File:Sol Star, Mayor of Deadwood.jpg

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

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
nts,and the quality of trade along the different lines of trafhc. The bar of Deadwood, numbering about eighty, is com-posed of some of the ablest and shrewdest lawyers in theWide West, where legal acumen is the almost universal ruleand not the exception, among whom are such eminent juristsas Hons. Granville G. Bennett and Gideon C. Moody, whohave both balanced to a nicety the scales of justice fromthe Black Hills bench, or eloquently pleaded for even-handed justice at the Black Hills bar, ever since the firstestablishment of law in 1877, and who have been intimatelyidentified with its subsequent history. Judge Bennett came to Deadwood from Yankton, underappointment by President Hayes to establish regularcourts in the Black Hills, and assume jurisdiction thereof,in April, 1877. He occupied the bench of the First Cir-cuit of the Territorial District Court, of which the BlackHills then formed a part, until September, 1878, when heresigned to accept the nomination as representative of the
Text Appearing After Image:
SOL. STAU, Deadwoodjs Popular Major, LAST I1UXTINC4 GROUND OF THE DAKOTAIIS. 503 Black Hills to the United States Congress, to which posi-tion he was elected. At the close of the session, JudofeBennett returned to Deadwood, where he has since devotedhimself to the practice of his profession, an honored mem-ber of the Deadwood bar. Judge G. C. Moody, then engaged in the practice of lawin Yankton, Dakota Territory, was appointed to the benchmade vacant by the resignation of Judge Bennett, byPresident Hayes, in October, 1878, which he occupied forhis full term of four years. In 1885 he was chosen UnitedStates Senator by the Legislature of the provisional StateGovernment of South Dakota, but, while himself and col-league, Alonzo J. Edgerton, were accorded especial con-sideration in Congress, they were not admitted to the fullprivileges of members of that body. On October 17th,1889, he and R. F. Pettigrew were chosen United StatesSenators by the iirst State Legislature of South Dakota,whic

Note About Images