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  1. Aug 23, 2012 · The first tragic event was the Dakota War of 1862, which ended with the executions of 38 Dakota warriors, the largest mass execution in U.S. history. Following the uprising in September 1863, the military dispatched Gen. Alfred Sully up the Missouri River through Dakota Territory in pursuit of hostiles who had fled Minnesota.

  2. Dakota Territory was not directly involved in the American Civil War but did raise some troops to defend the settlements following the Dakota War of 1862 which triggered hostilities with the Sioux tribes of Dakota Territory. The Department of the Northwest sent expeditions into Dakota Territory in 1863, 1864 and 1865.

  3. Because Deadwood was an illegal town in Indian Territory, non-native civil authorities lacked the jurisdiction to prosecute McCall. McCall's trial was moved to a Dakota Territory court, where he was found guilty of murder and hanged. Beginning August 12, 1876, a smallpox epidemic swept through.

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  5. Apr 5, 2019 · Deadwood has a flashy reputation for criminality, particularly between about 1874-1884, but the territory around Yankton was ripe for criminal types from the end of the Civil War (1865) to...

  6. Jan 20, 2023 · On Aug. 1, 1876, Hickok had sat down to play poker at Nuttal & Mann’s Saloon No. 10 in Deadwood, Dakota Territory. When another chair became available, another man, visibly drunk, sat down ...

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  7. May 15, 2018 · The Past Comes Alive at Deadwood Museum. The Adams Museum tells the story of Wild Bill. The summer of 1876 was fateful for the Black Hills mining camp of Deadwood (in Dakota Territory, now South Dakota).

  8. Deadwood residents celebrate the United States’ centennial, paying no mind to the fact that the Dakota Territory would not become part of the United States until 1889.

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