Spring 2011
A Marvelous Hundred Square Miles: Black Hills Tourism, 1880–1941
Suzanne Barta Julin ’01 PhD
South Dakota State Historical Society Press, 2010
The faces of four presidents gaze down on the Black Hills of South Dakota, a fitting vigil for a tourist destination carved, like Mount Rushmore itself, by public policy, political machinations, and private investments.
Historian Suzanne Barta Julin has documented the rise of the Black Hills tourism industry, which grew from the efforts of state and federal politicians at the shift to automobile-driven … » More …