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Enjoy a view into the past. Each letter in this site dates back to the 19th and early 20th centuries, they tell of the life and times of our pioneer ancestors. Letters written by everyday people about everyday matters - life, death, sickness, prairie fires and snowstorms, their want's and desires.

The letters have not been edited, all grammer and spelling remains as it was delivered. E-mail addresses are shown for those who supplied one. Those which have no e-mail address is done so because of personal request or the e-mail is no longer valid.

NOTE: All counties showing submissions as of February 1, 2005, have the permission of the submitter to continue using their letters on this site.

This South Dakota site is hosted at USGenNet. Your webmaster is Steven Stymiest. Thanks to Darrell Fransen who started these pages and collected the first Pioneer Letters for them.

Note:*** were USGenWeb/SDGenWeb submissions which have been removed from this site.

NOTE:  New page for Unknown added April 14, 2005.

Letters can now be submitted at: Submit Letters

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Aurora	Beadle	Bennett	***Bon Homme	Brookings	Brown
Brule	Buffalo	Butte	Campbell	***Charles Mix	Clark
Clay	Codington	Cole	Corson	Custer	Davison
Day	Deuel	Dewey	Douglas	Edmunds	Fall River
Faulk	Grant	Gregory	Haakon	Hamlin	Hand
Hanson	Harding	***Hughes	Hutchinson	Hyde	Jackson
Jerauld	Jones	***Kingsbury***	Lake	***Lawrence	Lincoln
***Lyman	Marshall	***McCook	McPherson	Meade	Mellette
Miner	Minnehaha	Moody	Pennington	Perkins	Potter
Roberts	Rusk	Sanborn	Shannon	Spink	Stanley
Sully	Todd	***Tripp	Turner	***Union	Walworth
Washington	Yankton	Ziebach	Unknown	Multi Co.

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