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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), South Dakota, State of (search)
ota Territory located at Yankton......1862 Sioux Falls destroyed by the Sioux Indians, and settlers flee to Yankton......1862 Fort Dakota built on reservation at Sioux Falls......1865 Line of the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railroad built from Sioux City, Ia., to Yankton, completed......1873 Military and scientific exploring expedition, under Gen. G. A. Custer, arrives at the Black Hills, July, 1874, from Fort Abraham Lincoln. Specimens of gold are washed from the soil near Harney's Peak, where it was known to exist in 1867, but emigration thither was stopped by General Sherman on account of Indian troubles. This visit causes great excitement among the Sioux Indians......1874 Gold discovered in Deadwood and Whitewood gulches......1875 Indians relinquish their titles to lands in the Black Hills and western counties of southern Dakota......1876 Town of Deadwood laid out......1876 Dakota school for deaf-mutes at Sioux Falls opened......1880 Yankton Colleg