American democratic ideals, civic republicanism, public morality, and Christianity were the dominant forces at work during South Dakota's formative decade.
What?
In our cynical age, such a claim seems either remarkably naIve or hopelessly outdated. Territorial politics in the late-nineteenth-century West is typically viewed as a closed-door game of unprincipled opportunism or is caricatured, as in the classic film "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, " as a drunken exercise in bombast and rascality.
Now Jon K. Lauck examines anew the values we like to think were at work during the...
American democratic ideals, civic republicanism, public morality, and Christianity were the dominant forces at work during South Dakota's formative de...
