No trip to South Dakota is complete without a visit to the granddaddy of all monuments. Marvel at the craftsmanship and ego of carving four massive presidential faces into a mountainside. Don't ...

Mapped by the 7th Calvary’s George Custer in 1874, prior to his misfortune further west at Little Big Horn, the buffalo are the stars of South Dakota’s largest park, an ideal complement to ...

ELK POINT, S.D. -- At the sight of company, the young buffalo begins to stir. She moseys over to the fence to greet Stew Hines, her owner. He ruffles her shaggy head, scratches her neck and asks ...

Cowboys, cowgirls and park rangers this month will wrangle about 1,300 bison in an Old West-style roundup at Custer State Park in South Dakota. The 49th Buffalo Roundup (yes, they’re bison but ...

South Dakota is the country's largest buffalo producer. The biggest bison rancher is media mogul Ted Turner; he owns more than 50,000 head. (See a bison recipe from his ranch here.) ...

Fred DuBray’s bison herd in South Dakota has been ravaged by Mycoplasma bovis, a bacterium that has decimated herds across the Plains and the West. By Mitch Smith BLACKFOOT, S.D. — On the ice ...