Great Plains Studies, Center for
Date of this Version
1990
Abstract
Although I am now sixty-eight years old, I have thought of myself during the past half century since my eighteenth birthday as a young man. Perhaps that is partly because I have been blessed with good health and personal vigor, but it may also be because I was born and reared in a young State. South Dakota was only thirtytwo years old when I first came on the scene at Avon in 1922. My father, a pioneer Dakota clergyman, whom I always thought of as an old man, was born in 1868--twenty-one years before South Dakota achieved statehood. He knew much about South Dakota when it was still part of the Dakota Territory.
Comments
Published in Great Plains Quarterly FALL 1990 .Copyright 1990 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska—Lincoln.