Deadwood, South Dakota, transforms into the state's best Halloween town with its haunted history and the annual Deadweird festival.

The exploits of Calamity Jane and Wild Bill became wild west myth, as Peter Cozzens’s history of Deadwood shows. But behind ...

Point your wheels toward these South Dakota hideaways where the signs are modest the rooms are friendly and the food makes ...

DE SMET, S.D. – Hundreds of thousands of tourists every year frequent sites tied to South Dakota's pioneer and Wild West history, and cemeteries are among the historic sites that bring the past to ...

Cozzens, enjoyably, tells tales involving Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane and gambling and town leader Al Swearengen as well as an array of other characters. His description of the frontier town is ...

Autumn in the Black Hills glows with color, music, heritage, and legend a season of golden leaves, warm fires, and timeless celebration.

Educated Chicagoan Frank McGovern found the legendary Miners Delight mine, then lost over a million dollars to gambling, ...

When it comes to vacations, many families hoof it to the slopes in the winter or somewhere beachy and tropical in the summer.

“It was just dumb as hell,” the photographer Jeremiah M. Murphy tells me. “I have rules, and I broke one of my rules.” Murph, ...

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The Midwest is an underrated, autumnal gem that deserves just as much fall foliage hype as New England. Here are some of the best places for leaf peeping.