The Timber Lake, South Dakota area included a large settlement of Germans from Russia with ancestry to the former Black Sea German villages of the Kutschurgan District today new Odessa, Ukraine.
The Table of Contents includes: I. Geology; II. The First People; III. Early Indian Communities; IV. Ranching; V. The Homesteading Era; VI. Timber Lake; VII. Dewey County; VIII. Business Histories; IX. The Depression; X. Our Veterans of Military Service; XI. Other Communities; XII. Transportation; XIII. Churches; XIV. Schools; XV. Farming and Farm Programs; XVI. Climate and Weather; XVII. Medicine and Health; XVIII. Law and Order; XIX. Clubs and Organizations; XX. Rodeos and Celebrations; XXI. Why They Call It Home; Index for Section 1; Family Histories; Index for Family Histories and Selected Bibliography.
The Family Histories includes these names: Aberle, Adams, Alley, Alquist, Anderson, Austin, Backes, Bader, Baer, Barlett, Bellum, Bentley, Berfield, Bickel, Biegler, Blasingame, Boehler, Booth, Bornong, Bowder, Brockamp, Brodahl, Brown, Butler, Byington, Card, Carlson, Caswell, Chalmers, Chapel, Clausen, Clarambeau, Claymore, Condon, Coraguilo, Coull, Coyle, Crain, Crance, Cudmore, Daczewitz, Dahlgren, Dahlke, Dale, Davis, Dignan, Dikoff, Dillman, Dollarhide, Dopita, Dougal, Drees, Ducheneaux, Ehly, Ehrenberg, Elder, Ellwein, Engelson, Enger, Enright, Erickson, Ericson, Fahy, Fett, Fjeldseth, Flanagan, French, Fudge, Gage, Galbraith, Gellner, Gibson, Gill, Goldade, Grage, Green, Gunderson, Haack, Hacecky, Hagel, Hagen, Hanken, Hanson, Harvey, Hayes, Hazledine, Hegre, Hellesund, Hendricksen, Herman, Hermes, Herstein, Hieb, Hire, Hockett, Hodam, Hollenbeck, Holloway, Holt, Holzer, Horse with Horn, Huddleston, Hulm, Humann, Hunt, Hunter, Jackson, Jacobson, Jensen, Jess, Johnson, Johnston, Jones, Jung, Kamps, Keller, Kempf, Kern, Kesling, Klein, Kluth, Knudson, Koegel, Kougl, Kraft, Lang, LaPlante, LaPlant, Larsen, Larson, Laundreaux, Lawien, LeCompte, Leff, Lenling, Lind, Linderman, Lipp, Lippert, Long, Lutz, Maciejewski, Macy, Mader, Madsen, Maher, Majorowicz, Malloy, Marshall, Martin, McCarthy, McClellan, McGuire, McMacken, McNeely, Meyer, Meyerhoefer, Miller, Miner, Minton, Mitchell, Mogstad, Mowrer, Mozeney, Mulloy, Murdock, Murphy, Nash, O’Leary, Olson, Opp, Ostrom, Pahl, Parker, Paul, Pederson, Perry, Petersen, Peterson, Pleinis, Plummer, Podoll, Prann, Quinn, Raile, Rawstron, Reed, Reedich, Reich, Reichert, Reinbold, Reinert, Reitnauer, Rempfer, Rhoden, Rice, Richter, Rickels, Riemath, Rivers, Robley, Rochlitz, Roebuck, Ross, Rousseau, Rowley, Sanders, Sandquist, Schaeffer, Schafffner, Scherer, Schlonga, Schlosser, Schreiner, Schumacher, Schweitzer, Scott, Sevrens, Sadduck, Sherman, Silbernagel, Simpson, Singer, Slauter, Sletten, Smith, Smolik, Snow, Solberg, Speer, Springer, Stanek, Stavnes, Stoick, Storm, Strong, Stummeier, Sudmeier, Taggart, Taplin, Taylor, TePoel, Thares, Thill, Thomas, Thompson, Thwing, Tipton, Tompkins, Torevell, Traversie, Urban, Utley, Vander Mark, Vogel, Voller, Wagner, Ward, Warrior, Waters, Wendt, Wessel, Whalen, Whitman, Wiese, Wilcox, Williams, Williamson, Winterberg, Wood, and Wynn.
