Some Pioneers and Pilgrims on the Prairies of Dakota

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Author

Reese, H. B.

Title

Some Pioneers and Pilgrims on the Prairies of Dakota Or, From the Ox Team to the Aeroplane

Credits

Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

F590.3: United States local history: The West. Trans-Mississippi Region. Great Plains

Subject

Frontier and pioneer life -- South Dakota

Category

Text

eBook-No.

37765

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/37765

Release Date

October 16, 2011

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.SOME PIONEERS and PILGRIMS ON THE PRAIRIES OF DAKOTA — OR — From the Ox Team to the Aeroplane — Edited and Published by — REV. JOHN B. REESE, A.M., B.D. — H.B. REESE — MITCHELL, SOUTH DAKOTA AUGUST, 1920 — TABLE OF CONTENTS — GREETING — CHAPTER I — Prying Open the Door into the Rich Lands of the Dakotas — CHAPTER II ToC — The Second Coming of the Norsemen to America — CHAPTER III ToC — The First Settlement of the Prairie From the Missouri Bottom North as Far as the Turkey Creek Valley — CHAPTER IV ToC — First Settlement and Settlers of the "South Prairie," 1861-71, Memorable Trip in Search of Work — CHAPTER V ToC — The Settlements on Turkey Creek, and Clay Creek, '70-71 — CHAPTER VI ToC — The Great Immigration of 1880—Cause of — CHAPTER VII ToC — Landing At Yankton And Getting On The Land — CHAPTER VIII ToC — The Pioneer Mothers And Their Part In The Struggle — CHAPTER IX ToC — Indians As Occasional Guests And Visitors — CHAPTER X ToC — The Great Snow Winter of 1880-1 and the Great Flood Of 1881—Building A Boat — CHAPTER XI ToC — Beginning Their Real Struggle With The Earth — CHAPTER XII ToC — A Bird's Eye View of the Country as it Appeared In 1800-3 — CHAPTER XIII ToC — The Annual Prairie Fires—The Terror Of The Settlers — CHAPTER XIV ToC — The Great Blizzard Of 1888 — CHAPTER XV ToC — When The Fathers And Mothers Of Today Were Boys And Girls — CHAPTER XVI ToC — Religious Movements And Workers Among These People — CHAPTER XVII ToC — Biographical And Autobiographical Sketches — A Daughter Settlement — (Narrated in part by H.B. Reese) — CHAPTER XVIII ToC — Looking Down The Trail To The Years Ahead — Social And Religious — THE END. — I AM THE IMMIGRANT

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