Pioneers and Custer State Park by Jessie Y. Sundstrom (Paperback)

Custer State Park attracts millions of visitors every year, enticed by the natural beauty of South Dakota’s Black Hills. This is the story of how the park grew from an expanse of homesteads, mining claims, and public lands into one the largest and most popular state parks in America. Economic visionaries, Depression-era works project laborers, highway engineers, and wildlife experts combined efforts to create the landscape beloved by visitors from around the world.