Once a major gold mining hub in the Black Hills, this South Dakota town has transformed itself into a year-round vacation ...

In the 19th century, over 250,000 Native Americans lived in the Great Plains -- between the Mississippi and Rocky Mountains ... nation ownership of the Black Hills, which were considered sacred ...

Today, the former Homestake Gold Mine, a 300-mile (480-kilometer) tunnel system carved inside the mountains, houses the ...

In the Treaty of 1868, the U.S. government promised the Sioux territory that included the Black Hills in perpetuity. Perpetuity lasted only until gold was found in the mountains and prospectors ...

"The Black Hills can amplify snowfall totals from slow-moving plains winter storms as moist, cold northerly winds are lifted by the mountains," The Weather Channel says. Lead's snowiest day on ...

The mountain range is central to the origin story ... being conducted by some of the world’s top minds inside the Black Hills, and he wanted to find a way to show them that this place was ...