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Identifier: blackhillsorlast00tallrich (find matches)
Title: The Black Hills, or, The last hunting ground of the Dakotahs : a complete history of the Black Hills of Dakota, from their first invasion in 1874 to the present time, comprising a comprehensive account of how they lost them : of numerous adventures of the early settlers : their heroic struggles for supremacy against the hostile Dakotah Tribes, and their final victory : the opening of the country to white settlement, and it subsequent development
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Tallent, Annie D
Subjects: Dakota Indians Black Hills (S.D. and Wyo.) -- History
Publisher: St. Louis, : Nixon-Jones Print. Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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as game to thelast, it being found that Van Luvins shot had broken bothof his legs and one of his arms. Rev. Smith was found lying where he fell, with armsfolded across his breast, his Bible and prayer-book restingon his bosom. He was not scalped or otherwise mutilated :per<;hance the savages surmised and respected his calling.He died in the harness, doing his Masters work. His grave, in the cemetery on one of the hills overlookingDeadwood on the south, is marked by a life-sized figurestanding on a square pedestal which bears the inscription.It is cut from native red sandstone and was erected inOctober, 1891, by his Black Hills Friends. The first gold produced from quartz by process ofmachinery in the Black Hills, was extracted from oremined from the Chief of the Hills, situated about one mileabove the mouth of Black Tail. In August, 1876, Gardner & Co. and I. Chase pur-chased from the original locators, California Joe and JackHunter, a one-half interest in the mine and at once
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COL JAMES M. WOODS. i LAST HUNTING GROUND OF THE DAKOTAHS. 277 commenced the construction of a home-made wooden Arastranear the mine for crushing the ore. In the clean-up fromthe first run made by this crude machine, was found a good-sized nugget, which, in commercial vaUie, was worth about115.00. The clean-up was made in early part of September,1876. The first plant for the manufacture of the popular bev-erage (beer) in the Black Hills, was established by L.S. Parkhurst & Co., temporarily at Custer, afterwardpermanently in Deadwood, in June, 1876. It was in July, 1876, that Jack Langrishe, the idol ofthe early Western mining camps, blazed the way and estab-lished the first theater for the legitimate in the BlackHills. The Langrishe Troupe, which included Mrs. Lan-grishe and two other ladies, with a wagon load of stageaccessories and an extensive repertory, arrived in Dead-wood on or about July 10th, 1876, and as there was nobuilding in the embryo city suitable for the purpose,imm

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