SCOUTING YESTERDAY | Newspaper tribute marked legacy of ‘Aunt Lou,’ Black Hills trailblazer
This week in South Dakota history: Jan. 9-15
Queen City Mail readers were reminded of the extraordinary life of one of the regions earliest Black Hills’ settlers a century ago of this week.
The tribute sent to the newspaper by a personal friend of Lucretia Marchbanks and published Jan. 13, 1926, recalled the former slave’s no-nonsense, motherly influence on some of the most legendary figures of the old west.
