Charles Badger Clark

[1][6] His family moved to Dakota Territory, where his father served as a Methodist preacher in Huron, Mitchell, Deadwood and Hot Springs,[1][2][3] preaching at Calamity Jane's funeral.

[1][6] He travelled to Cuba, returned to Deadwood, South Dakota, where he contracted tuberculosis, then moved to Tombstone, Arizona to assuage his illness with the dry weather.

With time on his hands, he wrote letters back to his family in South Dakota, sometimes describing his new world in verse.

In 1925, he moved to a cabin in Custer State Park in the Black Hills of South Dakota, where he lived for thirty years and continued to write poetry.

[3] He's buried at Evergreen Cemetery, Hot Springs, South Dakota (Block 4, Section M, Lot 7).