Peggy Detmers is an American sculptor of metal.^[2] She specializes in bronze wildlife, and displays her work at international wildlife shows. Detmers is a fourth-generation South Dakotan. She graduated from South Dakota State University in 1980 with a Bachelor of Science in biology and wildlife and fisheries management.^[3] Detmers lives and works in Rapid City, South Dakota.^[4]

In 2012, Peggy Detmers lost^[5] a legal battle with actor Kevin Costner. She created Lakota Bison Jump, 17 large multimillion-dollar bronze statues of mounted American Indians driving a buffalo herd off a cliff. The statues were meant to be a centerpiece of 'The Dunbar', a Deadwood, South Dakota resort developed by Costner. The resort was never created and Detmers sued for breach of contract. The case reached the South Dakota Supreme Court.^[6] The sculpture is now part of an interpretive center called 'Tatanka: Story of the Bison'.^[7]