Book excerpt: America’s 250th, South Dakota meadowlarks and the ‘great course of freedom’

Book excerpt: America’s 250th, South Dakota meadowlarks and the ‘great course of freedom’

A western meadowlark at the LaCreek National Wildlife Refuge near Martin, South Dakota. (Photo by Tom Koerner/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)The following excerpt is reprinted with permission from the new book “This Far Country: South Dakota Lines on the 250th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence,” by Joseph Bottum with illustrations by Jeanne Bowman. The book is published by the South Dakota Historical Society Press.   The Meadowlark …