Historic cemetery program at Sundance library

Crook County Library in Sundance will host a program by Beulah resident Vernon Davis on Friday, February 15 at 7 p.m. in the library meeting room. The program is free and open to the public. The topic of Mr. Davis' program will be "Saving the Past: Preserving Historic Black Hills Cemeteries."

Davis has longtime ties to this area that date back to his ancestor, Buckskin Johnny Spaulding, who led a wagon train into the Black Hills in 1876 and helped build the Spearfish stockade to protect settlers in the area from Indian raids. After stones marking resting places of his relatives and Civil Wa...