This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 edition. Excerpt: ...was plenty of timber along the rivers, they built their first homes of hewn logs. Some of the houses whose foundations were laid on that tenth day of July, 1859, are stm standing. Some breaking was done, but it was too late in the season to grow any crops that year. The town sites at Bon Homme, Yankton, and ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 edition. Excerpt: ...was plenty of timber along the rivers, they built their first homes of hewn logs. Some of the houses whose foundations were laid on that tenth day of July, 1859, are stm standing. Some breaking was done, but it was too late in the season to grow any crops that year. The town sites at Bon Homme, Yankton, and Vermilion were entered upon by adventurous men with large dreams of town building, but in the fertile bottom lands between the James and Vermilion rivers many farmers settled, who had no more ambitious plans than to build for themselves and their families permanent farm homes, and most of them with their children still occupy the homesteads they took upon that day, or sleep peacefully in the little churchyards near by. In The Valley Of The James So it was that a settlement in opposition to that upon the Sioux River was planted in the Missouri valley, so different in every way that there were scarcely any lines of likeness between them. The one was moved by dreams of power and wealth, without labor, the other sought only homes where a livelihood might be secured by honest toil. It is hardly necessary to say that while the former sadly failed, the latter, overcoming every obstacle, became the permanent and prosperous motherland of the future state. CHAPTER XX THE NEW TERRITORY IS BORN On the second day of March, 1861, Dakota territory was born. It included the area now occupied by North Dakota and South Dakota, and extended westward to the Rocky Mountains. One of the last official acts of James Buchanan, President of the United States, was to sign the bill creating it a free territory. And among the first acts of Abraham Lincoln as President, was to appoint his old neighbor and family physician, Dr. William Jayne, of Springfield, Illinois, first...
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1905
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