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  Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : South Dakota   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
South Dakota was admitted to the Union on November 2, 1889.
South Dakota is bordered to the north by North Dakota, to the south by Nebraska, to the east by Iowa and Minnesota, and to the west by Wyoming and Montana.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, as of 2004, South Dakota's population was 770,883.
www.hallencyclopedia.com /South_Dakota   (1415 words)

  
 Missouri River - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The headwaters of the Missouri are in the Rocky Mountains of southwestern Montana, near the continental divide.
During the 18th century, the river was used by fur traders under the flags of Spain and France.
The entire Missouri River watershed was acquired from the French by the United States in 1803 as part of the Louisiana Purchase and explored by the Lewis and Clark Expedition, which successfully used the river in exploring for a route to the Pacific Ocean.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Missouri_River   (1120 words)

  
 Grand River (South Dakota) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Grand River is a tributary of the Missouri River in North Dakota and South Dakota in the United States.
It is formed by the confluence of the North Fork (which rises in North Dakota) and the longer South Fork (which rises in South Dakota) in northwestern South Dakota near Shadehill in Perkins County, near several parcels of the Grand River National Grassland.
The forks of the Grand was the site of the famous 1823 attack by a grizzly bear on frontiersman Hugh Glass.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Grand_River_(South_Dakota)   (208 words)

  
 south dakota   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
South Dakota, with an area of 199,745 sq km (77,122 sq mi), is the 17th largest state in the U.S.; 5.5% of the land area is owned by the federal government.
The E third of South Dakota lies within the Central Lowland region of the midwestern U.S. It is an area of rolling glacial plains, with numerous lakes and ponds.
When South Dakota was originally settled, most of the region was covered by grass, with tall bluestem prairies found in the humid E, and short-grass steppes, dominated by grama and needlegrass, found in the dry W. Today, forest covers only approximately 3% of the state's land area.
www.equineestates.com /library/United_States/south_dakota.htm   (2977 words)

  
 Vermillion South Dakota Newspaper -- Recommendations and Resources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Home to the University of South Dakota, Vermillion has a mixed academic and rural character: The University is the flagship academic institution in the state, boasting a law school, business school, and several well-regarded academic departments, such as the Department of Social Behavior.
It rises in the Badlands of northwestern South Dakota, south of the Cave Hills in western Harding County, and flows east past Buffalo, then past several units of the Grand River National Grassland in northern Perkins County.
South Dakota is a state in the high plains of the northern Middle West.
www.becomingapediatrician.com /health/157/vermillion-south-dakota-newspaper.html   (1147 words)

  
 Dakota Prairie Grasslands - Grand River Ranger District
The Grand River National Grassland is characterized by rolling hills, river breaks, and some badland type areas, dominated by mixed grass prairie.
The north and south forks of the Grand River dissect the land unit, drain into Shadehill Reservoir and then flow easterly to the Missouri River.
Dispersed recreation is encouraged on the Grand River National Grassland, and opportunities for camping, photography, and viewing of native vegetation and wildlife are abundant.
www.fs.fed.us /r1/dakotaprairie/grandriver.htm   (419 words)

  
 North Dakota Fast Facts and Trivia
The Canadian provinces of Saskatchewan and Manitoba on the north, Minnesota on the east, South Dakota to the south, and Montana as its western neighbor border North Dakota.
North Dakota is 212 miles long north to south and 360 miles wide east to west.
The piles of rock on White Butte, North Dakota's highest point, are known of as rock johnnies or sheepherder's monuments and according to legend were piled there by sheepherders as a way to pass the time while they tended their flocks.
www.50states.com /facts/ndakota.htm   (1640 words)

  
 Red Lake River Canoe and Small Boat Route
The river trail is broken into seven segment maps: (1) Lower Red Lake To High Landing, (2) High Landing to Thief River Falls, (3) Thief River Falls to Red Lake Falls, (4) Red Lake Falls to Huot, (5) Huot to Crookston, (6) Crookston to Fisher, and (7) Fisher to East Grand Forks.
The river drains a watershed of nearly 6000 square miles and is the largest tributary and sub basin of the Red River of the North in the United States.
Continuing westward the river passes through more farms, scattered riparian areas, and shoreline woods of elm, willow, and oak for over 20 miles; recently great blue herons, Franklin's gulls, and bald eagles were seen along this stretch.
www.redlakerivercorridor.org /CanoeMaps.htm   (629 words)

  
 Grand River   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Rivers in Louisiana, Michigan, Iowa, Missouri, South Dakota; formerly the name of the Colorado River from its source to its junction with the Green River in southeastern Utah.
Grand River (LSMR-505) was laid down as LSMR-505 on 31 March 1945 by Brown Shipbuilding Co., Inc., Houston, Tex.; launched 28 April 1945 ; and commissioned 14 June 1945, Lt. Hall B. Wessinger in command.
While berthed in the Columbia River Reserve Group, she was named Grand River 1 October 1955.
www.history.navy.mil /danfs/g7/grand_river.htm   (189 words)

  
 Sandhill River Golf Course
The Sandhill River Golf Course is a unique par 36 course set on the banks of the Sandhill River near Fertile, MN.
The Sandhill River Golf Course is located on the south edge of Fertile, Minnesota along State Highway 32.
The course is approximately 45 miles southeast of Grand Forks, North Dakota and 70 miles northeast of Fargo-Moorhead.
sandhillrivergolf.com   (271 words)

  
 National Park Service - Soldier and Brave (Survey of Historic Sites and Buildings)
Among the earliest of numerous Missouri River posts and the first on the river in North Dakota, this fort was founded in the summer of 1864 as a stockaded supply base by Brig.
Subsequently the primary mission of the fort was protection of river navigation, though in July 1868 it was the scene of the signing by some of the upper Missouri chiefs or their emissaries of the Fort Laramie Treaty (1868).
Adjoining it on the south was the Cheyenne River Reservation, S. Dak. Established in 1868 and guarded by Fort Bennett (1870-91), the latter stretched west of the Missouri River as far south as the Cheyenne River.
www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/soldier/sitec12.htm   (2900 words)

  
 South Dakota Disability Hunting and Fishing Information
South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks has purchased various land tracts called Game Production Areas (GPA’s) across the state that are open to public access for hunting or wildlife viewing.
This area is adjacent to the Missouri River (Lake Francis Case) 1 mile west, 1 mile south, 2 1/2 miles west, and 3 miles south of Oacoma.
The South Dakota Dept. of Game, Fish and Parks also has various fishing areas that have structures or piers that allow access for disabled individuals.
www.sdgfp.info /Wildlife/Disability/DisabilityIndex.htm   (1124 words)

  
 Wilderness:  South Dakota's Unfulfilled Promise
South Dakota has yet to have a single acre of this National Grassland and Custer National Forest prairie heritage protected as Wilderness.
South Dakota citizens are proposing Wilderness designations for wild places within the Buffalo Gap, Grand River, and Fort Pierre National Grasslands, plus the Cave Hills and Slim Buttes areas of the Custer National Forest and tracts of land managed by the BLM in the far northwest corner of the State.
South Dakotans are now recommending these two (Red Shirt and an enlarged Indian Creek) plus another 11 additional wilderness areas for Congressional designation.
www.wilderness.org /wherewework/southdakota/wilderness.cfm   (1086 words)

  
 South Dakota coyote hunting information
To hunt coyotes (or fox, skunk) in South Dakota, residents are required to possess a resident predator/varmint license, or any other valid South Dakota resident hunting license.
Although coyotes can be found and hunted throughout the state, the western half of South Dakota is where most of the hunting occurs.
Although there are some large tracts of public land open to hunting in the western half of the state, private land, especially that located along the western river drainages, such as the White, Bad, Cheyenne, Moreau and Grand rivers, offers the best hunting.
www.sdgfp.info /wildlife/hunting/coyote.htm   (414 words)

  
 Jon K. Lauck on South Dakota & Election 2002 on National Review Online
South Dakota Dems don’t acknowledge the importance of their voter-fraud problem.
The more registration cards and absentee-ballot requests one fills out, the greater the size of one's check from the South Dakota Democratic party — and, naturally, the greater dimensions of the voter-fraud problem election officials must now untangle.
On Thursday, two women in Fall River County discovered that someone had forged Republican registration cards and reregistered them in counties at the other end of the state as Democrats — a move which could have deprived the people initially registered of their right to vote.
www.nationalreview.com /comment/comment-lauck102902.asp   (1100 words)

  
 Boating America South Dakota
This is one of six large lakes on the Missouri River.
This area is located from Pierre along South Dakota State Routes 34 and 50 to Chamberlain.
This is South Dakota's largest lake and features Lewis and Clark campsites, trading posts and many historical landmarks.
www.boatingamerica.com /states/southdakota/southdak.htm   (697 words)

  
 South Dakota Publications (full listing)
Littleton, R.T., 1949, Geology and ground-water hydrology of the Angostura irrigation project, South Dakota, with a section on Mineral quality of the waters, by H.H. Swenson: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 54.
Rosier, A.J., 1953, Ground-water resources of the Rapid Valley unit, Cheyenne Division, South Dakota, with a section on Surface waters of Rapid Valley, by L.J. Snell: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 201, 32 p.
Koch, N.C., 1969, Effects of reservoir filling on a buried aquifer of glacial origin in Campbell County, South Dakota, in U.S. Geological Survey, Geological Survey Research 1969: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 650-B, Chap.
sd.water.usgs.gov /pubs/biblio/bibliodata.html   (8551 words)

  
 North Dakota State Historic Sites
Chaska, an Indian Scout, died at Camp Banks and was buried in the fortification ditch that surrounded the campsite.
Fort Buford was built in 1866 near the confluence of the Missouri and Yellowstone rivers, and became a major supply depot for military field operations.
Photographs shown on the State Historical Society of North Dakota's web site are taken from the collections of the State Historical Society of North Dakota and may not be included in any publication, printed or online, without the written permission of the Society.
www.state.nd.us /hist/sitelist.htm   (3520 words)

  
 Wounded Hawk: Chief Iron Bear
His place of birth was the Awahu village on the west side of the river.
Born before the visit of Lewis and Clark to the Grand River Villages, he learned tactics of warfare from his father and uncle and was chosen for theses skills.
The tribes that assembled were called together for the purpose of establishing and confirming peaceful relations amongst themselves, to abstain from all hostilites whatever against each other, to maintain good faith and friendship in all their mutual intercourse, and to make an effective and lasting peace.
www.natureshift.org /Whawk/resource/ironbear.html   (340 words)

  
 Grand River township, Perkins County, South Dakota (SD) Detailed Profile
Grand River township, Perkins County, South Dakota (SD) Detailed Profile
Grand River township, Perkins County, South Dakota (SD)
Back to: Perkins County, South Dakota (SD), All US cities.
www.city-data.com /township/Grand-River-Perkins-SD.html   (112 words)

  
 South Dakota Mortgage - Information
After of South Dakota in 1975 the South Dakota House of the South Dakota Senate from representing South Dakota at large from South Dakota and United from South Dakota.
The eastern South Dakota to its in South Dakota has become South Dakota State Highway states: South Dakota Wyoming External North in the, of Amidon, North Amidon in North Slope County North Sioux County North Dakota Shields.
South Dakota lyrics and the South Dakota Symphony Category:South Category:Music of subdivisions South Dakota County, South Dakota.
www.freewebs.com /information24/south-dakota-mortgage.html   (281 words)

  
 Canku Ota - December 13, 2003 - December brings thoughts of Sitting Bull's death
It might have been snowing, like it is today, when tribal police set out to arrest Sitting Bull on Dec. 15, 1890, at the Grand River in South Dakota.
Even though he chose not to learn the white man's ways or be a part of their Christian religion, he did send his children to a nearby Christian school to be educated because he wanted them to learn to read and write.
When we're there in the summer, the river is small and girlish.
www.turtletrack.org /Issues03/Co12132003/CO_12132003_Dorreen_Sitting.htm   (884 words)

  
 Treasuredude -- Sitting Bull's Bones   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Sitting Bull was born around 1831 near the Grand River in South Dakota.
Once, in 1872, during a battle with soldiers protecting railroad workers on the Yellowstone River, Sitting Bull led four other warriors out between the lines, sat calmly sharing a pipe with them as bullets buzzed around, carefully cleaned the pipe out when they were finished, and then casually walked away.
In 1953, under cover of darkness, a group of South Dakotans dug up what they believed to be his bones and reburied them on a bluff overlooking the Missouri River near Mobridge, South Dakota.
pie.midco.net /treasuredude/sitting.html   (379 words)

  
 Sakakawea South Shore
Welcome to North Dakota and the Sakakawea South Shore Region.
If you're going upstream, the mighty Missouri River takes its turn west, revealing the south shore of Lake Sakakawea and all of its natural beauty.
See the lake and river up close, or learn about the high tech energy and agriculture industries in the area.
www.tonydean.com /98/sponsors/sakakaweasouthshore   (165 words)

  
 River View Estates - Pierre, South Dakota Real Estate property from Hinkley Realty
Where, with a grand finale full view of 20 miles, you are sitting in the area of an ancient overlook of the Missouri River Breaks.
Down river you can spot 'Stoney Point' on the west bank and up river you can see the 'Dome' on the Pierre, South Dakota State Capitol Building.
South Dakota is the Land of Infinite Variety!
www.hinkleyrealty.com   (328 words)

  
 South Dakota, A chronology for SD, part of the ALHN project   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
South Dakota, A chronology for SD, part of the ALHN project
1787—Joseph Garreau settled with Rees at mouth of Grand River.
The Rees retreat up river and settle with relatives at mouth of Grand River.
www.usgennet.org /usa/sd/state/chron1.htm   (793 words)

  
 The Grand River Museum
The Grand River museum has a large display of dinosaur fossils, Native American, and Ranching/Homesteading history of the local area.
They are set apart from most dinosaur museums because of their commitment to Creation Science.
exhibits, etc. We will be one of the six museums in South Dakota hosting the 2005 Smithsonian Exhibit from Aug. 20 to Sept. 27, 2005.
www.sdhistory.org /soc/Hist_Orgs/grandrivermus.htm   (156 words)

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