A free-lance writer for most of his professional career, he was a charter inductee into the South Dakota Heritage Hall of Fame and later received that organization's Writer-of-the Year Award. Other awards include the South Dakota Newspaper Association's Distinguished Citizen of the Year; the South Dakota Council of Teachers of English's Author of the Year; and the A. H. Pankow Media Award presented at the annual Governor's Conference on Tourism.

His writing honors include the Wrangler Statuette from the National Cowboy Hall of Fame, Oklahoma City, for Where Your Heart Is, the biography of artist Harvey Dunn; the Western American Award for Achievement from the Center for Western Studies (Augustana College); and, the Artistic Achievement Award of the South Dakota Art Museum, Brookings. This year, he was inducted into the South Dakota Newspaper Hall of Fame.

The author of 34 books of varied scope and subject matter plus several thousand newspaper and magazine articles and features, his weekly column, "Writer-at-Large," appears in a number of South Dakota papers (including Vermillion's The Plain Talk). He writes a weekly historical column for the Yankton Daily Press and Dakotan entitled, "The Way it Was." He resides at Cedar Crest Farm, near Mission Hill, South Dakota.

Mr. Karolevitz's paper is entitled: "History from Small Places--Brave Bear: The Rest of the Story."

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