Dakota Territory
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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After leaving his newborn daughter in the care of his sister Bamie, a grief-stricken Roosevelt fled to his cattle ranch in the Dakota Territory.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 29, 2025
Theodore Roosevelt, for example, left his infant daughter Alice with his sister and escaped to a ranch in the Dakota Territory after his mother and wife both died on Valentine’s Day 1884.
From Slate • Jul. 4, 2022
The 19th century scientist traveled from the Dakota Territory to Brazil in order to collect specimens.
From Salon • Sep. 22, 2021
The show, which is regarded by Milch, and by many critics, as his best work, was set in the Dakota Territory in the eighteen-seventies.
From The New Yorker • May 20, 2019
He had also entertained them with stories of his hunting adventures in the Dakota Territory and read adventure and nature books to them.
From "Death on the River of Doubt" by Samantha Seiple
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