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Rangeviews, Oral, S.D. In addition to local museums, libraries often have a repository of local history. Hot Springs and Fall River County, South Dakota have lucked out in that department. Two entities started out under the hand of Helen Magee, a local historian. She grew up in the county and worked with her father in the insurance business. She knew everyone, including the maiden names of county women. As historians and genealogists know, it can be a problem to find information on women in past eras as it was impolite to refer to a married woman in the newspaper by anything other than Mrs. J...
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