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Title: New dollar atlas of the United States and Dominion of Canada ..
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Rand McNally and Company
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Publisher: Chicago
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dof New Ulm, depopulating whole counties, murdering the men, women and children byhundreds, and carrying off nearly 250 white captives. Gen. H. H. Sibley, formergovernor of the State, raised several hundred volunteers and marched to the front.The Indians gave battle, and were defeated at New Ulm, Fort Ridgely and BirchCoolie, and on September 23 they were completely subdued. Of the Indian warriors303 were condemned to death, but the sentences of many were commuted, and onDec. 21, 1862, thirty-eight of the most criminal were hanged at Mankato. Foreignimmigrants continue to pour in by thousands. The invigorating climate, the splendidagricultural capabilities of the State, and its accessibility to markets, unite to renderit most attractive to the best class of settlers. ^Population.—Census of 1880 : Males, 419,149; Females, 361,624; Native,513,097; Foreign, 267,676; White, 776,884; Colored, 3,889, including 24 Chinese, 1Japanese, and 2,300 Indians and Half-breeds. fi6 MAP OF MINNESOTA.
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TEREITORY OF DAKOTA. Topofjvaphy.—Dakota has an average extent nortii ana south of 450 miles;a breadth of 350 miles, with an area of 149,100 square miles, or 95,424,000 acres.There are still 27,550 Indians in the Territory, seven-eighths of the whole numberbeing Sioux. These are divided into numerous bands, and are mostly on reservationswest of the Missouri and north of the Nebraska frontier. The amount of land held bythem is 41,999,456 acres, of which over 5,000,000 acres is good farming land. Ordy10,500 acres is cultivated. The Territory forms a vast elevated plateau, crossed byseveral minor ranges of hills, which in the southwest almost deserve the name of mount-ains. The general elevation of the country is from 1,000 to 2,500 feet above the sea,and the highest peaks of the Black Hills aie nearly 7,000 feet above sea level. TheMissouri river crosses Dakota from the northwest to the southeast corner, and is navi-gable throughout the Territory. It receives the Yellowstone on the Mo

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