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 uprising by some started in august of 1862. And the territorial governor ordered that the Big Sioux River valley be evacuated. And about the 27th of august, 1862, all the people who lived here were evacuated and abandoned the site of the falls. The site of sioux falls remained abandoned until may of 1865 when the u. S. Army located a fort here on the site of the falls. The fort at sioux falls was called
Is the famous falls on the Big Sioux River from which the city takes its name. Right now we are on one of the main thoroughfares of sioux falls, south dakota. I lost some of the older buildings of sioux falls where you get a good feel for what would be considered the main street of sioux falls. This is part of the sculpture walk in downtown sioux falls. To the left is the federal courthouse. You can see that it is built out of this pink sioux falls quartz, which is on the reasons the sellers chose this because it is an plentiful supplies. That would be downtown sioux falls, or is that representative of historical sioux falls . John historical sioux falls. Downtown is coming back. For a while downtown moved out to the west side where the malls where. There has been a big resurgence in downtown sioux falls, like a lot of downtown in many cities across the country. To break down the population are the Ethnic Diversity here as far as numbers are concerned. John well, let me give you a fact
Dakota for over 100 years to my new book from warm center to ragged and takes its title from mister got Scott Fitzgerald who is the author of probably most famously of the great gatsby and if you remember your gatsby from back in high school or college, you remember that nick karoly was from minnesota. Nick karoly went off to war, this would have been world war i and when he came back, he decided that he thought it would be sort of doll to move back to minnesota. Which he saw as the ragged edge of the universe. And he decided to move to new york and he got mixed up in the roaring 20s. On long island with gatsby and all that cast of characters from his book. But in the end, when he sees what happens to many of these characters, he begins to see the old midwest where he came from as the warm center of the world. So that contract is what i tried to draw in my new book, from warm center to ragged edge. In the decades after the civil war, the midwest was seen by many commentators as the pac
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Two rival companies, one from dubuque, iowa, and one from st. Paul, minnesota, both set their sights on the sioux river falls is a town site and interestingly, both companies arrived within a few weeks of each other. There was speculation. They claimed land. They plotted off into lots and stuff and waited for settlers headed west to, and by lots in the town. That started in 1857, and really in the 1850s, they got along well with the indians who happened by here on their way to other 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. What was called the sioux uprising by some started in august of 1862. And the territorial governor ordered that the Big Sioux River valley be evacuated. And about the 27th of august, 1862, all the people who lived here were evacuated and abandoned the site of the falls. The site of sioux falls remained abandoned until may of 1865 when the u. S. Army located a fort here on t