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  2. Fort Abraham Lincoln - Wikipedia

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    Custer and his wife at Fort Abraham Lincoln, Dakota Territory, April 6, 1874. Reportedly at right in gunrack is a Webley RIC used by Custer [15] Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer and his wife, Libbie, lived at Fort Abraham Lincoln from 1873 until Custer died at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in the summer of 1876. Approximately 500 ...

  3. Dakota Territory - Wikipedia

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    The Territory of Dakota was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from March 2, 1861, [1] until November 2, 1889, when the final extent of the reduced territory was split and admitted to the Union as the states of North and South Dakota.

  4. Black Hills Expedition - Wikipedia

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    The Black Hills Expedition was a United States Army expedition in 1874 led by Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer that set out on July 2, 1874, from Fort Abraham Lincoln, Dakota Territory, which is south of modern day Mandan, North Dakota, with orders to travel to the previously uncharted Black Hills of South Dakota.

  5. Early Indian treaty territories in North Dakota - Wikipedia

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    These three ranges together show the mutual Indian territory of the Arikara, Hidatsa and Mandan as defined in the Treaty of Fort Laramie (1851). [2]: 594–596 It extended into Montana and Wyoming. Area 529 turned into U.S. territory on April 12, 1870, by executive order. The Fort Berthold Reservation was established at the same occasion ...

  6. Outline of North Dakota territorial evolution - Wikipedia

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    An enlargeable map of the United States after the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 An enlargeable map of the United States after the Anglo-American Convention of 1818 An enlargeable map of the United States after the Dakota Organic Act of 1861 An enlargeable map of the United States after the Montana Organic Act of 1864 An enlargeable map of the United States after North Dakota statehood in 1889 An ...

  7. Far West (steamship) - Wikipedia

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    The military column led by General Terry and Custer's 7th Cavalry traveled westward over the prairies from Fort Lincoln, Dakota Territory to the Yellowstone River. The Far West , captained by Grant Marsh, brought supplies up the Missouri and Yellowstone river and met the military column at the mouth of Powder River in Montana Territory, near ...

  8. PHOTOS: Life in Weatherford, Texas, from 1870s to 1950s, from ...

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    Check out what life was like in North Texas town of Weatherford, the Parker County seat since the mid-1800s. ... 1939 opening of West Lancaster bridge in Fort Worth. Keller, Texas, during the ...

  9. Bonanza farms - Wikipedia

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    Most bonanza farms were owned by companies and run like factories, with professional managers. The first bonanza farms were established in the mid-1870s in the Red River Valley in Minnesota and in Dakota Territory, such as the Grandin Farm. Developers bought land close to the Northern Pacific Railroad, for ease of transport of their wheat to ...