Introduction

In 1998 the Department of Environment and Natural Resources provided funds to the State Archives for the purpose of identifying and cataloging records relating to Missouri River Development Project as well as creating a guide to these records for the public. This served as a continuation of an earlier project started at the State Library which identified published materials relating to the Missouri River.

Jennifer Johnson was hired through the State’s Executive Internship Program to review the Missouri River project records and create a finding aid. Richard Popp, the state archivist, and Marvene Riis, government records archivist, directed and supervised the project. Joe Nadenicek, legal counsel for the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, served as a liaison to ensure that the project would meet the Department’s needs.

Over the last 20 years the State Archives collected records from the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, its predecessors, and other agencies as part of its ongoing responsibilities to select and preserve the historical records of South Dakota, and make them available to the public. The Archives staff maintain a database of all these records but had not previously analyzed the records pertaining to Missouri River projects for subject content.

Records are usually transferred to the Archives when they are no longer actively used by the creating office, and when they are no longer needed for administrative or legal purposes. Some records are also donated by private individuals and organizations. Archives staff review thousands of boxes each year and select a small percentage for permanent retention. Records which are deemed to have historical value are catalogued by the name of the creating agency and the date of receipt. Each series heading in the guide represents one accession in the Archives entry log, which may include a single item or many boxes of files.

Because of the way in which records are received by the Archives, files on a particular topic such as the Missouri River Project may be found in many separate series under different headings, depending on the office which created the records, who maintained the files, and who transferred the files to the Archives. Separate series in the guide may contain copies of the same documents, because they were kept by different offices. Gaps also exist. File headings are sometimes vague and documents may be misfiled within folders. Although headings have been edited for spelling and format, for the most part Archives staff retained original file headings and filing systems to preserve the integrity of the records.

The Guide to Missouri River Project Records at the South Dakota State Archives provides researchers with access to documents such as correspondence, minutes, reports, reference publications, and photographs concerning the development of the Missouri River since the early twentieth century. The bulk of the records are from the Department of Environment and Natural Resources and its predecessors, primarily the Department of Water and Natural Resources which was active from 1979 to 1991. The guide also includes records of other state and regional agencies such as the WEB Water Development Association and the Missouri Basin Inter-Agency Committee, files from elected officials including Governor George T. Mickelson and Senator James Abdnor, and relevant portions of general Archives collections such as photographs and vertical files. The records cover Missouri River projects and plans at federal, regional, state, and local levels from 1910 to 1995.

The guide consists mainly of folder-level headings for each record series. Records on particular projects or subjects may be found under different headings in different series. While surveying records to include in the guide, priority was placed on files which document the mainstem Missouri River dams, connected watersheds in central South Dakota and along the James River and Big Sioux River, and projects in those areas concerning hydroelectric power, irrigation, and flood control. Some files are included for the Garrison Project and James River in North Dakota because of their direct connection to the downstream areas across the border. For the most part, records were excluded which focused solely on the Black Hills area, urban waste-water treatment, and farming topics outside of floods, droughts, and irrigation. Researchers interested in these and other related subjects should consult Archives staff for more information about records which may be available.

Although the guide contains hundreds of listings for published reports, publications already catalogued in the Archives library and at the State library were excluded. Researchers should consult the South Dakota Library Network on-line catalog for full information about these holdings.

Only the most obvious collections concerned with Missouri River development were surveyed for inclusion in this guide. Additional materials are likely to be found in many other Archives collections. The records included in this guide constitute only a small percentage, less than three percent, of the approximately 10,000 cubic feet of material maintained at the South Dakota State Archives, and approximately 500 cubic feet of records are added to the collection each year. Additional resources will be added to this guide as they are identified or acquired

Select Chronology

1941 Missouri Valley Regional Planning Commission Created

1943 Missouri River States Committee Formed

1944 Flood Control Act/Pick-Sloan Plan

1945 Rivers and Harbors Act

1945 Establishment of Missouri Basin Inter-Agency Committee

1946 Fort Randall Dam Construction Begins

1946 Garrison Dam Construction Begins

1948 Oahe Dam Ground-Breaking

1952 Fort Randall Dam Completed

1952 Gavins Point Dam Construction Begins

1955 Garrison Dam Completed

1957 Gavins Point Dam Completed

1959 Big Bend Dam Construction Begins

1960 Water Resources Council Created

1962 Oahe Dam Dedication

1964 Big Bend Dam Completed

1965 Water Resources Planning Act

1969 National Environmental Protection Act, Requires Environmental Impact Statements

1972 Missouri River Basin Commission Created

1973 Department of Natural Resources Development (DNRD) Created

1979 Department of Natural Resources Development becomes the Department of Water and Natural Resources (DWNR)

1991 Department of Water and Natural Resources becomes the Department of Environment and Natural Resources

 

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APPA American Public Power Association

BSB Big Sioux Basin

BSL Big Stone Lake

CDBG Community Development Block Grant

CENDAK Central Dakota Water Supply System, Inc.

CENCOAD Center for Community Organization and Area Development, Inc.

CNI Conservation Needs Inventory

COGW County Ground Water

COE Corps of Engineers

DENR Department of Environment and Natural Resources

DEP Department of Environmental Protection

DNRD Department of Natural Resources Development

DWNR Department of Water and Natural Resources

EAFB Ellsworth Air Force Base

EIS Environmental Impact Statement

EPA Environmental Protection Agency

ETSI Energy Transportation System Incorporated

FHA Farmers Home Administration

FWQA Federal Water Quality Administration

GDU Garrison Diversion Unit

GF&P Department of Game Fish and Parks

GWEN Ground Wave Emergency Network

JEM James River Engineering and Management Board

LRC Legislative Research Council

MAPP Mid-Continent Area Power Pool

MBMPA Missouri Basin Municipal Power Agency

MBSA Missouri Basin States Association

MBSG Missouri Basin Systems Group

M&I Municipal and Industrial

MIP Model Implementation Project

MRBC Missouri River Basin Commission

MRBCHS Missouri River Basin Commission Hydrology Study

NALMS North American Lake Management Society

OHWM Ordinary High Water Marks

OWRC Old West Regional Commission

PHS Public Health Service

REAP Rural Environmental Assistance Program

SECOG South Eastern Council of Governments

SIMPCO Siouxland Interstate Metropolitan Planning Commission

SLPC State Lakes Preservation Committee

SLPG State Lakes Preservation Grant

USAFB United States Air Force Base

WAPA Western Area Power Administration

WEB Walworth-Edmunds-Brown Water Development, Inc.

WET Wastewater Effluent Transport

WFCF Water Facility Construction Forms

WPD Water Power District

WR Water Resources, Water Rights

WRA West River Aqueduct

WRC Water Rights Commission/Water Resources Commission

WRWDD West River Water Development District

WW Waste Water

 

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Related Collections in Other South Dakota Repositories

Francis H. Case Papers

Layne Library

Dakota Wesleyan University

Mitchell, South Dakota 57301

(605) 995-2600

Harriet Montgomery Water Resources Collection

Williams Library

Northern State University

Aberdeen, South Dakota 57401

(605) 626-2645

Karl E. Mundt Papers

Karl E. Mundt Library

Dakota State University

Madison, South Dakota 57042

(605) 256-5211

Missouri River Project Collection

I.D. Weeks Library Special Collections

University of South Dakota

Vermillion, South Dakota 57069

(605) 677-5450

Office of the Governor

Governor George S. Mickelson General Files, 1987-1993 (94-39)

Box 5752

• ETSI Lawsuit, 1988-1990 (15 folders)
• Missouri River Lawsuit (S.D. v. Nebraska, Iowa, Missouri), 1986-1988
• S.D. v. Corps of Engineers, 1989-1993 (2 folders)
• S.D. v. Kansas City Southern (ETSI), 1987
• ETSI, 1987

Box 5753

• CENDAK, 1986-1988 (2 folders)
• Garrison Project, 1987-1990
• Gregory Pumped Storage, 1987-1990
• Hilltop and Gray Goose Project, 1986-1992
• James River Water Development, 1986-1989 (2 folders)
• Lake Andes-Wagner Project, 1987-1990 (2 folders)
• Mid-Dakota Rural Water Project, 1988-1992
• Mini Wiconi, 1987-1992 (2 folders)
• WEB Water Development, 1986-1992 (2 folders)
• Western States Water Council, 1987-1988

Box 5754

• Governor’s Water Initiatives, 1987
• Missouri Basin States Association and Upper Missouri River Basin Governor’s Association, 1987-1992
• Missouri River Hydro Power, 1989-1193 (8 folders)
• Water Development, 1987
• Box 5755 Water Development, 1987 (2 folders)
• Missouri River Water Development, 1988
• Water Development, General, 1989-1993 (8 folders)

George T. Mickelson, Papers, Missouri River Files, 1946-1954 (H74-183)

Box 3481A

• Natural Resources Commission
• James River Basin Committee
• Iowa, Missouri River
• Missouri River, North Dakota
• South Dakota Coordinating Committee
• Coordinating Committee Meetings, Pierre, 12/20/49-11/27/50 (5 folders)
• Senate Civil Functions Hearing, Washington D.C., 2/23/50
• Panel Discussion, Pierre, 8/26/49
• Missouri River, Fort Peck, Montana, Emergency Flood Plain
• Miscellaneous, Missouri River

Box 3481B

• Report of Army Engineers, Missouri River
• Missouri River States Committee, Omaha 11/30/49
• Meeting of Coordinating Committee, Missouri River Development, Pierre 10/8/49
• Great Lakes, St. Lawrence Seaway, Missouri River
• South Dakota Coordinating Committee, Pierre, 10/14/49
• Coordinating Committee, Missouri Basin Development, Ft. Randall Dam, Oahe Dam, Pierre 6/29/49
• President’s Water Resources Policy Commission

Box 3482A

• Missouri River States Committee Meeting, Omaha, 7/2/47
• Inter-Agency Committee, Sioux City, 1/19/50
• Inter-Agency Committee, Jefferson City, 5/18/50
• Inter-Agency Committee, Casper, Wyoming, 6/29/50
• Inter-Agency Committee, Minot, North Dakota, 10/5-6/50
• Power Fact-Finding Committee, Aberdeen and Sioux Falls, November 1949
• Arizona Trip, October 3-6, 1949
• Power Legislation Drafting Committee, Pierre, 1/4/50
• Inter-Agency Committee Meeting, Sioux Falls, 3/23/50
• Public Power Suggestions, Citizens, Organizations
• Public Power Suggestions, Legislators
• Power Fact-Finding Committee, Pierre, 11/9/49
• Inter-Agency Committee, North Platte, 12/1/50
• Inter-Agency Committee, Denver, 7/20-21/50

Box 3482B

• Water Conservation and Water General
• National Rivers and Harbors Congress, Washington D.C., April 1949
• Missouri River States Committee, North Platte, 11/30/50
• Hearing before Civil Functions of the War Department, Washington D.C., 4/13/49
• Shadehill Dam Dedication, Lemmon, South Dakota, 9/2/49
• Inter-Agency Committee, Hays, Kansas, 4/20/50
• April 14, 1947 Meeting at Pierre for Discussion of Recreational Facilities on Reservoirs Proposed on Missouri River
• Nebraska Trip, 10/17-21/49
• Missouri River States Committee Meeting, Lincoln, Nebraska, 1/21/48
• Inter-Agency Committee, Fort Peck, Montana, 8/24/50
• "Missouri River Basin Annual Progress Report," U.S. Department of the Interior, June 1949
• "Land Planning and Classification Report of the Public Domain Lands in Eastern South Dakota as Relates to Part A, Units of South Dakota Pumping Division, Part B, Oahe Unit of the James Division," Bureau of Land Management, February 1949
• "Land Planning and Classification Report as Relates to the Public Domain Lands in the Cannonball River Area, North Dakota and South Dakota," Bureau of Land Management, May 1948
• "Land Planning and Classification Report of the Public Domain Lands in Bad River Drainage, South Dakota," Bureau of Land Management, February 1949
• "Land Planning and Classification Report as Relates to the Public Domain Lands in the Grand River Basin, North Dakota and South Dakota," Bureau of Land Management, January 1948

Box 3483A

• Missouri River Development
• National Reclamation Association 1947-1951
• Secretary, Missouri River States Committee
• Statement, Missouri River States Committee
• St. Lawrence Seaway
• Missouri River Development, South Dakota
• Reclamation
• Federal Inter-Agency Missouri River Committee, 1947-1948
• Engineers Board, Missouri River, 1948
• Army Engineers, 1947-1948

Box 3483B

• General 1948
• Missouri River Development, North Dakota, 1947
• National Rivers and Harbors Congress, 1948
• Electrification, 1947-1948
• Missouri River Development, Congress, 1947-1948
• Missouri Basin Clippings, 1946
• James River, 1947-1948
• Irrigation, 1947
• Forestry, 1947
• Missouri River Development, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana

Box 3484A

• Missouri Basin Inter-Agency Committee (2 folders)
• Department of the Interior
• "Progress in the Missouri River Basin," U.S. Department of the Interior, July-November 1950 (5 volumes)

Box 3484B

• Bureau of Reclamation
• Tennessee Valley Authority, Missouri River
• Public Power

Box 3485A

• "Missouri River Basin Power Market Survey, Part One, Power Requirements in the Missouri River Basin," Federal Power Commission, July 1950
• Reclamation Project Data (Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1947)
• South Dakota State College, Missouri River
• White River Flood Damage Reports
• White and Bad Rivers
• South Dakota, Minnesota Boundary Water Commission
• Missouri River, Wyoming
• Red River of the North, Missouri River
• Missouri River, South Dakota
• "Facts and Figures Concerning Yankton, South Dakota," Yankton Chamber of Commerce, September 1948

James Abdnor, Papers, 1963-1974

Box 7980

• Missouri Basin Power Project (1 folder)

Box 7986

• Aurora-Brule Water System
• Lyman-Jones Water System
• Rural Water Systems
• "Aurora-Brule Comprehensive Rural Water Study, 1972," Hoskins, Western, Sonderegger, Inc., November 1972

Box 7988

• Legislative Topic Files on Water Development Legislation

Box 7989

• Legislative Topic Files on Water Development Legislation

Box 7990

• Legislative Topic Files on Water Development Legislation

Box 7996

• Legislative Topic Files on Water Development

Box 7997

• Legislative Topic Files on Water Development

Aerial Views of South Dakota Towns, 1946-1955 (H88-091)

Box 5719

• Chamberlain
• Yankton
• Mobridge

Blizzard and Flood Photographs, 1952 (H96-032)

Box 6074A

• Pierre/Ft. Pierre Flood Photographs, 1952

Council of State Governments, Records, 1935-1968 (H74-069)

Box 3454A

• Folder #4, "Future Development of the Missouri River Valley"

Charles Edmund Deland, Papers, 1890-1935 (H69-005)

Box 3339A

• Folder #6, Missouri River Navigation Congress, 1908
• Folder #7, Waterways and Navigation, 1909
• Folder #8, Waterways and Navigation, 1910
• Folder #10, Waterways and Navigation, 1933-1935
• Folder #11, Waterways and Navigation, 1926-1931
• Folder #12, Waterways and Navigation, 1933-1935
• Folder #13, Waterways and Navigation, Miscellaneous

Box 3339B

• Folder #22, Speeches, Articles and Poems: (Items inside folder)

• "Upper Missouri Navigation, A Controlling Factor," August 10, 1908
• "Missouri River and Deep Waterways," October 24, 1908
• "Missouri River Strategy in International Commerce," May 18, 1908
• Untitled Article on the Need for Deep Water Navigation, October 8, 1909
• "Sisterhood of Cities in Waterways Movement," November 29, 1909
• "Kansas City and the Boat Line," March 24, 1919

Box 3340A

• Folder #26, Miscellaneous Papers:
• Proceedings of the First Annual Convention of the Missouri River Navigation Congress at Sioux City, Iowa, January 22-23, 1908

Ft. Randall Construction Photos, 1948-1949 (H89-040)

Box 5514A

• Ft Randall Reservoir/Dam Photographs

General Collection Photographs

P072

• Angostura Dam

P076

• Big Bend Dam

P119-120

• Capitol Lake

P088

• Farm Island

P095

• Fort Pierre

P094

• Fort Niobrara

P099, P194-196

• Missouri River

P29-30

• Oahe Dam

P034

• Pickstown/Fort Randall Dam

P028-30

• Pierre

Robert Hipple Collection (H98-84)

Box 6907B

• Missouri Basin Inter-Agency Committee, reports, Pierre, South Dakota, October 7, 1964 and Sioux City, Iowa, December 4, 1964
• "Address by W. G. Sloan before the Mississippi Valley Association," St. Louis, Missouri, February 7, 1950
• "Engineering and Feasibility Study of the Gray Goose Water Users Project," V. Melvin Brown, P.E., January 1968
• "The Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965," Remarks of W. W. Dresskell, Bureau of Outdoor Recreation, December 4, 1964
• "Meeting with Contractors at Pierre, SD, for Discussion of Construction Program for Oahe Dam, October 19, 1954," U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
• Missouri River Inter-Agency Committee, minutes, Shenandoah, Iowa, June 21-22, 1951
• Missouri River Inter-Agency Committee, minutes and reports, Pierre, South Dakota, May 7, 1952
• Missouri River States Committee minutes, Omaha, Nebraska, April 15, 1965
• Oahe Conservancy Sub-District Board of Directors Meeting, minutes, Huron, South Dakota, December 16, 1970
• Miscellaneous reports
• The Missouri River Basin Development Program (Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office, June 1952)
• "Power Market Survey, Missouri River Basin, Area D – Nebraska, Part I – Power Requirements," Federal Power Commision, November 1947
• "Preliminary Draft: Missouri River Basin Compact," Council of State Governments, August 1952
• Press Releases, 1952-1964
• "The Provisions of the Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act," Soil Conservation Service, December 7, 1954
• "Report on the Drainability of Lands in the Oahe Unit of the Missouri River Basin Project," Consulting Board, Oahe Unit, December 31, 1954
• "Rules and Regulations of Oil and Gas," Department of Natural Resource Development, Division Geological Survey, n.d.
• South Dakota Supreme Court, Robert D. Orr, et al. vs. Richard F. Kniep, et al. and Oahe Conservancy Subdistrict, Defendant and Appellant’s Reply Brief on Appeal, August 1979
• Water and Oil Well Documents, 1959-1971
• "Water Resources Development in South Dakota," U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, January 1, 1953

Images of South Dakota, 1910 (H91-053)

Box 5518B

• Missouri River at Le Beau

Miscellaneous Photographs, 1900 (H87-046)

Box 5719

• Pierre Photographs

Missouri Basin Inter-Agency Committee, General Files (79-125)

Box 2148A

• General Files 1-4 (4 folders)

Missouri Basin Inter-Agency Committee, Minutes, 1951-1972 (79-125)

Box 657

• Jefferson, February 9, 1951 (canceled)
• Yankton, South Dakota April 18, 1951
• Bozeman, Montana May 24-25, 1951
• Shenandoah, Iowa June 21-22, 1951
• Grand Lake, Colorado July 19-20, 1951
• Worland, Wyoming August 24-25, 1951
• Bismarck, North Dakota October 24-25, 1951
• Topeka, Kansas December 11-12, 1951
• Hastings, Nebraska January 24, 1952
• Kansas City, Missouri March 20, 1952
• Pierre, South Dakota May 7-8, 1952
• Sioux City, Iowa June 24-25, 1952
• General Correspondence 1952-1954
• Programming Sub-Committee
• Helena, Montana July 16-17, 1952
• Denver, Colorado August 20-21, 1952
• Bismarck, North Dakota October 28, 1954
• Omaha, Nebraska December 1-2, 1952
• Sioux City, Iowa January 28, 1953
• Torrington, Wyoming March 25-26, 1953
• Pickstown, South Dakota April 30-May 1, 1953
• Huron, South Dakota May 20-21, 1953

Box 658

• St. Paul, Minnesota June 25-26, 1953
• Lewistown, Montana July 30-31, 1953
• Loveland, Colorado August 26-27, 1953
• Topeka, Kansas December 3, 1953
• Jefferson City, Missouri January 27, 1954
• Des Moines, Iowa March 31, 1954
• North Platte, Nebraska May 5-6, 1954
• Yellowstone Park June 24-25, 1954
• Rapid City, South Dakota July 21-22, 1954
• Sidney, Montana September 8-9, 1954
• Topeka, Kansas December 7, 1954
• Kansas City, Kansas February 16, 1956
• Chillicothe, Missouri March 29, 1956
• Wheatland, Wyoming May 9, 1956
• Billings, Montana May 9, 1956
• Billings, Montana June 19, 1956
• Grand Lakes, Colorado August 10, 1956
• Mitchell, South Dakota September 13, 1956
• Dickinson, North Dakota November 8, 1956
• St. Joseph, Missouri March 20, 1957

Box 659

• East Glacier, Montana June 25-26, 1958
• St. Paul, Minnesota August 27, 1958
• Bismarck, North Dakota October 14, 1958
• Denver, Colorado December 10, 1958
• Kansas City, Missouri February 18, 1959
• Council Bluffs, Iowa April 16, 1959
• Douglas, Wyoming June 10, 1959
• Helena, Montana August 13-14, 1959
• Watertown, South Dakota October 15, 1959
• Atchinson, Kansas December 17, 1959
• Grand Forks, North Dakota April 20, 1960
• Canyon Village, Yellowstone National Park June 24, 1960
• Boulder, Colorado August 19, 1960
• Jefferson City, Missouri October 20, 1961
• Sioux City, Iowa December 15, 1960
• St. Paul, Minnesota February 9, 1961
• Casper, Wyoming April 27, 1961
• Yankton, South Dakota May 25, 1961
• Ft. Collins, Colorado August 3, 1961
• Minot, North Dakota October 24, 1961
• Topeka, Kansas December 14, 1961
• Omaha, Nebraska February 15, 1962
• Jefferson City, Missouri April 26, 1962
• Billings, Montana June 21, 1962
• Pierre, South Dakota August 9, 1962
• Sioux City, Iowa October 11, 1962
• Colorado Springs, Colorado December 13-14, 1962
• Vicksburg, Mississippi February 20, 1963
• Manhattan, Kansas April 25, 1963
• Jackson Lodge, Wyoming June 18-19 1963

Box 660A

• Standing Committee Minutes August 28, 1963-May 1,1969
• Standing Committee Executive Group Minutes August 24, 1964-April 22, 1969
• Standing Committee Work Group 1 Minutes June 17, 1964-September 19, 1967
• Standing Committee Work Group 2 Minutes September 15, 1964-April 8, 1968
• Standing Committee Work Group 3 Minutes June 17, 1964-January 25, 1968

Box 660B

• Standing Committee Work Group 4 Minutes June 2, 1964-August 16, 1967
• Standing Committee Work Group 5 Minutes October 28, 1964-December 17, 1968
• Pierre, South Dakota September 23-24, 1969
• Sioux City, Iowa December 3-4, 1969
• Kansas City, Kansas March 25-26, 1970
• Ft. Collins, Colorado July 8-9, 1970
• Sheridan, Wyoming September 17, 1970
• Bismarck, North Dakota December 9-10, 1970
• Bloomington, Minnesota March 24-25, 1971
• Omaha, Nebraska June 23-24, 1971
• Kansas City, Missouri September 22-23, 1971
• Great Falls, Montana December 8-9, 1971
• Rapid City, South Dakota March 22-23, 1972
• Council Bluffs, Iowa June 14-15, 1972

Missouri River Development, Records 1920-1967 (H82-008)

Box 3590A

• Folders #1-13, Reports 1920-1953 (13 folders)
• Folders #14-15, Government Documents (2 folders)
• Folder #16, Conference 1944
• Folder #17, Magazine Article
• Folder #18, Miscellaneous

Postcard Views of South Dakota (H87-038)

Box 5719

• Missouri River Boat

Photographs of Historic Sites Along the Missouri River, 1940s (89-172)

Box 5719

• Historic Sites along Missouri River

Photographs of Marion’s Island, 1890 (H88-099)

Box 5719

• Marion’s Island

Doane Robinson, Papers, 1880-1946 (H74-009)

Box 3359B

• Folder # 15, Correspondence, 1914: (Items Inside Folder)

• Manuscript on Missouri River Development, Harper’s Weekly August 15, 1914
• Correspondence, Irrigation Movement, September 1914
• Correspondence, South Dakota Irrigation Association, September 1914
• Correspondence, Irrigation Movement, September 16, 1914 from George V. Ayres
• Correspondence, Irrigation Movement, October 2, 1914, from Joseph R. Bush

• Folder # 17, Correspondence, 1916:

• South Dakota Irrigation Association, March 4, 1916, from Charles A. Nystrom

• Folder #19, Correspondence, 1916:

• Missouri River Power Sites, February 27, 1916, from William J. Mundt

• Folder #23, Correspondence, 1922:

• Missouri River Development, June 2, 1922, from F.M. Goodman
• Missouri River Development, December 1922, to Mark W. Woods

• Folder #28, Correspondence, 1931-1934:

• Missouri River Development, February 3, 1934, to Sioux Falls Argus Leader

Box 3366A

• Folder #241, Miscellaneous Manuscripts:

• "Power from the Missouri"
• "Flood Protection"

• Folder #242, Miscellaneous Manuscripts:

• "Little Bend of the Missouri River"
• "An Internal Improvement" (concerning the Missouri River)
• "The Missouri River Bridges"

Box 3367B

• Folder #259, Subject File, and Oversize File #2:

• Material Collected by Robinson Concerning Hydro-Electric Development in South Dakota

• Oversize Folder #1:

• Issue of the Dakota Farmer, April 1, 1916, which Contains "The Missouri’s Call" and "Harnessing a Hope," both by Robinson

• Oversize Folder #2:

• Pamphlet, "Navigation of the Missouri River through the Dakotas," Pierre Commercial Club, 1931
• Article, "State Must Develop Missouri River Project," 2 copies
• Reprint of Speech by Robinson Promoting Water Power Development
• Petition Requesting Vote on Hydro-Electric Power Plant
• Poster, "Vote Yes on Initiated Law No.1 State Owned Hydro- Electric," 1921 (2 copies)
• Map, "Possibility of Hydro-Electric at Big Bend," L.O. Berg, 1923
• Map, Little Bend Proposed Dam by the State Engineer
• Map, "C.B. Billinghurst’s Hydro-Electric Power Map," 1918 (2 copies)

Vertical Files

• Angostura Reservoir
• Bad River
• Big Bend, Oahe Inter-Agency Council
• Big Bend Condemnation
• Big Bend Dam/Reservoir I-V
• Big Stone City
• Big Stone Lakes
• Chamberlain
• Cheyenne River
• Farm Island History
• Flood Control
• Floods
• Fort Randall
• Fort Thompson
• Gavins Point Dam and Reservoir
• Grand River Floods
• Historic Points along the Missouri River
• La Framboise Island
• Little White River Basin
• Missouri River
• Missouri River Bridges
• Missouri River Sub-Impoundment
• Mobridge
• Oahe Dam
• Oahe Dam Dedication
• Oahe Development Association
• Oahe Diversion Project
• Oahe Peoria Bottom
• Oahe Reservoir Area
• Pierre, Historical
• Pierre, Historical Clippings
• Pierre History
• Reclamation
• Recreation, Outdoor Development in Hughes and Stanley Counties
• Shadehill Reservoir
• Steamboat, Data
• Steamboat, Logs
• Steamboat, Wrecks
• Steamboats
• Vermillion
• Water Resources
• Yankton

WEB Water Development Association, Minutes, Correspondence, Newsclippings, Newsletters, and Pamphlets, 1970-1996 (H96-1 and H96-15)

Box 5943

• Mae Zemlicka Plaque
• Various, 1970s
• Engineering Content Report, 1975
• Various, 1980s
• Guest Editorial; September 12, 1988, Tom Morrow; September 19, 1988
• News Clippings, Articles, 1988-1996
• Reports to Bulk Users, 1989-1990
• Various, 1990
• Minutes, February-December 1990 (13 folders)
• U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Missouri Main Stem Reservoirs Annual Operating Plan, 1990-1991
• Various, 1991
• Minutes, January-December 1991 (8 folders)

Box 6076

• Minutes, January 1992-July 1994

Box 6077

• Future of Water Resource Development in South Dakota, Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Water and Power of the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate (Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1981)
• Minutes, August 1994-January 1996 (12 folders)
• Harriet Montgomery Water Resources Collection, Northern State College
• Oversize Materials, 1972-1992 (3 folders)
• Water Project/Board Minutes, 1990-1995 (2 folders)
• Water Project/Correspondence, 1974-1994
• Water Project/Mae Zemlicka, 1974-1993
• Water Project/Newsclippings
• Water Project/Newsletters, 1982, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994
• Water Project/Pamphlets

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