Skeletons of the Prairie: Abandoned Rural Codington County, South Dakota

Holien, Ried

ISBN 10: 1578641063 / ISBN 13: 9781578641062

Published by Codington County Historical soci, 2000

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Skeletons of the Prairie: Abandoned Rural Codington County, South Dakota
• Publisher: Codington County Historical soci
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1578641063
• ISBN 13: 9781578641062
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Long before the first homesteader settled in South Dakota the Lakota Native Americans who lived here followed a tradition of placing their dead on scaffolds erected on the open prairie. Left tot the elements, the body returned to the earth. To some extent, white pioneers followed this tradition. The buildings they lived in, worked in, played in, and sometimes died in, are now abandoned. These scaffolds were left standing long after the people they held passed on. They are silent reminders to a way of life now gone—unmarked gravestones in a forgotten cemetery.