One of the people that soon became a good friend of Nelson was Enos Stutsman, a prominent attorney in Dakota Territory. In the early spring of 1866, Stutsman had been appointed as a treasury agent ...

In 1866, Gall went to the ... In 1869, the Lakota who had rejected the Fort Laramie Treaty met in south-central Dakota Territory to form an organization that would “protect their traditional way ...

In addition, if anyone still wonders if I am biased, they should read my book The Fort Sisseton Dakota Scouts and Their Camps in Eastern Dakota Territory — 1863– 1866.

This sweeping novel about the late 19th-century settling of Dakota Territory is not a substitute for O. E. Rolvaag's "Giants in the Earth," that greatest of immigrants-on-the- prairie stories. But ...

The Prairie Fire at Fort Ransom, Dakota Territory--Painful Scenes--Loss of Life. Share full article. Oct. 26, 1867. Credit... The New York Times Archives.