“It’s just nice to live in a community where you’re not rushing every place you go.” The Lakota Sioux and the Cheyenne fought over what eventually gave Hot Springs, South Dakota, its name in 1882: the natural warm waters. “Fred Evans was the one who really developed Hot Springs in its early days. He was a promoter out of Sioux City in Iowa,” Eddie Clay says. The Evans Plunge opened in 1890, and it is still the largest enclosed swimming pool, attracting thousands of visitors a
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