Books for Sale

Pick out a book or several, and send your choices and your check to the Brookings County Museum, PO Box 872, Brookings, SD, 57006. (Remember to include $3.00 for postage and handling.) Or click the Buy Now button to the right if you would rather use a credit or debit card. Let us know if you’d like the author to sign the book. Authors with books sold in the Museum Book Store have agreed to donate a portion of each sale to the Brookings County Museum.

Grandpa's Horses

by Chuck Cecil

$25.00 Tax included

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A large format, 130-page book. More than 275 old photographs and stories about farming with horses in South Dakota horse era from the 1890s to the 1930s. Vignettes about threshing time and stories about South Dakotans and their horses. The most complete book on South Dakota horses. Will make a great gift.

Bull Trains to Deadwood

by Chuck Cecil

Pandemonium wafted up out of Deadwood Gulch whenever bellowing, slogging teams of oxen-led wagons rattled into town. For a decade, from 1876 to 1886, thousands of bull trains hauled all that miners, settlers and ne’er-do-wells needed to survive in the isolated prairie oasis known as the Black Hills of Dakota Territory. The book has dozens of photos augmenting the 145-page story of this little-known slice of South Dakota history.

$23.99 Tax included

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Here & Far Away

Brookings County and WWII

by Chuck Cecil

230 pages and dozens of pictures about life in Brookings and the brave lives of individual Brookings County service men and women facing danger on the war front. Includes vignettes of the county’s heroes and sacrifices. In a special section is the entire list of the hundreds of young Brookings County men and women who were either drafted or enlisted for service during the war.

$20.00 Tax included

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Nick's Hamburger Shop

"Buy 'Em By The Bag"

by Chuck Cecil

A neat little tome telling in words and pictures the story of a Brookings icon, and a hamburger served on waxed paper that is still the community favorite as it has been for decades since its beginnings in 1929 with its nickel a burger offering.

$7.00 Tax included

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The Corner

by Chuck Cecil

It all started out as Logue’s Corner in the northwest quadrant of Fourth and Main in Brookings, and for nearly fifty years has lived on at the exact location as Ray’s Corner. It’s where for decade after decade the town leaders in suit and tie and the passers-by in jeans and overalls just off work dropped in to mingle, enjoy a cold one, and soak up all of the news and gossip of the Brookings day. Includes pictures.

$3.00 Tax included

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Postcards from South Dakota

by Chuck Cecil

More than 200 brief, often humorous stories gleaned and gathered by the author over a lifetime. Some of the tales recall little-known historic facts, while others qualify as historic trivia that is often sprinkled in among history’s cobwebs, like the state’s most unusual last will and testament, South Dakota’s last buffalo, the story of Dante’s Hell and the excitement of the famous Dakota Bloomers.

$20.00 Tax included

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Fire the Anvils

by Chuck Cecil

The history of Brookings County from 1860 to 1900 with pictures in its 240 pages. Seventeen chapters about all that happened in those formative years, from the treatment of kidney stones and other pesterations to the great Fourth of July “scatteration,” and how cows ruined the city’s sidewalks. Read about the town’s early leaders and its late at night ne’er-do-wells and scofflaws.

$15.00 Tax included

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