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Nothing but Prairie and Sky : Life On the Dakota Range in the Early Days Western Frontier Library ; 45
author
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Siberts, Bruce.; Wyman, Walker Demarquis
publisher
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University of Oklahoma Press
isbn10 | asin
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080612122X
print isbn13
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9780806121222
ebook isbn13
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9780585100258
language
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English
subject
South Dakota--Social life and customs, Ranch life--South Dakota--History, Frontier and pioneer life--South Dakota, Siberts, Bruce,--1868-1932.
publication date
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1988
lcc
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F656.S56 1988eb
ddc
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978.3/031
subject
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South Dakota--Social life and customs, Ranch life--South Dakota--History, Frontier and pioneer life--South Dakota, Siberts, Bruce,--1868-1932.
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The Western Frontier Library
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Nothing but Prairie and Sky
Life on the Dakota Range in the Early Days
Recorded by WALKER D. WYMAN from the original notes of BRUCE SIBERTS Foreword by GILBERT C. FITE
Norman and London: UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA PRESS
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BY WALKER D. WYMAN:
A Topical Guide to the Mississippi Valley Historical Review and Proceedings (Mississippi Valley Historical Association, 1934)
The Wild Horse of the West (Caldwell, Idaho, 1945)
California Emigrant Letters (New York, 1952)
Nothing But Prairie and Sky (Norman, 1954)
(editor, with C. Kroeber) The Frontier in Perspective (Madison, 1957)
(with M. Ridge) The American Adventure (Chicago, 1964)
(editor) History of the Wisconsin State Universities (River Falls, Wisconsin, 1968)
Mythical Creatures of the North Country (River Falls, Wisconsin, 1969)
The Lumberjack Frontier (Lincoln, 1969)
To the Pioneers Who, like Bruce Siberts, remembered only the sweetness, not the hardship of their lonely lives
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 54-5930 ISBN: 0-8061-2122-X
Nothing but Prairie and Sky is Volume 45 in The Western Frontier Library.
Copyright 1954 by the University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Publishing Division of the University. All rights reserved. Manufactured in the U.S.A.
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Foreword
THIS IS a memoir of the last frontier that should be kept in print. Nothing but Prairie and Sky is a fascinating account of the experiences of a small rancher in western South Dakota, commonly known as the West River country. Leaving his Iowa home in 1890, twenty-two-year-old Bruce Siberts, like thousands of other young men in the late nineteenth century, decided to seek his fortune farther west. He homesteaded on Plum Creek, west of Pierre, and for the next sixteen years he engaged in small-time cattle and horse ranching.
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Siberts' recollections tell us a great deal about a time and a generation far removed from the knowledge and experience of late-twentieth-century Americans. Life was hard, often lonesome and boring, and filled with doubts about the wisdom of trying to wrestle a living from the land. Siberts, unmarried and living alone in his crude shack near Plum Creek, lacked the support of family as he coped with the personal and economic hardships of pioneering.
Although Siberts' recollections were written nearly a half century after the events that he relates and may lack accuracy in some detail, this book has much to say about life at the end of the frontier period. It projects a strong sense of reality and authenticity. Siberts tells about individualism and self-reliance in a wild, untamed country. He relates how he made do in tough times and how he survived blizzards, drought, and other natural hazards common in the region. There are insights into the moral standards of the day when Siberts discusses the common practice of killing for beef a cow or a calf from a herd other than his own.
Relatives sometimes provided capital for enterprising small ranchers and homesteaders, and Siberts once received a $2,000 loan from his father to expand his cattle operations. Though there is little about the business aspects of ranching in Siberts' account, he does include some information on markets, winter losses, and other factors affecting a pioneer rancher's success or failure. In any event, his little place in western South Dakota served to launch him on a very successful career in Oklahoma.
Siberts relates many incidents and experiences that may not be of great historical significance but provide interesting and entertaining reading. His accounts of a local Fourth of July celebration, of eating badger meat, of
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taking trips to Chicago to sell cattle, of sharing with neighbors, and of attempts to start church services and Sunday School, along with his comments on Pierre as a frontier town and his recollections on many other events make this memoir good reading.
One of the most interesting aspects of this book are the attitudinal comments. Siberts spent one winter in Chicago and rubbed elbows with people whom he considered to be "a bad-mannered lot." This country boy did not like the pushy city folks that he found on the shores of Lake Michigan. And he had no romantic notions about cowboys. He called them a "scrubby bunch." The people who appear in Siberts' story are a cross section of ordinary Americans, warts and all. Bruce Siberts did not glamorize or romanticize the West, and that is one of the memoir's main strengths.
On more than one occasion Siberts seriously considered turning to something other than ranching. Like many other young men of his generation he thought he would prefer a white-collar job to a life among cattle and horses. He even attended business college for a short time with the thought of preparing himself for a job off the ranch. But the strong attraction of life on the range drew him back to western South Dakota, where he stayed until 1906, when he sold out and moved to Oklahoma.
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