South Dakota

Robert Young once was a successful Seattle business owner who thought poverty was "someone else's responsibility."

Wheelwright Tim Hoffman pours water on a hot rim of steel and momentarily disappears in a billowy cloud of steam at Hansen Wheel & Wagon Shop in Letcher, S.D. (pop. 160).

In 1988, Hyde bought an 11,000-acre ranch near Hot Springs, S.D. (pop. 4,129), to take in and release captured mustangs. He created the Black Hills Wild Horse Sanctuary to protect not just wild horses and the prairies, but also America’s equine heritage.

The Stars & Stripes, our national parks and the next generation best exemplify America and the American spirit based on the hundreds of images entered in American Profile’s “My America” Photo Contest.

Celebrating a century of treasured landmarks

Whooping and hollering, 45 horsemen and horsewomen drive 1,500 bison across the rugged terrain of South Dakota’s Black Hills.

ln May 1804, Capts. Meriwether Lewis and William Clark set off from winter camp near St. Louis with their party of men—dubbed the Corps of Discovery by President Thomas Jefferson—on an epic journey to the Pacific Ocean.

Ray Chamberlain's mission is to put old barns right with the world again.

That’s a lot of rock, yet only a tiny step toward completing the world’s largest sculpture: the image of Crazy Horse astride a horse, cut from Thunderhead Mountain in South Dakota’s Black Hills.

Zipping through Spearfish, S.D., streets in his brightly polished 1923 Model T, Les Schuchardt draws grins and waves. He responds with a toot of the car’s exhaust whistle.