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Missiles Turning Prairie Into Part of Everyday Life
South Dakota ranchers and townspeople live beside Minuteman missile sites, treating them as ordinary scenery while fretting about war and prices. Farmers describe nervous pride, daily routines, and tensions with the Air Force amid fears of nuclear strike, land seizures, and disrupted livestock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Dakota
Haan
Marl Waterland
William Carlstrom
Ameri J
North American
Wen. Wevige
United States
Kworst
Dale Lewis
Pennington
Courant
Joe Jones
Belle Junction
Mure
Wourdie
Alfred Allen
Rapid City
Ellsworth
Margaret Jensen
Air Force Base
Strategic School
Air Command
Southy
Bill Schmele
Dakota
Allen
Air Force
Hiroshima
Nagasaki
Maj
Thomas McKiernan
Teese T
Margaret
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Maj. McKiernan
Waterland
U.S. Corps of Engineers
Horace B. Jackson
Rapid ‘City
Deadwood
Aberdeen
Brooklyn
John Kudloch
Jackson
Bernard Jeveleth
Union Center