Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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 Wyoming Organic Act of 1868 An enlargeable map of the United States after South Dakota statehood in 1889 An ...
South Dakota State Historical Society founded May 7, 1862. 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. Crow Creek Reservation established. The Homestead Act of 1862 provides ownership of South Dakota land to people who farm it for ...
Howe, Jenika. "Power in the pasture: Energy and the history of ranching in western South Dakota" (Diss. Colorado State University, 2012) online; Karolevitz, Robert F. Challenge: The South Dakota Story (Brevet Press, 1975) Kumlien, Wendell Frichiof, and Howard M. Sauer. "Population Migration To and from South Dakota: 1930–1940." (1940) online.
August 17 – Jonathan Trumbull, Governor of the Colony and the state of Connecticut (born 1710) November 28 – William Whipple, signatory of the United States Declaration of Independence, representative of New Hampshire (born 1730)
According to the South Dakota State Historical Society's Archaeological Research Center, over 26,000 archaeological sites have been recorded in the U.S. state of South Dakota. [1] This list is broken down by county and encompasses sites across all of what is now South Dakota. Only notable sites are listed.
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us; Pages for logged out editors learn more
Source (popular vote): A New Nation Votes: American Election Returns 1787–1825 [12] (a) Only 6 of the 10 states casting electoral votes chose electors by any form of the popular vote. (b) Less than 1.8% of the population voted: the 1790 census would count a total population of 3.0 million with a free population of 2.4 million and 600,000 ...
Prospectors found gold in 1874 near present-day Custer, South Dakota, but the deposit turned out to be small. The large placer gold deposits of Deadwood Gulch were discovered in November 1875, and in 1876, thousands of gold-seekers flocked to the new town of Deadwood , although it was still within Native American land.