Rapid City Public Library’s podcast series continues in October with: Black Hills Legends and Lore: Spooky Season, in honor of Halloween.

This episode features readings from The South Dakota Road Guide to Haunted Locations by Chad Lewis and Terry Fisk and Ghostly Tales of the Black Hills and Badlands by Ruth D. Hein, both available in the Local History section of the Rapid City Public Library.

We'll hear about strange occurrences at the Homestake Mine in Lead, and the Hotel Alex Johnson and the old Hooky Jack's building, both in Rapid City.

Reading and editing by Adrian Ludens

Music: Spacetrain Unlimited and Roie Shpigler. Used by permission.

Rapid City Public Library’s podcast series continues in October with: Black Hills Legends and Lore: Spooky Season, in honor of Halloween.

This episode features readings from Haunted Deadwood: a True Wild West Ghost Town by Mark Shadley and Josh Wennes, and Black Hills Myths & Legends: the True Stories Behind History's Mysteries by T. D. Griffith. Both books are available in the Local History section of the Rapid City Public Library.

The topic of this episode is the Bullock Hotel and its namesake, Seth Bullock.

Reading and editing by Adrian Ludens

Music: Spacetrain Unlimited and Roie Shpigler. Used by permission.

Rapid City Public Library’s podcast series continues in October with: Black Hills Legends and Lore: Spooky Season, in honor of Halloween.

This episode features readings from Black Hills Believables: Strange but True Tales of the Old West by John Hafnor and The South Dakota Road Guide to Haunted Locations by Chad Lewis and Terry Fisk, both available in the Local History section of the Rapid City Public Library.

We'll hear about Wind Cave's "Petrified Man", Hill City's Alpine Inn, A Dakota Dream B&B in Hot Springs, strange explosions in the Black Hills, and more.

Reading and editing by Adrian Ludens

Music: Spacetrain Unlimited and Roie Shpigler. Used by permission.

Rapid City Public Library’s podcast series continues with: Black Hills Legends and Lore.

This episode features Boone May, handy with a gun (and just barely on the right side of the law), and part two of a two-part series about Crazy Horse.

Boone May segment recorded and edited by Adrian Ludens. Crazy Horse research and commentary by Charles Sitting Bull, recorded and edited by Adrian Ludens.

Music: Ben Winwood and Ziv Moran. Used by permission.

Rapid City Public Library’s podcast series continues with: Black Hills Legends and Lore.

This episode includes information about the Thoen Stone, and the discovery of gold long before the Custer Expedition; and part one of a two-part series with Charles Sitting Bull, in which he discusses the life of Crazy Horse.

Thoen Stone segment recorded and edited by Adrian Ludens. Crazy Horse research and commentary by  Charles Sitting Bull, recorded and edited by Adrian Ludens.

Music: Ben Winwood and Ziv Moran. Used by permission.

Full presentation by Charles Sitting Bull talking about Sitting Bull's assassination, how his family fled, and subsequently avoided the Wounded Knee Massacre, Sitting Bull's interactions with Crowfoot, the Blackfoot chief from Canada. A significant portion of this presentation is used in episode 4.

Rapid City Public Library’s podcast series continues this summer with: Black Hills Legends and Lore.

This episode features Corey Christianson of the South Dakota State Historical Society sharing the story of Rapid City's legendary night watchman "Hooky" Jack Leary; and part four of a multi-part series with Charles Sitting Bull, in which he discusses the assassination of Sitting Bull and the subsequent Wounded Knee Massacre.

Hooky Jack research and commentary by Corey Christianson, recorded and edited by Adrian Ludens. Sitting Bull research and commentary by  Charles Sitting Bull, recorded and edited by Adrian Ludens.

Music: Ben Winwood and Ziv Moran. Used by permission.

Full presentation by Charles Sitting Bull talking about Sitting Bull addressing the rail barons, L. Frank Baum's racist newspaper editorials, growing up in the parochial schools and receiving contaminated rations, and Sitting Bull's interactions with various Indian Agents. A significant portion of this presentation is used in episode 3.

Rapid City Public Library’s podcast series continues this summer with: Black Hills Legends and Lore.

This episode features: "Poker" Alice Tubbs, notorious gambler and Sturgis resident; and part three of a multi-part series with Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse descendent Charles Sitting Bull.

Poker Alice segment voiced by Adrian Ludens. Recording of Charles Sitting Bull edited by Adrian Ludens.

Music: Ben Winwood and Ziv Moran. Used by permission.

A portion of this session with Charles Sitting Bull was used in Episode 2. Here is the full talk, with extensive information on the Fort Laramie Treaty, how the Lakota reacted to encroaching whites, the decline of the buffalo, and the lives of Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse.