Literature Of South Dakota. PREFACE The History of South Dakota has been written, at various times, during the past twenty years, separately, by Armstrong, Robinson, Kerr, Bachelder, Foster, Ransom, Kingsbury and Smith the Civics, by Smith and Young, Ross, Johnson, and Ransom the GeoIogy, by Todd, 0"Harra, and Perisho the Geography, by Beadle, Perisho and Visher a History, by titles, of the published books of the state has been made by Robinson in Historical Reports, and a similar list has been compiled by Kerr. But the Literature, proper, of the state has never been written. The nearest approach to it is a book of Dakota Rhymes, compiled by WenzIaff and Burleigh but, as suggested by the title, their book contains verse only, while, as a matter of fact, much of our best literature and many of our ablest writers are found wholly in the field of prose. However, they deserve great credit for collecting the material for their book, otherwise many of our best poetical productions...