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PICTORIAL HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES AND TERRITORIES
#45 - SOUTH DAKOTA
Size: 3" x 5"
Copyrighted: 1892
Lithographer: Donaldson Bros.
  
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Left section:
GRIND
YOUR COFFEE AT HOME
Right section: |
| SOUTH DAKOTA. |
| THE territory of Dakota
came into existence in 1861. This
great Indian domain received here
and there wandering
French-Canadian trappers or
traders, who married Sioux
maidens, and dwelt among the
wigwams. After Lewis and Clark's
exploring expedition ascended the
Missouri, in 1804-6, the many fur
companies pushed their pioneer
posts up the river. In 1830-32
the steamboats "Yellowstone"
and "Assinniboine" ascended
the stream, the pioneers of a
vast company. In 1851 the Indians
signed the treaty of Traverse des
Sioux, ceding to the United
States the territory between the
Minnesota line and the Big Sioux
River. This grant was followed by
subsequent concessions. The first
settlement was established at
Sioux Falls in 1857. The people
were driven out several times by
the Indians, but as often
returned. Unceasing trouble with
the natives culminated in 1862 in
the Sioux war, when the frontiers
were ravaged for hundreds of
miles, and all the Dakota
settlers fled to Yankton. After
the savages were thoroughly
subdued, and United States
garrisons studded the country, a
great flood of immigration poured
into the Territory, whose amazing
crops of grain speedily
astonished the Western world. |
| ILLUSTRATIONS. |
An
Old-Time Buffalo Hunt; First
Settlement at Sioux Falls,
1857; Indians Attacking the
Deadwood Stage. |
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