The Black Hills Pioneer is the flagship publication of Seaton Publishing Company, Inc. South Dakota.
It is part of a family owned newspaper and digital media company providing local journalism to western South Dakota.
[citation needed] In addition, Seaton publishes The Nation's Center News, the official weekly newspaper for Harding County, including the communities of Buffalo and Camp Crook, with over 1,200 subscribers.
Over 23,000 copies of The Prospector are carrier delivered, direct-mailed, and in newsstands in Lawrence, Meade, Butte, and Harding counties in South Dakota, northeast Wyoming and southeast Montana.
Merrick and the Black Hills Weekly Pioneer are portrayed in the HBO television series Deadwood.