Don’t forget the History and Heritage Book Club

The History and Heritage Book Club meets in a couple of weeks, May 12, at the Cultural Heritage Center in Pierre, at 7pm.

The book club is open to anyone who wishes to attend. This month’s selection is another South Dakota State Historical Society Press book, Cowboy Life: The Letters of George Philip. Cathie Draine, who edited the letters and is Philip’s granddaughter will be joining the discussion through a conference phone call.

If you wish to have a signed copy of this book we can also arrange that, either in advance or after the discussion. And, don’t forget that there is a downloadable reader’s guide for this book as well.

April E-Newsletter Now Available

The latest e-newsletter is now available.

If you would like to receive this e-newsletter, please email the Press, with subscribe to e-newsletter in the subject line.

2009-2010 Catalog

Just a quick update on our latest catalog. A few delays in the writing process, but it has gone off to design now, so we should have it to the printer within a few weeks and then mailed out and available.

As with last year’s catalog, it will be full color and will be available as a PDF file for download from our main website.

6 new books debut in this year’s catalog, including the just released Seth Bullock: Black Hills Lawman. Other topics for books include tourism in the Black Hills, Populism in South Dakota, the damming of the Missouri River, and growing up in small-town South Dakota.

We’ll let you know when it is available both online and in print.

Donald Montileaux in Rapid City Journal

The Rapid City Journal has a feature story about artist and illustrator Donald Montileaux who illustrated Tatanka and the Lakota People: A Creation Story, which is now also available in paperback.

River Appreciation Day

Jerry Wilson has written a blog post about a local River Appreciation Day on the Missouri River near Vermillion. Check it out at his Coyote’s Call blog.

Thank you!

Thanks to all those who have completed the short survey for us about our online presence.

We had a pretty good response and it is nice to get some feedback from our most valuable resource…you! We’ll be analyzing the results here fairly soon, and then we’ll attempts to improve where we can, make the changes suggested where possible, and generally take your feedback to heart.

We’re not going to close this survey, so if you wish to take, please do so. On this blog, you can find the link further down on a previous post or you can always visit www.sdshspress.com where you will find the survey link on the “News” tab.

Thanks again. We really appreciate it.

Cowboy Life Reader’s Guide

Cowboy Life: The Letters of George Philip has been chosen as the History and Heritage Book Club’s selection for May. So, we’ve put together a short reader’s guide to accompany the book and hopefully stimulate some thinking and discussion for the group.

The reader’s guide is available online at our main website, so even if you won’t be attending that book club, you can always check out the reader’s guide and see what you might have contributed to the discussion.

Seth Bullock is here

It seems as though we have been waiting for ages to get our first book of 2009 into the warehouse, but it has arrived.

Seth Bullock: Black Hills Lawman is now in stock and available. We’ll be putting out our media kit and press releases etc., as soon as we get a chance, and review copies will be winging their way to people soon too.

Great response to the new book this past weekend at the South Dakota History Conference. David Wolff, the author, signed copies as well.

Burning Tall Grass

Jerry Wilson, author of Waiting for Coyote’s Call has posted his latest musings to his blog. Head that way to check out what he has to say.

History and Heritage Book Club

The History and Heritage Book Club met for the first time last night, at the Cultural Heritage Center in Pierre. 12 people attended, having read Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane: Deadwood Legends by James D. McLaird, published by the South Dakota State Historical Society Press.

The conversation was lively and stimulating, and with the author joining the group via conference call, everyone was able to really dig beneath the surface and ask some interesting questions.

The History and Heritage Book Club meets the second Tuesday of each month. The next meeting will be May 12 at 7pm. Those who attended the first meeting chose Cowboy Life: The Letters of George Philip as the next book to be read. H and H members receive a 10% discount on the price of the book at the South Dakota Cultural Heritage Store. It is hoped that Cathie Draine, editor of Cowboy Life will attend the meeting via conference call.