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Mapping the Black Hills: Valentine T. McGillycuddy

by | Aug 6, 2009 | Travel & Preservation

From Devils Lake, North Dakota, to Wounded Knee, South Dakota. 
Valentine T. McGillcuddy, weak and on the verge of becoming an alcoholic after a stint as a doctor at the Wayne County Insane Asylum in Detroit, started a new career as a topographical engineer and cartographer when he was in his early 20s. He worked on surveys of the Great Lakes and the city of Chicago, following its great fire in 1871. He first saw the Great


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