. North Dakota history and people; outlines of American history. at Fargo, and named twenty-two delegates to go to Washington tolabor for ihe division of Dakota. They chartered a Pidlman car and went ina body. They gathered and published statistics and were making good head-way for the division of Dakota, when a delegation came from the southern partof the state with the Sioux Falls Constitution demanding the admission ofSouth Dakota, relegating the governor and territorial officers to the northern partof the territory, but denying them a share in the name which North Dakota wheatfields had al
. North Dakota history and people; outlines of American history. at Fargo, and named twenty-two delegates to go to Washington tolabor for ihe division of Dakota. They chartered a Pidlman car and went ina body. They gathered and published statistics and were making good head-way for the division of Dakota, when a delegation came from the southern partof the state with the Sioux Falls Constitution demanding the admission ofSouth Dakota, relegating the governor and territorial officers to the northern partof the territory, but denying them a share in the name which North Dakota wheatfields had already made famous. They antagonized the division of Dakotaunless it carried with it the admission of South Dakota as the State of failed, and the North Dakota delegation went home declaring that thereshould be no division until both could come in as states, and that when they didcome in North Dakota should be named first in the bill. And so it was. Fromthat time on, for some time, the Bismarck Tribune carried the words NorthDakota in its date op Pi CHAPTER XXXIXAMIXG XORTH DAKOTA COUXTIES The Legislature of 1873 divided Pembina and Buffalo counties, and namedthe several counties in Xorth Dakota largely in honor of the old settlers. Pem-bina, the original, was so called by reason of the highbush cranberries growingon the Pembina mountains. Enos Stutsman was representative from Pembina inthe Legislature, and, upon going to Yankton, which was then the capital of Da-kota, spent a night at the home of Morgan T. Rich, the first settler at Wahpeton,and they then agreed upon the principal names. Billings—For Hon. Frederick Billings, president of the Xorthern Pacific Rail-road Company, holding extensive landed interests in Burleigh and other westerncounties in North Dakota. Bottineau—For Pierre Bottineau, one of the old-time voyageurs, born inXorth Dakota where he spent over eighty years of his life. Bowman—For Hon. E. ^L Bowman, a member of the Legislature of 1
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