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Black Hills,
A group of mountains situated chiefly in South Dakota and the northwestern part of Wyoming.
Several of the peaks reach an altitude of from 2.000 to 3,000 feet above the surrounding plain, and the highest summit of all is Mount Harney, which is 7,400 feet. In 1875 the Dakota Indians ceded the region to the United States, and immediately a valuable mining industry sprang up. In 1875-91 the district yielded gold to the value of $45,000.000, and silver to the value of more than $2,000.000. Valuable deposits of tin have also been found on Mount Harney.
For later productions in this region see gold; South Dakota.
Blackfeet Indians,
A confederacy of North American Indians, also called the Siksika.
It is one of the most important tribes in the Northwest, and is composed of three divisions: the Blackfeet proper; the Kino.
or Blood: and the Piegan.
They occupy northern Montana and the adjacent part of Canada, a region extending from the Rocky Mountains to the Milk River at its junction with the Missouri, and from the Belly and Saskatchewan rivers in Canada to the Mussel Shell River in Montana.
In 1900 they were believed to number about 7,000.
There were 2.022 Bloods and Piegans at the Blackfeet agency in Montana, a number of Blackfeet Sioux at the Cheyenne River agency in South Dakota and the Standing Rock agency in North Dakota, and the Siksika and the remainder of the Bloods, or Kinos, were in Canada.
Blizzard,
A storm noted for its high wind.
extreme cold, and hard, sharp, fine crystals of snow.
It appears first east of the Rocky Mountains on the plains of Canada, and sweeps into the United States through Wyoming, North Dakota, and Minnesota, but seldom prevails east of the Great Lakes, excepting when the ground has had a long covering of snow.
It is a very dangerous storm, as the fine snow fills the air and prevents any one exposed to it from seeing his way. In the blizzard that occurred in January, 1888, extending from Dakota to Texas. 235 persons perished.
On March 11-14, 1888, a blizzard raged throughout the Eastern States that will long be remembered.
New York and Philadelphia suffered the most severely of all the cities in its path.
At one time the snow-laden wind blew at the rate of 46 miles an hour.
Streets and railroads were blocked, telegraph-wires were blown down, and many lives were lost.
Boycotting,
A practice which derives its name from Capt. C. C. Boycott, of Lough Mask House, in Mayo, Ireland, who in 1880, as land agent of Lord Erne, an Irish nobleman, evicted a large number of tenants.
These with their friends refused to either work for him or trade with him, and would not permit others to do so. Finally sixty Orangemen from the north of Ireland, armed with revolvers and supported by a strong escort of cavalry, organized themselves into a Boycott relief expedition, and after gathering his crops carried him to a place of safety.
In the United States and England the boycott is sometimes used by trade unions in times of strikes.
More or less stringent laws against boycotting have been enacted in Illinois, Wisconsin, Colorado, Connecticut. Maine. Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Alabama. Florida, Georgia. Michigan, North Dakota, Oklahoma. Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, and Vermont.
Dakota Indians.
See Sioux Indians.