Spink County

by Mary Lou Schwartz, Alan L. Evans, Spink County Historical Society

Book Overview

The area that now encompasses Spink County was virgin prairie grassland 140 years ago, inhabited by Native American Sioux who survived by hunting the millions of roaming buffalo. The land was surveyed a few years after the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876 in accordance with the Land Ordinance of 1785 and the Homestead Act of 1862. Within 25 years, the land was completely covered with farms, ranches, and towns and connected to the rest of the United...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0738593524
• ISBN13: 9780738593524
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.6" x 9.3"