. North Dakota history and people; outlines of American history. of theDakotas than that of Charles F. Picotte, son of Honore Picotte and the daughterof Two Lance, known to the early settlers of the Missouri slope as Mrs. MajorGalpin, a full-blooded Sioux, her father a brave and influential chief. When eightyears of age young Picotte was placed in charge of the Rev. Father Peter JohnDeSmet, the Belgian missionary, who sent him to a boarding school at St. Joseph,Mo., where he remained fourteen years, acquired a liberal education in Frenchand English, and, returning to his tribe at twenty-two, w
. North Dakota history and people; outlines of American history. of theDakotas than that of Charles F. Picotte, son of Honore Picotte and the daughterof Two Lance, known to the early settlers of the Missouri slope as Mrs. MajorGalpin, a full-blooded Sioux, her father a brave and influential chief. When eightyears of age young Picotte was placed in charge of the Rev. Father Peter JohnDeSmet, the Belgian missionary, who sent him to a boarding school at St. Joseph,Mo., where he remained fourteen years, acquired a liberal education in Frenchand English, and, returning to his tribe at twenty-two, was employed by hisstep-father in trade with the Indians. FIRST D.\KOTA POST OFFICES .An examination of the records of the Post Office Department shows thefollowing facts relative to the establishment of early Dakota post offices: Pem-bina, 1855, Joseph Rolette, postmaster; Sioux Falls City, then in Nebraska Ter-ritory, James M. Allen, June 15, 1858; J. L. Phillips (Joseph B. Amidon,assistant), June 6, 1861; Sioux Falls, James Andrews, June 24, 1867; St. Joseph. CHARLES F. PICOTTE Half-breed Sioux. Pioneer of DakotaTerritory HISTORY OF NORTH DAKOTA 219 (now Walhalla), Charles Grant, January 20, 1855; ^ledary (Midway County),John W. McBean, January 6, 1857, succeeded by Gustave Kragenbuhl, August3, 1857; Greenwood, Alexander H. Redfield, September 29, 1859, succeeded byWalter A. Burleigh, June 28, 1861; Fort Pierre, Edward G. Atkinson, September7, 1855; Niobrara, Bonneville G. Shelley, March 10, 1857; Ponca Agency, J. ShawGregory, March 14, i86o, succeeded by John B. Hotifman, July 31, 1861; Ver-milion, Hugh Compton, March 25, 1855, succeeded by Samuel Mulholland, April17, i860; Yankton, Downer T. Bramble, April 17, i860; Elk Point, Eli B. Wixon^July 9 i860; Fort Abercrombie, Jesse M. Stone, August 9, i860; Bon Homme,Aloses Herrick, October 2, 1861, succeeded by Richard M. Johnson, December17, 1862; Fort Randall, John B. S. Todd, January 18, 1857, succeeded by JesseWherry, Septem
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