for him whose
time is unlimited. The clear air, perfumed with the breath of pines, the rollicking streams,
dancing from sunshine to shadow and the calm beauty of the mountains afford restfulness de-
rived only from surroundings. A few minutes walk carries you from the main arteries
of travel to primeval solitude. Canyons and gorges, streams and slopes find there a new ar-
rangement in the infinite variety of nature.
For the traveler who likes the conveniences of civilization along with a vacation spirit
there are modern hotels, sporty golf courses, and splendid highways, over which he may travel
to his heart's content. For the vacationist who seeks a more vigorous type of recreation, and
who wishes for a time to get away from the obvious accomodations of modern life, a thou-
sand places present themselves to him for choice. He may set up his camp beside a mountain
stream and live to himself undisturbed, except for the wild life of the forest about him
You may spend a day, a month, or time unlimited here with a full measure of enjoyment
- modern camp grounds, sylvan glades, or if you prefer to stop at hotels, every town has well
equipped, modern hostelries, and at Rapid City is the new Alex Johnson the "Wonder Hotel
of the West" which furnishes accomodations equal to any hotel west of Chicago."
"Sylvan Lake,
Black Hills, S.D. - 304"
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