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SOUTH DAKOTA STATEHOOD
First Day of Issue: May 3, 1989
First Issue Location: Pierre, South Dakota
South Dakota is regarded by the many people who don't
know it as a mysterious, rugged, frontier state unchanged
from the romantic and sometimes bloody ways of days
past. A youthful state, South Dakota lacks the history of
the eastern states, the Spanish traditions of the southwest-
ern states, and the ages-old Native American culture of
other parts of the country. The first Sioux tribes arrived in
the area along with French explorers during the eight-
eenth century. The nineteenth century brought the Lewis
and Clark expedition, fur trade, the gold rush to the Black
Hills, Indian uprisings, and the birth of the cattle industry.
It also brought heavier settlement around the turn of the
century, the official end of Indian resistance, and state-
hood. South Dakota was admitted to the Union on
November 2, 1889. After that, the twentieth century
brought continued population growth, agricultural devel-
opment, and an expansion of education, culture and the
arts that have made the South Dakota of the old West the
contemporary state of today.
No. 89-16
©1989 The Maximum Card Collection
A Division of Unicover Corporation • Cheyenne, WY 82008-0007
Original painting by Ed Little
