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Ft Sisseton Historical Festival By Cassandra Swanson

June 10th, 2014 |

LAKE CITY, SD-The 39th Fort Sisseton Historical Festival was held June 7-8 at the Fort near Lake City, SD. Sunny Skies greeted the 6 competition chuck wagons as they prepared meals for the event sponsors. The wagons cooked roast beef, potatoes, beans, biscuits, and dessert on Saturday, then each wagon helped two kids prepare and apple crisp for the Sunday Kid’s pie baking contest. Held the first week of June each year, this is one of the best events in the state – put it on your schedule for next year as the Festival celebrates it’s 40th Anniversary with cowboys, mountain men, rendezvousers, the Cavalry and Frontier Army of the Dakotas – as well as hundreds of re-enactors from the 1890’s, period and modern vendors, music, song and dance and MORE!

Kid’s Pie Winners: 1-Kylie Hanebuth, Huron, SD, cooked with CCC 2-Koen Metzger, Mitchell, SD, cooked with DT 3-Raina Carter, Watertown, SD, cooked with Sweet Sally Sue

The Chuck Wagons were: Bob Glanzer’s “Sweet Sally Sue” of Huron, SD; JT Hallson’s “Lost Creek” of Dassel, MN; Bruce Prinze’s Prairie Sky of SD with cooks Brad & Leann of Chetek, WI; Patrick’s “DT” of Watertown, SD; Dan & Carol MacCaffree’s “Musselshell” of Round Up, MT and Wes Stigen’s “CCC” wagon of Iola, WI. Thank you wagon owners, sponsors, organizers and participants.