CSPAN3 Fort Dakota November 5, 2017
Companies, one from dubuque, iowa, and one from minnesota both set their sights on the sioux river falls is a town site and interestingly, both arrived within a few weeks of each other. There was speculation. They claimed land. Plotted off into lots and stuff and waited for settlers headed west to, and by lots in the town. 1857, and really in the 1850s, they got along well with the indians who happened by their on the way to places. And by 1860, there were 42 People Living in sioux falls. In the summer of 1862, there was some conflict with the sioux indians and what was called the sioux uprisi...