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Designer Jewelry, Men's Jewelry, Women's Jewelry, gold jewelryAbout Black Hills Gold Jewelry
Black Hills Gold Leaf Earrings
Black Hills Gold on Silver Marquise Earrings
Black Hills Gold jewelry has a history that is straight out of the old west. In an isolated area of South Dakota and Wyoming, the Black Hills and the town of Deadwood are known for Crazy Horse, George Armstrong Custer, Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane, and have been immortalized in numerous westerns. The homeland of first the Cheyenne, then the Lakota tribe, the area was forcefully taken over by settlers around 1860 when gold and silver was discovered. One settler, S.T. Butler, is credited for being the first to design “Black Hills Gold” jewelry. Tri-colored gold leaves, grapevines and flowers are intrinsic and heavily detailed in this unique and beautiful jewelry created for both men and women. Butler’s family continued and expanded on his original design and a grandson, F.L. Thorpe, established a jewelry manufacturing company in 1909 along with a partner, E.O. Lampinen. Although Thorpe was known as the premier artisan, the partnership split up. Lampinen’s business was bought by Ivan Landstrom in 1944 who moved it out of Deadwood. In 1980 a court ruling declared that any jewelry described as “Black Hills Gold” must actually be made in the Black Hills. Eventually, Landstrom purchased the Thorpe company and settled in the Black Hills where the company remains the leading producer of Black Hills Gold jewelry.
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