Dakota Territory

noun

1. a territory in the N central U.S., from 1861 to 1868 comprising present-day North Dakota and South Dakota, and parts of Montana and Wyoming.

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Long seen as a romantic symbol of the American West, its origins trace back nearly a century and a half to a lonesome railroad depot in the windswept grasslands of what was then Bonhomme County, Dakota Territory.

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The Lakota chief Sitting Bull and his starving band of followers ended nearly two decades of intermittent warfare with the United States on July 20, 1881, when they surrendered at Fort Buford, in Dakota Territory.

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Scandinavian farmers—struggling to make a living in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and the Dakota Territory—were often regarded with condescension by the New England cultural elites who appeared to dominate society in the northern part of the expanding nation.

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Before statehood in 1889, the Dakota territory had the country’s biggest increase in divorces — 6,691 percent — between 1882 and 1886.

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Then in 2004, he created his magnum opus, “Deadwood,” a drama set in the Dakota territory in the 1870s, a merciless era of American frontier expansion.

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