Sadie Robinson became an older sister in 1856 but could not pronounce her baby brother's first name. So she called Jonah LeRoy Robinson "Doane," and his family name stuck.When he came of age, Doane ...
When I was driving cross-country about 20 years ago, I stopped at the Black Hills of South Dakota to see Mount Rushmore. It's quite a sight - the heads of four U.S. presidents, each about 60 feet tall ...
PIERRE | Jonah Leroy (Doane) Robinson (1856-1946) was secretary of the South Dakota State Historical Society and superintendent of the State Department of History from 1901 to 1926. As superintendent ...
PIERRE – Two pieces of correspondence, one sent in August 1924 by State Historian Doane Robinson to sculptor Gutzon Borglum concerning a “heroic sculpture of unusual character” in the Black Hills of ...