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A Brief History Napoleon Bonaparte of France needed cash for his war against the English, so he was glad to turn loose of the French landholdings in faraway America that were basically the western half of the Mississippi River watershed. Against domestic opposition, President Thomas Jefferson paid $15 million in 1803 for the 828,000 square miles (2,140,000 km²), which was 3¢ per acre in 1803 dollars (or 42¢ per acre in 2012 dollars). Jefferson also commissioned the Lewis & Clark Expedition that departed Illinois in May 1804, reached the mouth of the Columbia River in December 1805, and returned to St. Louis in September 1806; the trip was roughly 4,300 miles in length and took two years, four months, and ten days time.

The northern portion of the Louisiana Purchase became the Dakota Territory on 2 March 1861, covering present-day North & South Dakota, most of present-day Montana, and about half of present-day Wyoming. Settlers stayed away due to the hostile Indian tribes until after the U.S. Civil War, at which time the Northern Pacific Railway began laying track from Minne-sota, across North Dakota, toward Seattle & Tacoma in Oregon Territory. The discovery of gold at French Creek in the Black Hills (by George Custer!) increased pressure to conquer the warlike Native American tribes. Custer died, of course, at the Battle of Little Big Horn in June 1876, which although a victory for the Indians, magnified political pressure in the East to push the Indians back.
The Lakota and Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes were defeated by the U.S. Army in Spring 1877, and the Indians were restricted to reservations and treated badly by the Bureau of Indian Affairs. (The U.S. Supreme Court found in July 1980 that the Black Hills were taken from the Lakota illegally, and awarded them $106 million. The Lakota Tribe refuses to take the money because they want their sacred land back; the payment is stashed in an interest-earning escrow account and has grown to $760 million.)

The population of the Dakota Territory grew rapidly after the Indians were pacified, and the states of North Dakota and South Dakota were admitted to the Union together on 2 November 1889 as the 39th & 40th states. (Montana also was admitted in November 1889, and Wyoming was admitted in July 1890.)

actress (Hannah) Dakota Fanning [b. 1994]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dakota_Fanning

American jazz vocalist Dakota Staton [1930-2007]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dakota_Staton

North Dakota Official Government Links & Info
North Dakota covers 70,700 square miles {183,272 square kilometers}.
Estimated population of 16,000 in 1878, grew to almost 600,000 population by 1910, and has remained fairly steady in the 100 years since then.
The current population is 739,482 (2014 estimate); the density is 10.5/square mile (ranked 47th).
The state was admitted to the Union on 2 November 1889 {the 39th state}.
The popular names are 'Roughrider State', 'Flickertail State', 'Peace Garden State', 'Sioux State'.
The state flower is the Wild Prairie Rose (Rosa arkansana); the state tree is the American Elm (Ulmus americana).
The state bird is the Western Meadowlark (Sturnella neglecta).
The state animal is the Nokota horse; the state fish is the Northern pike (Esox lucius).
Time zones in North Dakota are Central Time for most of the state, Mountain Time in the lower corner south & west of the Missouri River.

South Dakota Official Government Links & Info
South Dakota covers 77,116 square miles {199,905 square kilometers}.
The current population is 853,175 (2014 estimate); the density is 11.1/square mile (ranked 46th).
The state was admitted to the Union on 2 November 1889 {the 40th state}.
The popular name is 'Mount Rushmore State'.
The state flower is the American Pasque flower; the state tree is the Black Hills Spruce.
The state animal is the Coyote; the state bird is the Ring-necked Pheasant.
Time zones in South Dakota are Central in the eastern half, Mountain in the western half.

Mount Rushmore is in Pennington County, South Dakota
construction of Mount Rushmore and the Alex Johnson Hotel began in 1927
Mt Rushmore = www.NPS.gov/moru/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Rushmore_National_Memorial

www.Mining-Museum.BlackHills.com
www.BlackHills.com
www.WesternHeritageCenter.com
www.SoutheastSouthDakota.com
Ted Turner's Bad River Ranch in central South Dakota
http://www.spiritofthewestfestival.com/
www.CrazyHorse.org
http://www.sdhalloffame.com/

South Dakota Animation Festival [Oct 2013 = #3] in Brookings, South Dakota

South Dakota State University in Brookings, South Dakota

www.Deadwood.org = Deadwood's CofC
www.historicFranklinHotel.com [est. 1903]
www.AdamsMuseumAndHouse.org
www.PennyMotel.com in Deadwood
The Midnight Star in Deadwood, South Dakota. http://www.themidnightstar.com

http://www.amazon.com/Black-Hills-Women-Bedside-Reader/dp/1560374357/
http://www.amazon.com/Deadwood-1876-1976-SD-Images-America/dp/0738539791/
http://www.amazon.com/Deadwood-Golden-Years-Watson-Parker/dp/080328702X/
http://www.amazon.com/Deadwood-Nights-Secrets-Andrew-Estoclet/dp/1461057981/

Amtrak runs the daily long-distance Empire Builder passenger train between Chicago and the Pacific Northwest (with a choice of Seattle or Portland as the start or end point);
the entire route is approximately 2,200 miles in length and takes about 45 hours to complete with stops in Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota – Fargo, Grand Forks,
Devils Lake, Rugby, Minot, Stanley, Williston – Montana, Idaho, Washington, and Oregon. There is no Amtrak passenger service in South Dakota.

North Dakota State Railroad Museum [est. ??], 3102 - 37th Street NW in Mandan, North Dakota

Black Hills Central Railroad [built 1890; re-opened 1957-72; rebuilt/opened 2001] - Keystone to Hill City

official website {broken 8/2022} • Wikipedia
B.H.C.R.R. has two steam locomotives on display, three steam locomotives in operation, and two diesel locomotives; the historic 1880 Train is a two- to 2½-hour ride
from Keystone, SD to Hill City and back; B.H.C.R.R. steam tourist passenger trains operated on CB&Q's Hill City to Keystone line from 1957-1972; B.H.C.R.R. rebuilt
the line into Keystone and resumed tourist passenger service in 2001.

narrow-gauge Black Hills Railroad / Black Hills & Fort Pierre Railway [1881-1904]
Homestake began construction in 1881; renamed BH&FP Railway in 1882; reached Piedmont in 1890; merged into the CB&Q in 1904.

indep D&I Railroad (nicknamed 'Dakota & Iowa RR') [est. 1985]
http://www.lgeverist.com/dirailroad/ + http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%26I_Railroad

Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern Railroad [1986-2008]
purchased Union Pacific line from Chadron to Rapid City and Belle Fourche in 1996; sold & absorbed into the Canadian Pacific Railway in 2008.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dakota,_Minnesota_and_Eastern_Railroad

Dakota, Missouri Valley & Western RR
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dakota,_Missouri_Valley_and_Western_Railroad

190-mile Dakota Southern Railway DSRC [1985-2021]
http://www.midwestpacificrr.com/dakota-southern + http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dakota_Southern_Railway

narrow-gauge Deadwood Central Railway [1888-1904]
construction began between Deadwood and Lead in 1888; merged into the CB&Q in 1904.

standard-gauge Fremont, Elkhorn & Missouri Valley Railroad [1885-1903] subsidiary of the C&NW completes a line to Buffalo Gap, Dakota Territory
in 1885; reached Rapid City in 1886; reached Belle Fourche, Deadwood, and Hot Springs in 1890; merged into the C&NW in 1903.

Grand Island & Wyoming Central Railroad [1889-1904] subsidiary of the CB&Q reached Edgemont in 1889; reached Deadwood
and Hot Springs in 1891; reached Spearfish in 1893; merged into the CB&Q in 1904.

Iowa, Chicago & Eastern Railroad [purch/renamed 2002] operates in IA, IL, MN, MO, SD
I&M Rail Link was purchased by DM&E in 2002 & renamed
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iowa,_Chicago_and_Eastern_Railroad

Missouri River & Northwestern Railroad is completed from Rapid City to Mystic in 1906

670-mile Rapid City, Pierre & Eastern RCP&E #894
acquired by Genesee & Wyoming in 2014 http://www.gwrr.com/rcpe

490-mile Red River Valley & Western Railroad (RRVW) [est. 1987]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_River_Valley_and_Western_Railroad

Yellowstone Valley Railroad (YSVR) [built 1911-1915 by Great Northern Railway
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowstone_Valley_Railroad

Canadian Pacific Railway [] purchased Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern Railroad in 2008.

Chicago, Burlington & Quincy [-1970]
The Grand Island & Wyoming Central, the Burlington & Missouri River, the Black Hills & Fort Pierre, and Deadwood Central were formally merged into the CB&Q Railroad
in 1904; the last CB&Q passenger train from Deadwood to Edgemont was in 1949; the last CB&Q passenger train from Newcastle and Edgemont was in 1969; CB&Q merged
into the Burlington Northern Railroad in 1970 (which became the BN&SF Railway in 1995); the former CB&Q High Line grade from Edgemont to Deadwood was rebuilt
as the 106-mile George S. Mickelson Trail from 1991-98.

Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad [] reached Rapid City from Chamberlain in 1907

Chicago & North Western [-1995] - reached Rapid City from Pierre in 1907; last C&NW passenger train from Rapid City to Chicago in 1960;
merged into the Union Pacific Railroad in 1995.

Soo Line Railroad (SOO) [1961-90] operates as Canadian Pacific Railway in MN, WI, IL & ND
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soo_Line_Railroad

"Making The Grade – A Century of Black Hills Railroading" [Battle Creek Publng, 1985] by Rick W. Mills

"A High Line Scrapbook – The Burlington’s Line To Deadwood" [Battle Creek Publng, 1986] by Greg Walters & Rick W. Mills

"Railroading In The Land of Infinite Variety: A History of South Dakota’s Railroads" [Battle Creek Publng, 1990] by Rick W. Mills

"125 Years of Black Hills Railroading" [Battle Creek Publng, 2004] by Rick W. Mills

flag of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota [est. 1889]

seal of Crow Creek Sioux Tribe [est. 1863]

There are eleven Native American tribal reservations in the Dakotas, for members of the Blackfeet, Chippewa, Sioux, and several minor tribes.

Cheyenne River Indian Reservation [est. 1868] of the Blackfeet, Miniconjou, Sans Arcs & Two Kettle Sioux {in South Dakota}

Devils Lake Indian Reservation [est. 1867] of the Spirit Lake Tribe {in North Dakota}

Fort Berthold Indian Reservation [est. 1851] of the Mandan, Hidatsa & Arikara Nations {in North Dakota}

Lake Traverse Indian Reservation [est. 1867] of the Sisseton & Wahpeton Sioux {in South Dakota}

Lower Brulé Indian Reservation [est. 1868] of the Lower Brulé & Yanktonai Sioux {in South Dakota}

Standing Rock Indian Reservation [est. 1868] of the Blackfeet, Hunkpapa & Yanktonai Sioux {in North Dakota}

Red Bird All-Indian Traveling Band novel by Frances Washburn

"The Red Bird All-Indian Traveling Band" [2014]
by Frances Washburn
Set in 1969 on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota; a local rock band
is run off the stage by a barrage of beer bottles, and before night's end, local
activist Buffalo Ames is dead.
Univ AZ Press 8¼x5½ pb [2/2014] for $13.16
author's ASU-AIS faculty homepage

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Golden_Bowl_(Manfred)
http://www.amazon.com/Golden-Feike-Feikema-Frederick-Manfred/dp/B0007DPATQ/

"Badlands of Dakota" Western feature [Universal Pictures/General Film Distributors Sept 1941]

'Badlands of Dakota' 1941 feature release

Dubbed in Spanish and released in Mexico as "Aventureros de Dakota" in February 1942; the villain's renegades, disguised as Indians, rob the stage-coach gold shipments, aided by information supplied by the local agent for the stagecoach line; when the Sioux attack and set fire to the town, the villain and his gang members, disguised as Indians and under cover of the attack, execute their plan for robbing the bank • Produced by George Waggner; directed by Alfred E. Green; screenplay by Gerald Geraghty, based on a Harold Shumate story; additional comedy by Victor McLeod; music by Hans J. Salter & Frank Skinner; cinematography by Stanley Cortez; starring Robert Stack, Ann Rutherford, Richard Dix {as 'Wild Bill' Hickok}, Frances Farmer, Broderick Crawford, Hugh Herbert, Andy Devine, Lon Chaney Jr. {as Jack McCall}, Fuzzy Knight, Addison Richards {as Gen. George Custer}, The Jesters {as 1876 saloon entertainers}, Thomas Herman, Richard Alexander, Don Barclay, Robert Barron, Hank Bell, Al Bridge, Jean Brooks, Paul Bryar, John Cason, Jess Cavin, Harry Cording, Rube Dalroy, Eddie Dew, Joe Dominguez, Curley Dresden, Tex Driscoll, Elias English, Jim Farley, Edward Fielding, Willie Fung, Slim Gaut, Charles Gordon, Al Haskell, Samuel S. Hinds, George Huggins, Charles King, Joe King, Al Kunde, Ethan Laidlaw, Robert Lewis, Cactus Mack, Kermit Maynard {as a poker player}, Chuck Morrison, Bradley Page, Tex Phelps, Harry Raven, Clinton Rosemond, John Roy, William Ruhl, Carl Sepulveda, George Sowards, Glenn Strange, Emmett Vogan, Nolan Willis, Carleton Young
full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia
Region 1 VHS/DVD/Blu-ray not available • watch full b&w movie with Spanish subtitles [6/2020 upload; 1:13:31] online at YouTube

"Dakota" Western feature [Republic Pictures Nov 1945]

Dakota 1945 Western feature starring John Wayne

Gambler John Devlin and his new wife travel to Dakota Territory hoping to cash in on the land boom created by railroad expansion. On their trip west, two swindlers steal their savings, a dangerous riverboat chase ensues, and the criminals make a clean getaway. Bender and Collins have been pillaging farms around the town of Fargo and driving the farmers out of the Territory, and in a desperate attempt to get back his savings and see justice prevail, Devlin joins the wheat farmers in a heated range battle against the vicious gang of crooks. • Produced & directed by Joseph Kane; second-unit director & stuntman Yakima Canutt; original story by Carl Foreman, adaptation by Howard Estabrook, screenplay by Lawrence Hazard; music by Walter Scharf; starring John Wayne [1907-79], Vera Hruba Ralston, Walter Brennan, Ward Bond, Ona Munson, Hugo Haas, Mike Mazurki, Olive Blakeney, Nick Stewart, Paul Fix, Grant Withers, Robert Livingston, Olin Howland, Pierre Watkin, Robert H. Barrat, Jonathan Hale, Robert 'Bobby' Blake, Paul Hurst, Eddy Waller, Sarah Padden, Jack La Rue, George Cleveland, Selmer Jackson, Claire Du Brey, Roy Barcroft, Rex Lease, Kansas Moehring, Noble 'Kid' Chissell, stuntman Fred Graham, stuntman Cliff Lyons, Fred Aldrich, Geraldine Farnum, Blackie Whiteford
full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia
K.L. Studio Classics b&w Blu-ray [3/2017] for $15.39
Maple Pictures Canada b&w DVD [3/2017] for $11.98
K.L. Studio Classics b&w DVD [3/2017] for $17.95
Republic Pictures b&w DVD [5/2002] for $18.50
LionsGate Video b&w VHS [1/99] for $4.99
watch full b&w movie - subtitles in Spanish, CC in English [6/2018 upload; 1:21:49] online at YouTube

"Dakota Lil" Western feature [Fox Feb 1950]

comic book cover for 'Dakota Lil' 1950 Western feature film

Female outlaw helps lawmen trap railroad bandits • Produced by Edward L. Alperson & Jack Jungmeyer Jr.; directed by Lesley Selander; screenplay by Maurice Geraghty, based on a story by Frank Gruber [1904-69]; music by Dimitri Tiomkin; starring George Montgomery {as agent Tom Horn / Steve Garrett}, Rod Cameron {as Harve Logan / Kid Curry}, Marie Windsor, John Emery, Wallace Ford, Jack Lambert, Larry Johns, James Flavin, Marion Martin, Walter Sande {as Butch Cassidy}, Lillian Bronson, Clancy Cooper, John Dako, Anita Ellis (singing voice of Dakota Lil), Kenneth MacDonald, Bill Perrott, J. Farrell MacDonald, Alberto Morin, Victor Adamson, Tex Cooper, Daniel Estrada, Joel Friedkin, Nacho Galindo, Sol Gorss, Tom Greenway, Herman Hack, Alvin Hammer, Ben Harris, Al Haskell, Bryan 'Slim' Hightower, Soledad Jiménez, Jamesson Shade, Arne Hjorth, Jack Kenny, Frank Lackteen, Leo J. McMahon, Kansas Moehring, Bob Morgan, Jack Perrin, Robert Robinson, Felipe Turich, Rosa Turich
full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia
Region 1 VHS/DVD/Blu-ray not available
"Dakota Lil ~ Español Completa" in Spanish with Spanish subtitles [1950]
watch full Spanish-dubbed movie [2/2018 upload; 2:21:01] online at YouTube

"King of The Dakotas" two-episode story [California National Prodns Nov 1955]
of the 31-episode "Frontier" TV series [NBC-TV 1955-56]

King of The Dakotas 1955 twin NBC-TV episodes

Filming based at Hal Roach Studios in Culver City, California; a French expatriate with a reputation as a duelist plans to create a cattle empire in the Dakota Territory but runs into opposition from the ranchers that he has mistreated; actor credits include judge, jury & prosecutor • Season 1, Episodes 7 & 8; series created by Morton S. Fine & David Friedkin; co-produced by Carroll Case & Matthew Rapf; co-produced & directed by Worthington Miner; episode written by Morton S. Fine & David Friedkin; series narrated by Walter Coy; episodes starring Tom Tryon, Phyllis Coates, Alan Hale Jr., Dick Wessel, Walter Baldwin, Paul Langton, George Chandler, James Gavin, George Meader, Dabbs Greer, Herbert Heyes, William Newell, Phil Tead, Raymond Bailey, Stafford Repp, Dennis Moore, Ben Corbett, Cactus Mack
VHS/DVD/Blu-ray not available • Part 1 credits at IMDb • Part 2 credits at IMDb • series credits at IMDb
watch Part 1 [6/2019 upload; 27:58] online at YouTube
Part 2 not found at Westerns On The Web [est. 2011] nor on YouTube (8/2022)

"Dakota Incident" Western feature [Republic Pictures July 1956]

Filmed in Trucolor; Indians attack the stage to Laramie, the horses run off, the coach is burned, and the sur-vivors take refuge in a dry gully – a disparate band of passengers who must band together to fight them off.
Presented by Herbert J. Yates; produced by Michael Baird; directed by Lewis R. Foster; written by Frederick Louis Fox; starring Linda Darnell, Dale Robertson, John Lund, Ward Bond, Regis Toomey, Skip Homeier, Irving Bacon, John Doucette, Whit Bissell, William Fawcett, Malcolm Atterbury, Diane DuBois, Charles Horvath, Eddie Baker, Bob Burns, Fred Coby, Robert Hinkle, Jack Lewis, Rankin Mansfield, Eva Novak, Dorothy Vernon • full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia
Region 1 DVD/Blu-ray not available • Republic Studios color VHS [5/97] out of prodn/used
Amazon Instant Video [2014] rental SD $5.99, purchase SD $14.99
watch full movie in color [4/2021 upload; 2:01:36] online at YouTube

"The Dakotas" Western TV series [Warner Bros. TV/ABC-TV Jan-May 1963]

comic book for 'The Dakotas' 1963 Western TV series

'The Dakotas' complete 1963 Western TV series

Considered to be a spin-off of Clint Walker's "Cheyenne": the series pilot was broadcast as an episode of "Cheyenne" in April 1962; 19 episodes were broadcast on the ABC Network; viewers protested content, series was abruptly cancelled, with episode #20 never broadcast; a U.S. Marshal and his three deputies try to keep order in the Dakota Territory prior to statehood in 1889 • Series produced by William T. Orr, Anthony Spinner & Jules Schermer; multiple directors, multiple writers; series regulars were Larry Ward, Jack Elam, Chad Everett & Michael Greene; guest actors included Lee Van Cleef, Michael Constantine, Audrey Dalton, Royal Dano, Frank DeKova, Constance Ford, Bert Freed, Joan Freeman, Dennis Hopper, Richard Jaeckel, George Macready, Strother Martin, Joanna Moore, Sue Randall, Ed Nelson, Steve Brodie, Elisha Cook Jr., Ted de Corsia, Dick Foran, Coleen Gray, DeForest Kelley, Werner Klemperer, Richard Loo, Roger Mobley, Warren Stevens, Whit Bissell, Joe Di Reda, Tom Drake, Dennis Patrick, Hayden Rorke, Karl Swenson, Anne Whitfield, Milton Frome, Russell Johnson, Robert J. Wilke, Arch Johnson, William Bramley, Victor French, Dayton Lummis, Cliff Osmond, Michael Pate, Wallace Rooney, Les Tremayne, Alex Montoya, Mercedes McCambridge, Eugene Iglesias, Woodrow Parfrey, Telly Savalas, Andrew Duggan, Bill Erwin, Beverly Garland, Everett Sloane, Harry Townes, Claude Akins, Sailor Vincent, Boyd 'Red' Morgan, Rudy Doucette, Roy Glenn, I. Stanford Jolley, King Mojave, George Savalas, Bill Scully, James Van Horn, Chalky Williams • series credits at IMDb • series entry at Wikipedia
Warner Archive Collection b&w DVD box set [3/2015] 5 disks for $38.28
watch title/opening/theme music compilation [3/2021 upload; 1:54] online at YouTube

Crude Independence docufilm by Noah Hutton

"Crude Independence" documentary feature [indep 2009]
When oil was discovered under North Dakota in the Bakken Shale formation in 2006, oil companies swarmed over the land, expecting that they would get rich very quickly using new 'fracking' technologies; filmmaker Hutton {son of actress Debra Winger} documented the changes that took place in the tiny (pop. 1,300) town of Stanley. • Exec produced by Jonathan Demme; directed by Noah Hutton
DVD/Blu-ray not yet available • credits at IMDb
watch 9/2008 official trailer [4:20] at YouTube

"The King of North Dakota" comedy (in development since 2015)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3995660/ + http://www.redproductions.com/portfolio/

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	"Theodore Roosevelt and The Dakota Badlands" [N.P.S. brochure 1958] by Chester L. Brooks & Ray H. Mattison Kindle Edition from indep [5/2012] for $5.97 TRN&H Assn. 9x5¾ chapbook [rev 1983] out of print/used National Park Service chapbook [1962] out of print/used National Park Service chapbook [1958] out of print/used
	"Dakota Boomtown" Western novel [1958] by Frank Castle Penniless vagrant Jack Stuart endures street fights, crazy gambling bets, and hotel ambushes to stand up to the richest, most powerful men in town. Fawcett Gold Medal mass pb [5/79] out of print/used Fawcett Gold Medal mass pb [1958] out of print/used Fawcett Gold Medal mass pb [1958] out of print/used Fawcett Gold Medal mass pb [1958] out of print/used
	"Dakota" [2005 novel] by Matt Braun New York politician Theodore Roosevelt's wife and mother died on the same night in February 1884; depressed and fed up with politics, he 'retired' that Summer to his ranch in North Dakota, restoring his body and his soul with the life of an outdoorsman; after the severe winter of 1886-87 wiped out the cattle ranchers, he returned to New York. Kindle Edition from Macmillan [4/2010] for $7.99 St. Martin's mass pb [8/2005] out of print/many used
	"The Romance of My Life: Theodore Roosevelt's Speeches In Dakota" [1989] Edited by James F. Vivian Prairie House hardcover [6/89] out of print/used
	"Theodore Roosevelt In The Dakota Badlands: An Historical Guide" [2006] by Clay S. Jenkinson Dickinson State Univ 7¼x4 pb [2006] out of print/used
	"Theodore Roosevelt In The Badlands: A Young Politician's Quest For Recovery In The American West" [2011] by Roger L. DiSilvestro Kindle Edition from Walker Books [3/2011] for $10.46 Walker & Co. 8¼x5½ pb [9/2012] for $11.01 Walker & Co. 9½x6½ hardcover [3/2011] for $20.52

	Dakota Farmer Magazine subscribe at Amazon: 15 issues/year for $26.95 magazine website publisher Farm Progress [est. 1819] entry at Wikipedia
	"The Homesteader: A Novel" [1917] by filmmaker Oscar Micheaux [1884-1951] A young Afro-American purchases land in South Dakota, and in the face of drought, pestilence & foreclosure, he turns to writing; his marriage to the daughter of a Chicago minister collapses in acrimony and high drama. The 1919 movie was the first feature-length film by an Afro-American director • the film is considered lost Kessinger Publng 9x6 pb [10/2007] for $32.64 Univ Nebraska Press 8x5¼ pb [5/94] out of print/used Kessinger Publng 9x6 hardcover [6/2008] for $42.30
	"Unequal Contest: Bill Langer & His Political Enemies" [2004] by Robert Vogel Langer was a populist leader in North Dakota who fought for economic justice, was impeached as Governor, was re-elected, and then served as a U.S. Senator. Crain Grosinger pb [9/2004] out of print/used
	"Prairie Republic: The Political Culture of Dakota Territory, 1879-1889" [2010] by Jon K. Lauck Univ Oklahoma Press 8½x5½ hardcover [5/2010] for $32.95 Univ Oklahoma Press 8½x5½ hardcover [5/2010] out of print/used
	"Swede's Ferry: A Novel" [2013] by Allan Safarik, with Illustrations by Frederic Remington [1861-1909] A Canadian Mountie robs the bank at Bismarck, North Dakota and runs afoul of railroad magnate James J. Hill and of vicious detective Wm. Pinkerton and his brutal henchmen. Kindle Edition from Coteau Books [10/2013] for $7.96 Coteau Books 8½x5½ pb [10/2013] for $16.37

G.E. Nordell'sThe DakotasTravel & Business Links Page

G.E. Nordell's
The Dakotas
Travel & Business Links Page