SCOUTING YESTERDAY | South Dakota’s last 'Mole Man' leaves dugout after 40 years
This week in South Dakota history: Nov. 21-28
Western South Dakota’s mole man left his hole for good 75 years ago this week.
As South Dakota was first settled, the lack of trees left pioneers cutting and stacking pieces of the prairie to create sod houses or removing the side of a hill to create a dugout.
But Loren Slocum took a different approach to earthen architecture — digging down.
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