South Dakota

Mount Rushmore State

South Dakota offers the residents a wonderful way of life plus many activities like hiking, biking, rock climbing, sailing and kayaking. For the children there are fantasy castles build of corn and tropical jungles with exotic birds. There are millions of acres of state park and recreational areas to explore, hunting and fishing opportunities, places to fossil hunt and beautiful scenery to enjoy.

South Dakota is the second-largest producer of flaxseed and sunflower seed in the nation and it is the third-largest producer of hay and rye. Although agriculture is a cultural and economic mainstay in South Dakota it no longer leads the state in share of gross state product or employment. Manufactured durable-goods and private services have risen as the economic drivers in South Dakota. Tourism in South Dakota is a booming billion dollar a year industry for the state.

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Population: 781,919 as of 2006
Land Area: 75,885 sq mi. (196,542 sq km)
Per Capita personal Income: $ 33,905 as of 2007
Capital: Pierre

Although South Dakota has no major professional sports teams, the Sioux Falls has a a minor league hockey team and the Sioux Falls Canaries are a minor league baseball club that play in the independent Northern League.

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That when Dakota split into two parts, South Dakota became variously known as the Blizzard State, the Artesian State (for the many artesian wells in the state) and the Land of Plenty? It was also known as the Sunshine State a name, which unlike the other three, was retained and which was depicted on the state flag until 1980. In that year, South Dakota deferred to Florida's claim on the nickname and relaunched the state officially as the Mount Rushmore State, which appears in words on the state flag. The other common nickname is The Coyote State, which comes from the prairie wolf, named by the Nahuatl Indians as the "coyotl", from which we get "Coyote" (and which is also a nickname for the residents of the state).

That sculptor Gutzon Borglum began drilling into the 6,200-foot Mount Rushmore in 1927? Creation of the Shrine to Democracy took 14 years and cost a mere $1 million, though it's now deemed priceless.

That the faces of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln are sculpted into Mount Rushmore?

That South Dakota is the home of the Dakota, Lakota and Nakota tribes, which make up the Sioux Nation?

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