HISTORICAL GOLLECTIONS

ILLUSTRATED WITH MAPS AND ENGRAVINGS

COMPILED BY THE

STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY

VOLUME I

1902

1902

NEWS PRINTING CO.

ABERDEEN, S. D.

Copyrighted 1902, by Doane Robinson, Secretary, for the benefit of the State Historical Society.

CONTENTS

I. Letter of Transmittal.

II. Organic Act.

III. Membership Roll and Doings.

IV. Biographical and Analytical Sketch of William Max-
well Blackburn, DD., LL. D., by Thomas Lawrence Riggs.

V.. History of North and South Dakota, by Dr. William

Maxwell Blackburn, with copious editorial notes by Dr. De

Lorme W. Robinson.

VI. Radisson and Grossiliers' Travels in the West, with

comment and notes by Professor Robert F. Kerr.

VII. Official correspondence of the Leavenworth Expedi-
tion into South Dakota for the conquest of the Ree Indians in
1823, with extensive editorial notes by Doane Robinson.

VIII. Old Fort Pierre and Its Neighbors, by Major Wilson

of the U. S. army, with illuminating and critical notes by Hon.

Charles E. DeLand.

IX. Official correspondence relating to Fort Pierre.

X. Appendix: Treaties with Indians opening Dakota soil

to settlement.

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