The South Dakota Humanities Council, a non-profit that leads statewide advocacy for the humanities, is pleased to announce this year’s winners of the Distinguished Achievement in the Humanities Awards.

Tom Clavin’s aim in his new biography of Wild Bill Hickok is to find the true story of the man who famously met his demise at the hands of assassin Jack McCall inside Deadwood’s Saloon No. 10.

New York Times bestselling author Tosca Lee has an arc to her life that may even rival some of the characters in her novels.

The South Dakota Humanities Council is again helping to bring a U.S. Poet Laureate to South Dakota.