The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1921-09-01

by leaps and bounds, to permit North
Dakota TO keep her name: Drop the
North in it, even if she will; but have
South Dakota remove from herself the
! stigma which Dakota alone seems 10
give and take unto herself the new
name Roosevelt
South Dakota, beg pardon, Roosc-
welt, they ask that we call it that in
the public prints now, is n of the
wonder states of the American Com
monwealth. There isn't a state in the
American uniOn which can surpass ii
in the variety of subjects presented
to hold the interest OF the stranger.
be his tastes along whatever lines.
"Out among the lovely Black Hills
for example, you who delight in the
softly rolling landscapes of the Blue
grass belt Of Kentucky will find par
%allels; only in the Black Hills big
clumps of an evergreen which stands
out, black as coal. against the green
of the meadows. adds a touch OF SUI
perior beauty such as one finds only
otherwheres at Blumenthal in the
Hungarian Alps.
Peoples and places?
Meet George SChlOsser Of Sioux
Falls, the father of modern South Da'
kota, and you will meet a business
man the peer Of any in the east. Go
out to the Scotty Phillips ranch. nea
Pierre, where buffalo are interbred
with dairy cattle to produce some
toothsome cattle, and you will find In
dians-proud Dacotahs, and cowboys
of the sort you fancied existed only
In the wild western shows and anti.
quated border plays.
AT Watertown you may ride upon
a lake possessed Of all the charm that
lures midwestern cottagers to the five
inland seas. Round about Aberdeen
they can take you riding through miles
of waving wheat and barley that are
easily the peer Of any you will meet
in Saskatchewan and Alberta.
"And if you are seeking the curious.
the quaint, if you want to take a step
back through the decades and very
nearly the centuries and have a taste
Of the life which is old, the real West
you always think Of it, you can't af,
ford to omit Deadwood.
"Teetotaler or otherwise, you must
inspect the saloons, the tap-rooms, the
brothels, that made Deadwood a by
word where bad men met in the old
days, and where whisky, not rum
or other intoxicants, ruled king until
prohibition came.
And in these saloons, when men
gather now over near beer and near
this, near that and the other, you may
hear, first-hand, recollections of the
bad days in the West which will make
your blood run cold.
only don't imagine that these lanes
Of saloons are typical OF South Dakota
any more than picturesque Greenwich
village is typical of New York. The
South Dakota improvement associa.
tons wouldn't even suggest this part
Of Deadwood to you, should you ask
them to outline your trip.
1T requires weeks Of steady travel
to exhaust the major wonder of South
Dakota.
Days may be spent with profit, at
the big buffalo ranch outside Pierre.
Particularly in the mating season
| when the bison bulls go about choosing
their mates with all the care of the
Grand Turk exercised in former days
in picking odalesques for his harem
and then guarding these against all
corners until the cows retire for fOal.
ing, is the ranch most interesting, il
but for the contests royal between the
bulls.
"A day in the gold camps outside
| Of Lead is a day to be long remem-
bered. So, too, an excursion into the
Aberdeen grain belt, particularly in
The threshing season, is a junket of
rare delight.
$50 there are other and endlessly
many lures to bring folk to South Da,
kota and, having brought them to visit,
to induce them to settle for all time
here.
North Dakota South Dakotans claim,
can produce nowhere nearly such an
array of attractions. North Dakota,
they would have you believe, is a
bleak, tornado-swept. inhospitable land
OF early ripening grain and snowbound
mesas for the rest of the year. Posi-.
bly, they are unduly p%rejudiced; posi-
by they are unfair to the neighbor.