In 1993 Jonathan Raban entered the Badlands. Here he came across the ruins of a community and isolated homesteads. These homes, he realized, gave clues as to the characters of the people who took the train West in the early 20th century in search of new lives. This is their story.
There's much more to South Dakota than Wall Drug and Mount Rushmore, as you will find in The Insiders' Guide to South Dakota's Black Hills and Badlands. The Black Hills...