Town note
The town's motto is 'the cowboy capital' of the 1,200 people of the surrounding area.
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FILE 506 / 29 June 2024 / 71 MIN / express
James says they are going to Lemmon, South Dakota, 'l-e-m-m-o-n like the man', in the north-western part of the state, three blocks from North Dakota. about 0:03:28
The town's motto is 'the cowboy capital' of the 1,200 people of the surrounding area.
about 0:05:28The US government leased George Ed 'Boss Cowman' Lemmon about 800,000 acres of the Standing Rock Indian Reservation because he was a cattle rancher.
about 0:05:38He bought the land for the town site and wanted his town to be the county seat, but it never became the county seat.
about 0:06:13Railroad officials named the town after him, figuring he was a pain in the ass.
about 0:06:20The town's motto is 'the cowboy capital' of the 1,200 people of the surrounding area.
about 0:05:28The US government leased George Ed 'Boss Cowman' Lemmon about 800,000 acres of the Standing Rock Indian Reservation because he was a cattle rancher.
about 0:05:38He bought the land for the town site and wanted his town to be the county seat, but it never became the county seat.
about 0:06:13Railroad officials named the town after him, figuring he was a pain in the ass.
about 0:06:20George Ed Lemmon died in Lemmon in 1945.
about 0:06:30Some sources say Lemmon was a sundown town in the 1920s, but James could not find it in the official listings and thinks it may have been misreported.
about 0:06:38Crime overall
▼ very low
"1,252"
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"$41,875"
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"$97,900"
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"very low"
Direction: below.
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3.6 / 5 · average of 5
“Very warm and inviting; the only thing the reviewer would change is the availability of fun activities in town.”about 0:07:05
“A small town of about 1,300 people, safe for families, with a very low crime rate and one public school, so sport matters a lot.”about 0:07:18
“The sports scene is amazing; with 1,200 people you can watch sophomores run around all day.”about 0:07:54
“Good for a small town though not comparable to a bigger town; there are several bars and they also serve food.”about 0:08:02
“Average but not excellent: the grocery store lacks a wide variety of fruit and vegetables, while the gas stations and pharmacy are well maintained.”about 0:08:20
“There are many jobs in Lemmon but most do not offer good hours or good pay, and there are no paramedics in town.”about 0:09:46
Walter Gibbs was born on 10 August 1904 in Wahoo, Nebraska, the only child of Fred and Laura Gibbs, ranchers who moved to Morristown, near Lemmon, South Dakota, in 1910 to homestead. He grew up on the ranch, attended a one-room country school and became a reliable ranch hand; friends remembered him fiddling for hours and said he was shy with women and never had a romance.
They remarried in 1977, when he was seventy-four, and divorced again that year.
They divorced in 1980, remarried in 1982 and divorced again in December 1983, by which time Walter had rented out the farm and moved into Lemmon proper. He married June Penny in 1984 and divorced her in 1986.
On 20 August 1989 a fire broke out in the living room while Walter slept; a neighbour saved him and put it out, and the house burned down the next day.
On 4 January 1990 the twins went to attorney Jeff Rottier without an appointment to have the will revised.
There were no injuries; the death was ruled natural, with no autopsy.
Baskin contacted Robert Overturf of the South Dakota Division of Criminal Investigation.
Walter's body was exhumed on 6 May 1991. The autopsy found diphenhydramine pellets in his stomach, the active ingredient in sleeping pills, and the death was ruled a homicide.
March 31 to April 1, 1990 / his home in Lemmon, South Dakota
As told in the episode, on 29 June 2024.
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