Article: 1874; The Dakota Territory, later to become North ...
The Washington Post;  March 27, 2001 ;     359 words ...You live on a flat, treeless piece of prairie, by a river. You came here from Wisconsin in a covered wagon. Your house is made of sod: big grassy chunks of soil stacked up like building blocks. Your family paid $18 to the government for the land. If your parents farm it for five years, it will

Article: COUGARS EXPANDING SOUTH DAKOTA TERRITORY
United Press International;  August 2, 2004 ;     332 words ... ... 02-2004 Cougars expanding South Dakota territory RAPID CITY, S.D., Aug 02 ... living in the Black Hills of South Dakota have reached a critical population ... encounters with humans. The South Dakota Department of Game, Fish and ...

Article: Indexing the South Dakota constitutional ...
South Dakota Law Review;  June 22, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... easy for South Dakota. Prior to ... those in Dakota Territory supporting ... relevant to the South Dakota legal profession ... History of Dakota Territory, (5) a ... History of Dakota Territory, Volume II, and South Dakota Historical ...

Transcript: South Dakota Execution Would Be First in 60 ...
NPR All Things Considered;  July 11, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... Attorney General LARRY LONG (South Dakota): I believe that there are ... executions have taken place in South Dakota or Dakota Territory. The first death sentence ... researching the death penalty for South Dakota's State Historical Society ...

Article: Draper, Arthur Gibbs, ed. My Ever Dear Charlie: Letters Home from ...
Kliatt;  March 1, 2006 ;     669 words ... ... ever dear Charlie; letters home from the Dakota territory. Globe Pequot Press. 234p. illus ... the barren plains of what was then the Dakota Territory and is now north central South Dakota. While her husband Charles had come with ...

Article: How the West Was Fun; In South Dakota, Buffalo ...
The Washington Post;  June 4, 1989 ;     700+ words ... ... us, and we figured that South Dakota, smack in the middle of ... things are hopping in South Dakota this summer. The Dakota Territory became a state 100 years ... commune with the buffalo. But South Dakota is also great for people ...

Article: South Dakota
Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History;      700+ words ... ... become the capital of South Dakota. Slowly over the ... designated it as the Dakota Territory. The region included ... now North Dakota and South Dakota and most of the land ... networks opened up the Dakota Territory for additional markets ...