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and soon became the leading authority on all questions relating to the Isthmian canal in the Senate. While this has been his most-distinguished service, he has neglected nothing that pertained to the interests of the South Dakota people.
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1683. Le Sueur probably visited Sioux Falls to buy furs which he shipped by flatboat to the mouth of Mississippi.
1700. Le Sueur's traders from Fort L'Huillier (Mankato, Minne- sota) traded on Big Sioux River at Flandreau and Sioux Falls.
1743. Vérendrye visited western part of South Dakota and claimed soil for French king. Planted lead plate inscribed with arms of France, probably near Pierre.
1745. De Lusigan visited Big Stone Lake to call in unlicensed traders.
1750 .. Teton Sioux at about this date, having driven Omahas from Big Sioux and James river valleys, reached Missouri River and engaged Rees in forty years' war.
1775. Oglala Tetons discover Black Hills and soon afterward drive Kiowas from that region.
1780. Yankton and Yanktonais Sioux, about this date, having been driven from western Iowa by Ottos, came up and settled in James River valley.
1785. Pierre Dorion, afterward guide to Lewis and Clark, married a Yankton woman and settled in trade at mouth of James River.
1790. Pierre Garreau settled with Rees at mouth of Grand River.
1792. Sioux finally conquer Rees and drive them from their strong position in neighborhood of Pierre. The Rees retreat up river and settle with relatives at mouth of Grand River.
1796. Loisel, or L'Oiselle, builds post on Cedar Island, between Pierre and Big Bend. First recorded post in South Dakota.
1797. Trudeau builds "Pawnee House " on east side of the Mis- 1801 souri, opposite Fort Randall, in Charles Mix County.
1804. Lewis and Clark explore Missouri valley through South Dakota, en route to Pacific.
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1805. Pierre Dorion conducts party of Sioux chiefs to St. Louis.
1806. Lewis and Clark return from Pacific, passing through South Dakota.
1807. Manuel Lisa undertakes trade with Indians at head of Mis- souri. Sergeant Nathaniel Pryor attempts to conduct Big White, a Mandan chief who visited Washington with Lewis and Clark, to his home and is attacked and driven back by Rees, assisted by Minneconjou Teton Sioux under Black Buffalo. Four whites killed, nine wounded.
1808. St. Louis Missouri Fur Company organized for trade on Upper Missouri. Established post in Loisel house on Cedar Island.
1809. Manuel Lisa, for St. Louis Missouri Fur Company, safely con- ducts Big White to his home in North Dakota. Finds Rees friendly.
1810. Loisel post burned with large stock of furs.
1811. Astorian party go up Missouri to Grand River, where they buy horses of Rees and go thence up Grand River toward Pacific. First recorded exploration of northern Black Hills region.
Manuel Lisa finds Sioux excited over " Prophet craze " and believes it due to hostile English influence. Reports con- dition to General Clark, Indian agent.
1812. Red Thunder, Flathead Yanktonais chief from Elm River, Brown County, with son, Waneta, and twenty-two Sisse- tons, enlist to serve English in war against Americans.
1813. Manuel Lisa made subagent for Missouri River Sioux and keeps them friendly to American interests.
1815. Teton Sioux sign treaty of friendship at Portage des Sioux. Black Buffalo dies there July 14. Given military funeral.
1816. Pawnee House burns.
1817. Fur trade revives. Joseph La Framboise builds Fort Teton at site of Fort Pierre. First continuous settlement.
1822. La Framboise builds trading post at Great Bend of Big Sioux (Flandreau).
Fort Tecumseh built at site of Fort Pierre, by Columbia Fur Company.
Fort Recovery built upon American Island at Chamberlain, by Missouri Fur Company. (It is possible this post was
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built ten years earlier to compensate loss of Loisel post, and was headquarters of Manuel Lisa during War of 1812-1815.)
1823. General Ashley, lieutenant governor of Missouri, en route to Yellowstone, with cargo of goods and one hundred men, attacked by Rees at Grand River and thirteen men killed and ten severely wounded.
Colonel Henry Leavenworth, with 220 men, marches from Fort Atkinson, near Omaha, to punish Rees for attack on Atkinson. At Yankton, July 3, Sergeant Samuel Stack- pole and six men drowned by overturning of boat. Leavenworth is joined by Joshua Pilcher, manager of Missouri Fur Company, with forty volunteers at Fort Recovery. General Ashley and eighty men join party at Cheyenne River. Seven hundred and fifty Sioux Indians volunteer for the campaign. August 9 Ree towns reached and besieged. Rees punished and beg for terms. First general military movement in Dakota.
1825. General Henry Atkinson and Dr. Benjamin O'Fallon sent up Missouri with an escort of 476 men to make treaties for trade and intercourse with Indian tribes. Very successful. Destroy English influence with Indians. First Fourth of July celebration in Dakota.
Wamdesapa, a Wakpekuta chief, kills his brother Tasagi and is driven from his tribe. Settles on Vermilion River in South Dakota.
1828. American Fur Company absorbs Columbia Fur Company and becomes dominant in Dakota trade.
1831. Pierre Chouteau, Jr., navigates first steamboat, the Yellow- stone, on upper Missouri, reaching Fort Tecumseh. Revo- lutionizes fur trade methods.
1832. Fort Pierre built to succeed Fort Tecumseh.
George Catlin, famous painter of Indian pictures, visits Fort Pierre and paints many likenesses.
Frederick Le Beau, a trader, kills François Querrel, an em- ployee, at mouth of Cherry Creek, on Cheyenne River. Le Beau arrested by order of William Laidlaw, burgeois of Fort Pierre, and sent to St. Louis in chains.
1837. Great smallpox epidemic on Missouri River. All tribes suffer severely. Mandans practically destroyed.
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1838. Dr. Joseph N. Nicollet, accompanied by John C. Frémont, visits the coteau region of eastern South Dakota, mapping and naming the lakes.
1839. Nicollet and Frémont again visit South Dakota, coming up the river to Fort Pierre, thence passing over to James River, and finally to the Minnesota.
Father Pierre John De Smet visits the renegade band of Wakpekuta Sioux under Wamdesapa, to try to effect a peace between them and the Potawatomies of central Iowa.
1840. Dr. Stephen R. Riggs, celebrated missionary from Minnesota River, visits Fort Pierre and preaches first sermon in Dakota.
1842. Audubon, the naturalist, visited the section upon a profes- sional trip and observed and noted most of the birds and animals.
Father Alexander Ravoux visits Fort Pierre and baptizes many Indians and half bloods.
1845. Father Ravoux visits Fort Vermilion.
1847. Mrs. Joseph La Barge comes to Fort Pierre, with her husband, Captain La Barge of the steamboat Martha. First white woman to visit South Dakota. The Martha attacked by Yankton Indians at Crow Creek.
1849. Inkpaduta, son of the renegade Wamdesapa, massacres his cousin Wamundiyakapi and seventeen other Wakpekutas. 1851. Father De Smet visits the Teton Sioux.
Santee Sioux relinquish title to all land east of Big Sioux River by treaty of Traverse des Sioux.
1855. Government buys Fort Pierre. General W. S. Harney, after battle of Ash Hollow, in Nebraska, brings army of twelve hundred men to Pierre. Lieutenant G. K. Warren, after- ward famous in Civil War, examines and makes topo- graphical survey of much of South Dakota.
1857. Settlement begun at Sioux Falls, Flandreau, and Medary. " The Noble Road " built across the state from Lake Benton to Crow Creek.
Fort Randall completed and occupied.
Inkpaduta, the renegade, massacres forty-two settlers at Spirit Lake, Iowa, and retreats into South Dakota with three white women captives.
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1858. Yankton Indians make treaty relinquishing title to lands between Big Sioux and Missouri.
Mrs. Goodwin, first white woman settler, arrives at Sioux Falls.
Settlement at Medary destroyed by Smutty Bear, Yankton Sioux.
Settlers at Sioux Falls build and fortify Fort Sod.
Provisional government organized. Legislature elected and convened. Alpheus G. Fuller sent as delegate to Con- gress. Henry Masters, governor.
1859. Yankton treaty ratified. July 10 Indians surrender lands. Yankton, Vermilion, and Bon Homme founded.
Dakota Democrat newspaper established by Samuel J. Al- bright. Governor Masters dies. New legislature elected at Sioux Falls. Jefferson P. Kidder elected delegate to Congress. Wilmot W. Brookings provisional governor.
1860. First church society organized at Vermilion by Presby- terians.
First school opened at Vermilion.
First schoolhouse built at Bon Homme.
1861. Dakota Territory erected by Congress March 2. Dr. William Jayne appointed governor. Establishes temporary capital at Yankton. Calls election for legislature and delegate to Congress. John B. S. Todd elected delegate.
1862. First territorial legislature, "the Pony Congress," meets March 17.
Company A, Dakota cavalry, organized at Yankton.
Great Indian Outbreak in Minnesota, August 18. The Amidons massacred at Sioux Falls. Settlers flee in wild panic. Stockade at Yankton. All men called to arms.
1863. Governor Jayne goes to Congress. Newton Edmunds ap- pointed governor.
Company B, Dakota cavalry, organized at Elkpoint.
1865. War of Outbreak ended by treaty at Fort Pierre. Montana road ordered built.
1866. Red Cloud war begins.
Andrew J. Faulk succeeds Newton Edmunds.
Great affliction of grasshoppers. Crops eaten up.
1868. Red Cloud war ends. Great Sioux reservation created by treaty.
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1869. Faulk succeeded by John A. Burbank. "Wild and woolly period." Great factional Moody-Brookings fight begins. 1872. First railroad in South Dakota; Dakota Southern built from Sioux City to Yankton.
1873. Northwestern railway built to Lake Kampeska.
Gen. Edwin S. McCook, secretary of Dakota Territory, shot and killed by Peter P. Wintermute, result of factional political fight.
1874. Burbank succeeded by John L. Pennington.
Gold discovered in Black Hills.
Second invasion of grasshoppers.
1875. Black Hills treaty commission fails. Rush of miners to Custer.
1876. Gold discovered in Deadwood Gulch. Stampede from Custer. Miners establish law and order.
Great Sioux war. Battles of Rosebud and Little Big Horn. Custer's army destroyed.
Black Hills relinquished by Indians. All agency Sioux dis- mounted and disarmed.
1877. Great Dakota boom begins.
1878. William A. Howard succeeds Pennington.
1879. Great boom waxes strong. Railroad building begins.
1880. Northwestern railway builds to Pierre; the Milwaukee reaches Chamberlain.
Great October blizzard.
Governor Howard dies and is succeeded by Nehemiah G. Ordway.
1881. Awful floods on Big Sioux and Missouri.
Spotted Tail, noted Brule Sioux. killed by jealous warrior. Yankton College established by Dr. Joseph Ward.
1882. Capital removed from Yankton to Bismarck. State University established.
1883. Division and admission movement earnestly prosecuted to save school lands. First Sioux Falls constitutional con- vention.
Presbyterian University opened at Pierre. Removed to Huron as Huron College, 1899.
Sioux Falls College founded. Agricultural College founded at Brookings. Madison Normal School founded.
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1884. Ordway succeeded by Gilbert A. Pierce. Redfield College founded.
All Saints School for Young Ladies founded at Sioux Falls. Augustana College established at Canton.
1885. Second Sioux Falls constitutional convention. State officers and United States senators elected. Huron temporary capital.
Spearfish Normal organized.
Dakota Wesleyan University established at Mitchell.
1887. Pierce succeeded by Louis K. Church. School of Mines founded at Rapid City.
1889. Enabling act of Congress provides for division and admis- sion of South Dakota and North Dakota.
Arthur C. Mellette succeeds Church.
Third Sioux Falls constitutional convention.
Division and admission at last. November 2.
Lutheran Normal School founded at Sioux Falls.
1890. Opening of portion of Great Sioux reservation between White and Cheyenne rivers.
Messiah war .. Sitting Bull killed. Battle of Wounded Knee. Second year of alarming drouth. Many settlers destitute.
1891. Good conditions restored.
1895. Walter W. Taylor, state treasurer. defaults for $367.000, and absconds. Returned and is convicted.
Period of great depression and hard times.
Springfield Normal organized. .
1896. The tide turns. Beginning of long period of prosperity.
1898. Spanish War. First South Dakota Infantry sent to Philip- pines. Distinguished service there.
1899. First South Dakota Infantry returns from Philippines crowned with glory. President Mckinley welcomes the regiment home.
1901. Northern Normal and Industrial School opened at Aberdeen. 1904. Opening of portion of Rosebud land brings unprecedented rush of homesteaders. One hundred and six thousand persons apply for right to enter lands.
Mitchell contests with Pierre for state capital. Pierre for third time successful.
STATE CENSUS OF 1905
Summary of facts revealed by the Second State Census of South Dakota, 1905 : -
Total population
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Number of males, white ·
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Number of females, white
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Total foreign born . . . . . . 89,534
Percentage of foreign born, 19.7.
Total born in South Dakota
, 175,122
Total born in South Dakota having native parents .
· 79,845
Total born in South Dakota having foreign parents . · 95,277
Total born in other states .
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167,251
Total born in other states having native parents .
, 104.248
Total born in other states having foreign parents
. 53.003
Total having native parents .
184.093
Total having foreign parents
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Total of school age . ·
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Total of military age .
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Total voters .
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Total literate ro years and over .
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Total illiterate 10 years and over
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Percentage of illiteracy, 1.2.
Total males over 10 engaged in useful employment . . 174,232 Total females over 10 engaged in useful employment . 136,947
Total males unemployed . 6,21 3
Total females unemployed .
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INDEX
Aborigines, 17. Aird, James, 47. Albright, Samuel J., II0, 200. Allison, W. B., 143. Amidon, J. B., killed, 124. Animals, prehistoric, IO.
Armadale Grove, 91. Armstrong, Moses K., 123. Ash Hollow, battle, 97. Ashley, Gen. W. H., 79. Ashton, 105. Astor, John J., 53.
Astoria expedition, 53. Atkinson, Gen. Henry, 85
Bad Lands, 9, 12, 13. Beadle, W. H. H., 167. Benteen, Major, 146. Big Elk, 76. Bigelow, " Gov.," 118.
Big White, Mandan chief, 48. Black Buffalo, 38, 47, 56, 75, 183. Black Hills treaties, 143, 148. Black Moon, 145.
Boat race, 55. Boom days, 156. Brackenridge, scientist, 58. Bradley, John, 58. British trade, 85. Brookings, W. W., III, 200. Brown, M. C., poet, 163. Brown, Samuel J., 131, 132. Burbank, John A., 203, 205.
California trail, 95. Campbell, Hugh J., 169. Capital location, 120, 169, 195. Catlin, George, 70, 90. Charger, Martin, 127. Chouteau, Pierre, Sr., 49, 53. Chouteau, Pierre, Jr., 89. Church, Gov., 204, 207. Clark, Capt. William, 30, 33. Constitutions, 169. Crazy Band, 127. Crazy Horse, 145. Custer, G. A., 142, 146.
Dakota cavalry, 125, 130, 134. Daley, Rev. C. M., 188. Deadwood gulch, 152. De Smet, 92. De Witt, Franklin, 108. Dickson, Robert, 67. Dorion, Pierre, 26, 38, 49, 50, 54.
Edgerton, Alonso J., 169, 21I. Edmunds, Newton, 201, 202. Elrod, Samuel H., 208, 209
Faulk, Andrew J., 202, 203.
First bloodshed, 51.
First regiment, 187.
First rhyme, 99. Flandrau, Charles E., 104.
Floods, 165.
Floyd, Sergt. Charles, 32.
Fourth of July Celebration, 86.
Frémont, John C., 90.
French claims, 25, 27.
Frost, Alfred B., 187.
Gall, 145. Galpin, Charles E., 126.
Gamble, Robert J., 212.
Gardner, Abbie (Sharp), 103.
Garreau, Pierre, 26, 45.
Geology, 9. Gifford, Oscar S., 169.
Gold discovered in Black Hills, 143, 150. Goodwin, Mrs., IIO. Grasshoppers, 142. Gray Eyes, Ree chief, 59. Greyfoot, 103. Grigsby's Cowboys, 193.
Harney, W. S., 86, 96.
Herreid, Gov., 208, 209.
Holman, John, 190. Holmes, Charles E., 13. Howard, William A., 107, 204, 205.
Hughitt, Marvin, 156. Hump, 183. Hunt, Walter P., 53.
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Inkpaduta, 102, 106, 145.
Jayne, William, 117, 201, 202.
Kidder, Jefferson P., III. Kiowas, 18. Kittredge, Alfred B., 213. Kyle, James H., 212.
La Barge, Joseph, 100. La Framboise, Joseph, 78, 88.
Laidlaw, William, 199. Lake Thompson, battle, 106. La Plant, Louis, 129. Leavenworth, Col. Henry, 81.
Lee, Andrew E., 208, 200. Lefthand, Ree ehiet, 59.
Le Sueur, Charles Pierre, 22, 23.
Lewis and Clark, 15, 30. 32, 34, 36, 48, 53, 113, 183. Lien, Jonas, 188. Lisa, Manuel, 49, 50, 53, 72. Little Big Horn, battle, 146.
Little Cherry, 25. Little Crow, 105, 106.
Loisel Post, 26, 36. Louisiana Purchase, 28.
Mckay, William, 140. Massacre by Rees, 80. Massacre, Fetterman, 138.
Masters, Henry, 109, 200. Maximilian, 90. Medieine Rock, 87. Mellette, Arthur C., 169, 206, 207
Messiah war, 173. Miner, Capt. Nelson, 125.
Moody, Gideon C., 169, 21I. Mounds, 14-16.
Newspapers established, 110, 119. Nicollet, Joseph N., 90.
O'Fallon, Dr. Benjamin, 81. Other Day, John, 104.
Pearson, John B., 152. Pennington, John L., 204, 205 Pettigrew, R. F., 211. Philippine war, 188. Pierce, G. A., 204, 207. Pilcher, Joshua, 81. Pinney, George M., 120.
Primeau, Charles E., 129. Pryor, Sergeant, 49
Railway extensions, 157.
Red Cloud war, 135. Ree Indians, 17, 45, 49, 61, 82.
Reno, Major, 146. Riggs, Dr. S. R., 92, 104
Sacajawea, 46.
Sauguin, Dr., 37, 52.
Shannon, George, 51, 35.
Sheafe, Mark W., 193.
Sheldon, Charles H., 208, 209.
Shetak captives, 126.
Shober, John H., 120. Short Bull, 176. Sitting Bull, 100, 145, 18I.
Smith, Jedediah S., 83.
Smutty Bear, 109, 113.
Snow blockades, 160.
Somers, James, 120.
Spanish war, 187.
Spirit Lake massacre, 102.
Stackpole, Samuel, 81.
Statehood, 167.
Stover, Col. Lee, 187.
Struck by the Ree, 34, 113, 125.
Taylor, William W., 210.
Todd, J. B. S., 119, 202.
Tripp, Bartlett, 169. Trudeau's Post, 26.
Valle, John, 45. Van Houten, Clayton C., 191.
Vérendrye, 25. Vermilion, 117, 165.
Wamdesapa, 92, 102. Waneta, 68, 69, 87. War of 1812, 67.
War of the Outbreak, 124.
Ward, Dr. Joseph, 167.
Warne, Dr. R. C., 188.
Warren, Gen. G. K., 94
White Lodge, 126.
Wounded Knee, battle, 185.
Yankton stockade, 125. Yankton treaty, 113.
Ziebach. Frank M., 125.
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