[applause] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2017] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] interested in American History tv . Visit our website, cspan. Org history. You can preview programs, watch college lectures, archival films, and more. Cspan. Org history. To year, south dakota on American History tv. Located on the Missouri River, this capital city is the second smallest in the u. S. With a 13,000. On of just over with help from our Cable Partners in the next hour we will explode his we will e,plore the history of pierr beginning with the State Capitol building. Mr. Venhuizen pierre is a pretty small town as far as capitals go. Fort pierre is another 2500 people. Between the two, probably 15,000 people. Not only is it small, but it is pretty remote. It was selected as the state capital because it is in the middle of the state. It is really a two or two and a half hou
A farm or ranch. That is our strength. We are also a tourist destination. We have Mount Rushmore, the badlands. Lots of things that ring tourism that brings tourism to south dakota. We are also a Financial Services locale. People would not think that. But in the early 1980s, when the Interest Rates were skyrocketing and citibank was losing money in new york, they were they moved their credit card operation to south dakota, where it continues to be based. Other credit card issuers have followed wells fargos ace here. Quite a few credit card operations. We are Financial Services locale, people do not think of us that way. Reporter lives in south dakota . I would say our democrats are not different than the nation. We maybe have a few older people than our population might be older than the nation as a whole. We are increasingly urbanized in the sense that people in the rural areas are moving to more populated areas. That is chiefly because farming and ranching is more efficient in larger
It is our number one industry. Today, it is the foundation of our economy. I grew up on a farm, many people in south dakota are one or two generations or immediately off a farm or ranch. That is our strength. We are also a tourist destination. We have Mount Rushmore, the badlands. Lots of things that ring tourism that brings tourism to south dakota. We are also a Financial Services locale. People would not think that. But in the early 1980s, when the Interest Rates were skyrocketing and citibank was losing money in new york, they were they moved their credit card operation to south dakota, where it continues to be based. Other credit card issuers have followed wells fargos ace here. Quite a few credit card operations. We are Financial Services locale, people do not think of us that way. Reporter lives in south dakota . Gov. Daugaard i would say our democrats are not different than the nation. We maybe have a few older people than our population might be older than the nation as a whole
Either. In jessup, brad bell, abc7 news. Alison keep us posted. Thank you. Get breaking test alert from abc7 news. Sign up on the website wjla. Com text. Larry breaking news out of Prince Georges County where amtrak trains are delayed after a train hit someone on the track. It happened in lanham near annapolis road. That person is dead. Metro is honoring penn line tickets tonight. Jeff goldberg just getting on the scene. Go to him live for the latest. What can you tell us . We can tell you that the amtrak train is not going anywhere. Its stuck on the line. This is in the area that is north of the New Carrollton station. We can see across the line there, that looks to be heading north. We have some sense that travel is moving on this train is not going anywhere. We believe by all accounts this is the train that struck the individual. 2 30 this afternoon. A person struck by silver star. Stops in the d. C. Area. 136 passengers on board the amtrak train. We were able to see some of them th
In the fireside room. Today were going to be looking at items from our local History Collection which is called the boggs collection. So the collection is named after may bacon boggs. She moved as a child out to Shasta County in 1871, and she grew up here in old shasta. And she had had a love for history and particularly transportation and early california history. So she, throughout her life she was collecting items, and she did collect books, and she ended up giving some of her a portion of her collection plus a cabinet to the library, and that was the start of the boggs collection. Now the boggs collection has grown, and weve outgrown the cabinet [laughter] and we are now in many cabinets. It consists of probably about 5,000 items. And the collection focuses on early california history, native americans but then particularly the history of Shasta County. So this collection is important because it is a way for us to preserve the past and learn about the past in Shasta County. And wev