News from past issues of the Timber Lake Topic and Isabel Dakotan
Timber Lake Topic
December 4, 1930
Brookings Register
Out West of the River
A lot of folks in eastern South Dakota and outside the state do not half appreciate that part of South Dakota designated as the west-of-the-river country. They think of it perhaps as the country of the Bad Lands, of as a region where dry hot winds sometimes exact a heavy toll. But that is only half the story.
The land west of t…