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Summer Series: Custer Expedition

July 19, 2019 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Enjoy our Summer Series - presentations on Black Hills figures or events packed with history and fun! Each presentation lasts an hour, including a Q&A.

Historian and Photographer Paul Horsted will take you on the trail traveled by Gen. George Armstrong Custer in the summer of 1874.

With his co-authors Ernie Grafe and Jon Nelson, he used original maps, diaries, and other first-hand accounts to trace the route through the Black Hills, publishing the results in the books “Exploring with Custer” and “Crossing the Plains with Custer.”

Using the first photographs ever taken in the Black Hills during this expedition, Paul “re-photographed” each site to reveal amazing changes and surprising similarities between past and present.

“Even after 20 years of research, we’re finding that the Custer Expedition photographs have secrets yet to be revealed,” Horsted says.

Horsted plans to visit all 50 of the Black Hills/Custer Expedition photo sites again soon and will discuss ongoing research during his program.

Horsted has been photographing South Dakota’s people, places and history for nearly 40 years. His work has appeared in publications such as “LIFE” magazine, “Reader’s Digest,” “USA Today,” “Smithsonian,” and “South Dakota Magazine.”

We mark the Custer Expedition and the discovery of gold in the Black Hills with our exhibit “Gold!”

Admission for a Summer Series event is $12 for adults, $10 for seniors and half-off for members. Call 394-6923 to reserve seats.

Theater map below. Seats marked ADA indicate wheelchair accessibility. Blue seats indicate space for foldout chairs, but ADA needs take first priority.

SUMMER SERIES SCHEDULE

Friday, June 7 at 5 p.m.: Eyes of the Storm
Friday, June 14 at 5 p.m.: Celebrating 50 Years of the Chapel in the Hills
Friday, June 21 at 5 p.m.: Musical Experience by Hank Harris
Tuesday, June 25 at 2 p.m.: Battle of Greasy Grass
Friday, June 28 at 5 p.m.: Burros in Custer State Park
Friday, July 5 at 5 p.m.: James Webb Space Telescope
Friday, July 12 at 5 p.m.: 50th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 Mission
Friday, July 19 at 5 p.m.: Custer Expedition
Friday, July 26 at 5 p.m.: The Back Porch - A Legend of Rock 'N Roll
Friday, Aug. 2 at 5 p.m.: Nuggets and Neutrinos

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