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  Dakota Territory dot BIZ Territory Lifestyle and People
Dakota Territory was the name of the northernmost part of the
Most of Dakota Territory was formerly part of Minnesota Territory.
Wyoming; the territory was reduced in 1863 to the present
www.dakotaterritory.biz /territory_life.htm   (657 words)

  
  Dakota Territory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dakota Territory was the name of the northernmost part of the Louisiana Purchase of the United States.
At times, the territory of Dakota Territory included parts of present-day Montana and Wyoming; the territory was reduced in 1863 to the present boundaries of the Dakotas.
The territorial capital was Yankton from 1861 until 1883, when it was moved to Bismarck.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dakota_Territory   (284 words)

  
 Dakota - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Dakota Territory of the United States of America, which existed from 1858 until 1889.
In 1858 the eastern half of the territory of Minnesota became the present state of Minnesota.
Dakota MRT station, one of the stations on the Circle Line MRT currently under construction in Singapore.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dakota   (298 words)

  
 Dakota Territory   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
It became a historic, organized territory on March 2, 1861, and divided into the states of North Dakota and South Dakota on November 2, 1889.
The admission of the two Dakotas, rather than one, was for a number of reasons.
Firstly, the North and South of the territory had significant differences, not the least of which was the unabashed political corruption that had moved the territorial capitol from Yankton to Bismarck.
www.1-free-software.com /en/wikipedia/d/da/dakota_territory.html   (200 words)

  
 Chronology of North Dakota History
Military occupation of North Dakota began with the establishment of Fort Abercrombie on the Red River and the present-day town of Abercrombie; the fort was abandoned in 1877.
Dakota Territory was officially organized by the Federal government and William Jayne was appointed the first governor by President Abraham Lincoln.
North Dakota's wheat crop was the largest to that date and the Legislature passed laws outlawing the death penalty except in cases where prison guards are murdered.
www.state.nd.us /hist/chrono.htm   (6123 words)

  
 North Dakota Governors - part 1
After serving as territorial governor, Faulk was appointed clerk of District Court of Dakota Territory.
Severe infestations of grasshoppers ruined crops in Dakota Territory during the summers of 1874, 1875, and 1876.
The territorial capitol was moved from Yankton to Bismarck during Ordway's terms of office.
www.state.nd.us /hist/tgov.htm   (1440 words)

  
 Union County Historical Society-Dakota Territory History
Dakota Territory, created in 1861, included territory that is now found in five states-portions of Idaho, Wyoming, Montana and all of the two Dakotas.
The land area of both North and South Dakota remained in Dakota Territory until the division was accomplished simultaneously with the admission of these states in 1889.
The early period of territorial life was characterized by all that goes to make up pioneer conditions--a primitive status of society, sparse settlement, absence of railroads, Indian hostilities, uncertain crop conditions and the unsettled conditions of political affairs.
www.acsnet.com /~jkjar/dt_history.htm   (1951 words)

  
 Dakota Territory Cruisers - Statement of Position   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
The Dakota Territory Cruisers supports the policy of limiting wheeled off-highway vehicles (OHV) use to existing roads and trails, in areas where cross country use of OHV has been adequately studied and shown to cause adverse impacts.
The Dakota Territory Cruisers recognizes that limiting snowmobiles to groomed routes may be appropriate in unique areas such as Yellowstone NP, and in other areas as determined by land managers using a thorough analysis and public involvement process.
The Dakota Territory Cruisers requests that state fish and wildlife agencies actively work with land management agencies to ensure that OHV travel management requirements are included in hunter education programs, hunter booklets and on unit maps to ensure that hunters are aware of any vehicle restrictions.
www.dakotacruisers.com /position.htm   (1517 words)

  
 Antique Maps and Prints of the Historic Territory of Dakota.
The Missouri river crosses Dakota from the northwest to the southeast corner, and is navigable throughout the Territory.
The Dakota rises in Devil's Lake, in the northeast, and has a length of 400 miles to its junction with the Missouri near Yankton.
In view of the enormous area of the Territory and the rapidity of its growth, several propositions have been made for its division, but as yet nothing definite for the accomplishment of such a purpose has been undertaken.
www.antiquemapsandprints.com /usa-dakota.htm   (1047 words)

  
 History of Masonry in Dakota Territory
Masonry in Dakota Territory began with the Louisiana Purchase and was greatly perpetuated by the military.
Dakota Territory became North and South Dakota when they were admitted to the Union on November 2, 1889.
Frontier Army Lodge of Masonic Research #1875 is uniquely chartered by Grand Lodges of North and South Dakota, the Dakota Territorial Grand Lodge formed in 1875 and divided with the territory at large at statehood in 1889.
www.freemason.org /cfo/winter_2002/dakotaMasons.htm   (1206 words)

  
 Links to Dakota Territory
Explore Dakota Territory through the eyes of two-gun Bill Janklow...
Dakota's only National Historic Landmark open to the public.
These girls design, sew and sell adaptive clothing for the special needs of the physically challenged person.
www.dakotamainstreet.com /links.html   (389 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: North Dakota
In 1849 all that part of Dakota east of the Missouri and White Earth Rivers was made part of the Territory of Minnesota, and in 1854 all to the west of the said rivers was included in the Territory of Nebraska.
North Dakota is bounded on the north by Saskatchewan and Manitoba, on the south by South Dakota, on the east by Minnesota (the Red River dividing), and on the west by Montana.
The artesian basin is in North Dakota sandstone at the base of the upper cretacean, at a depth of from eight hundred feet in the south-east to fifteen hundred feet at Devil's Lake.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/11111b.htm   (3436 words)

  
 Obtaining Land in Dakota Territory
North Dakota and South Dakota are among the 30 states that were formed from the "public domain." Below is a summary of the key methods used to obtain land from the government in Dakota Territory.
This became a demand of the Free-Soil party, which saw such distribution as a means of stopping the spread of slavery into the territories, and it was subsequently adopted by the Republican party in its 1860 platform.
Potential settlers did not believe that the land of Dakota Territory was suitable for farming.
www.fargo-history.com /early/land.htm   (1561 words)

  
 Plains Folk: Dakota Territory
We proposed a reprint of Dakota Territory, and he was pleased to give his assent.
In fact, it is fair to say that in the early days of the territory, the federal government was the most important and dependable source of wealth.
It would be pleasant to report that the sturdy German-Russian and Norwegian farmers of the territory, and the straight-shooting ranchers, and the upstanding business people eventually asserted democratic values and overthrew the machine, but that's not what happened.
www.ext.nodak.edu /extnews/newsrelease/1998/061198/12plains.htm   (650 words)

  
 Helm's Genealogy Toolbox - South Dakota   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
The population given for 1860 is for the whole of Dakota Territory as organized in 1861, essentially comprising present-day South and North Dakota east of the Missouri River; no determination has been made to assign the 1860 total to what became the two separate States.
The total population of Dakota Territory was 14,181 in 1870 and 135,177 in 1880.
Schnasse County South Dakota Genealogy Schnasse County was abolished in 19xx(date presently unknown), and was succeeded by Perkins, Corson, and Zieb...
www.genealogytoolbox.com /GI_cat_places.cfm?FIPS=4600000000&TID=49DB33...   (812 words)

  
 Dakota Territory Air Museum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
The Dakota Territory Air Museum was founded in June of 1986 with the incorporator’s dream and desire to provide the most comprehensive aviation facility in the state.
The Dakota Territory Air Museum has already forged a place where the aviation history of our region can be shown.
The members of the Dakota Territory Air Museum feel that now is the time to save and remember what came before, while at the same time pointing to the skies and what is to come.
web.ci.minot.nd.us /airport/dtam.htm   (268 words)

  
 Dakota Genealogy Research - North Dakota Genealogy - South Dakota Genealogy - Time Passages, Genealogy of the Dakotas
The Dakota Territory was one of only five states and territories that elected to take the1885 Special Census with half the cost of the census reimbursed by the federal government.
Census records exist for 47 of the 56 North Dakota counties.
Researchers trying to find their South Dakota ancestors will experience the least likelihood of actually locating them in this census.
www.time-passages.com /1885-census.html   (217 words)

  
 The Political Graveyard: Lawyer Politicians in North Dakota
justice of Dakota territorial supreme court, 1889; district judge in South Dakota, 1889-94.
U.S. Representative from South Dakota, 1901-07, 1908, 1909-15 (at-large 1901-07, 1908, 1909-13, 3rd District 1913-15).
Delegate to U.S. Congress from Dakota Territory, 1881-83; defeated, 1882; U.S. Senator from South Dakota, 1889-1901.
politicalgraveyard.com /geo/ND/lawyer.html   (1338 words)

  
 4x4Wire - 2002 Dakota Territory Challenge
The 2002 Dakota Territory Challenge occurred as normal on Labor Day weekend, despite a very dry Summer and fires that has threatened to shut down the event as late as the first weeks of August.
Some trails such as Bikini and T-Back were not accessible due to the Rockerville fire, and the section of 385 between the Fish N Fry Campground and Deadwood was closed because of a mud slide that had occurred during Bike Week.
I believe the toll for the day was one torn side wall, one or two front axle shafts, one CJ steering box bracket that nearly came off the frame and one or two broken spherical rod ends on someone's tie rod.
www.4x4wire.com /trail/report/sd/dtc02   (1157 words)

  
 NARA - Publications - Special List 29: North Dakota
Sketch of the Public Surveys in Dakota Territory [to] accompany annual report of Sur.
Post Route Map of the Territory of Dakota with adjacent parts of Montana, Wyoming, Nebraska, Iowa, and Minnesota and portions of the Dominion of Canada showing post offices with the intermediate distances and mail routes in operation on the 1st of October, 1885.
Post Route Map of the State of North Dakota showing post offices with the intermediate distances on mail routes in operation on the 1st of January, 1917.
www.archives.gov /publications/finding-aids/maps/nd.html   (1322 words)

  
 Dakota Territory Air Museum - Minot, ND
The Dakota Territory Air Museum was founded in June of 1986 with the incorporators' dream and desire to provide the most comprehensive aviation facility in the state and region.
Plans were laid early that the museum would not only be a place to display famous military and vintage aircraft, but would be a place in every way dedicated to telling and showing the rich and varied story of our region's aviation history.
The Dakota Territory Air Museum has already forged a place where the aviation country and imaginations probe the depths of travel into space; we realize the speed with which changes are coming in aviation.
www.dakotaterritoryairmuseum.com   (394 words)

  
 Dakota Territory   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Dakota Territory is a small company known for twenty four years for elegant and unusual gifts and products.
Named in honor of my Grandfather, John Daley, a pioneer homesteader in 'Dakota Territory' in the 1870's.
Dakota Territory is a proud sponsor of the Sun Valley Film Festival and its Scholarship Programs.
home.comcast.net /~petitclerc/dakota   (139 words)

  
 Dakota Territory Cruisers - Home of the Black Hills Cruiser Classic
Dakota Territory Cruisers - Home of the Black Hills Cruiser Classic
All rights belong to the Dakota Territory Cruisers, Inc.
Permission is granted to download images from the Gallery for your personal non-commercial use
www.dakotacruisers.com   (65 words)

  
 INDIAN AFFAIRS: LAWS AND TREATIES. Vol. 1, Laws
It is hereby ordered that townships numbered 119, 120, and 121 north, of range 63 west, in the Territory of Dakota, be, and the same are hereby, set apart as a reservation for the use of &$147;Mag-a-bo-das” or “Drifting Goose” band of Yanktonais Sioux Indians.
119, 120, and 121 north, of range 63 west, in the Territory of Dakoto, set apart by Executive order, dated June 27, 1879, for the use of “Mag-a-bo-das” or “Drifting Goose” band of Yanktonais Sioux Indians, be, and the same are hereby, restored to the public domain.
This reservation is selected with the approbation of the governor of the Territory and the Delegate in Congress, as also the surveyor-general of the said Territory.
digital.library.okstate.edu /kappler/Vol1/HTML_files/DAK0895.html   (621 words)

  
 NDSU Libraries, North Dakota Census Index
The database includes only the counties in northern Dakota Territory (present-day North Dakota).
You can also limit your search by adding, if known, the country or state of birth, or the Dakota Territory county of residence.
Remember, if a person was born in what is now North or South Dakota, the entry will read "Dakota" only.
www.lib.ndsu.nodak.edu /ndirs/databases/census.php   (329 words)

  
 Dakota Territory
Colonel Bruster, commandant of Fort McPherson in Dakota Territory, calls his old friend, Tap Duncan--sometimes lawman, sometimes Army scout--into this mix.
Bruster hopes Tap might be able to stop the gunrunning and remove one element of heat from the powder keg he feels the territory sits upon.
Tap arrives at McPherson but finds his job complicated by Buffalo Lance, a Sioux who feels he has good reason to kill Tap, Bruster's daughter, Matty, a love from earlier times, her suitor, Captain Hawthorne, who likes Tap about as much as Buffalo Lance does, and the gunrunners themselves.
www.authorhouse.com /BookStore/ItemDetail~PagePK~ca31dc34-28a5-46b8-9312-db9cf8178e3f~bookid~3043.aspx   (635 words)

  
 SDGENWEB - Maps of South Dakota
Northern portion of Dakota Territory from an 1888 Hunt and Eaton map.
Southern portion of Dakota Territory from an 1888 Hunt and Eaton map.
South Dakota Counties in 1895 - smaller county maps taken from the large 1895 map above.
www.rootsweb.com /~sdgenweb/maps/maps.html   (468 words)

  
 Dakota Territory with Ryan, November, 2002
Ryan Simonson and I drove from Minneapolis to South Dakota to visit my mom and her parents.
South Dakota has a serious problem with animal rights; there are countless signs AGAINST animal activists in the state.
Here's Ryan at that kids' fun park with the Wizard of Oz shit; they had a pirate ship and he fit right in behind the cap'n, taking him from behind as usual.
www.pjchmiel.com /feat/dakota02   (573 words)

  
 Dakota Territorial Museum Yankton, South Dakota on the Lewis and Clark Trail
Dakota Territorial Museum Yankton, South Dakota on the Lewis and Clark Trail
1861 Dakota Territory created (land between the west line of Minnesota and the crest of the Rockies)
1872 Dakota Southern locomotive, "Judge Brookings", was the first to cross into Dakota Territory (October 1, 1872)
lewisandclarktrail.com /section2/sdcities/Yankton/DakotaMuseum   (164 words)

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