. The New England magazine . •«r^ The Falls of the Sioux THE DAKOTA METROPOLIS.^ HE name Dakotahas become a syn-onym for westernpluck and enterprise ;but the poets sang of the Land of the Dacotahs even before the energyof her inhabitants hadshaped her years ago amilitary post — oldFort Dakota —was about the onlyartificial mark onall the landscapeabout Sioux antennae ofcivilization had pre-viously been reachingout to this point, but it was yet too earlyfor even western rush to linger long — andthe town-lot, that harbinger of westernprogress, was not known in the land un
. The New England magazine . •«r^ The Falls of the Sioux THE DAKOTA METROPOLIS.^ HE name Dakotahas become a syn-onym for westernpluck and enterprise ;but the poets sang of the Land of the Dacotahs even before the energyof her inhabitants hadshaped her years ago amilitary post — oldFort Dakota —was about the onlyartificial mark onall the landscapeabout Sioux antennae ofcivilization had pre-viously been reachingout to this point, but it was yet too earlyfor even western rush to linger long — andthe town-lot, that harbinger of westernprogress, was not known in the land until1871. The first attempt at settlement in whatis now the state of South Dakota was atSioux Falls, toward the close of 1856, bya land company formed at Dubuque,Iowa, by Dr. Geo. M. Staples and others,called the Western Town-site Company.
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