*** Territory of Dakota, 1861 – 1889

In July 1888, Baum and his wife moved to Aberdeen, Dakota Territory, where he opened a store, " Baum's Bazaar ".

Goodale was a young European-American teacher from Massachusetts and a reformer, who was appointed as the US superintendent of Native American education for the reservations in the Dakota Territory.

North Dakota was created from the northern portion of the Dakota Territory and admitted to the Union on November 2, 1889, simultaneously with South Dakota.

" Leaving the convention with his idealism disillusioned by party politics, Roosevelt said he had no further aspiration but to retire to his ranch in the Badlands of the Dakota Territory, which he had purchased the previous year while on a buffalo hunting expedition.

* January 12 – Blizzards ( see: Schoolhouse Blizzard ) hit Dakota Territory, the states of Montana, Minnesota, Nebraska, Kansas, and Texas, leaving 235 dead, many of whom are children on their way home from school.

* May 28 – Montana is organized as a United States territory out of parts of Washington Territory and Dakota Territory, and is signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln.

* George Catlin ends his 6-year tour of 50 tribes in the Dakota Territory.

* George Catlin starts to live among the Sioux in the Dakota Territory.

In 1881 Yerkes traveled to Fargo in the Dakota Territory in order to obtain a divorce from his wife of over twenty-two years.

* Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House on the Prairie series describes her father and family claiming a homestead in Kansas, and later Dakota Territory.

A series of short " wars " followed, and in 1862 – 1864, as refugees from the " Dakota War of 1862 " in Minnesota fled west to their allies in Montana and Dakota Territory.

Gen. Alfred Terry's column, including twelve companies ( A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, K, L, and M ) of the 7th Cavalry under Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer's immediate command, Companies C and G of the 17th U. S. Infantry, and the Gatling gun detachment of the 20th Infantry departed westward from Fort Abraham Lincoln in the Dakota Territory on May 17.

* Dakota Territory was organized in 1861 from the northern part of Indian Country and Minnesota Territory.

** Present day states of Montana and Wyoming were also part of Dakota Territory

* John A. Burbank ( 1827 – 1905 ), American businessman and fourth Governor of Dakota Territory.

* Beresford, South Dakota, formerly Paris, Dakota Territory

Named for the leader of each group ( the Schmiedeleut, Dariusleut, and Lehrerleut, leut being based on the German word for people ), they settled initially in the Dakota Territory ; later, Dariusleut colonies were established in central Montana.

The raiding party crossed the border into Manitoba at Pembina, Dakota Territory and took posession of the Hudson's Bay Company trading post on the Canada side.

The most beautiful bed of pansies I've seen was in a South Dakota yard on a sizzling day.

* 1990 – Sue, the largest and most complete Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton found to date, was discovered by Sue Hendrickson in South Dakota.

The success of the ensemble was emulated by other regional conductors, and a rich tradition of a cappella choral music was born in the region at colleges like Concordia College ( Moorhead, Minnesota ), Augustana College ( Rock Island, Illinois ), Wartburg College ( Waverly, Iowa ), Luther College ( Decorah, Iowa ), Gustavus Adolphus College ( St. Peter, Minnesota ), Augustana College ( Sioux Falls, South Dakota ), and Augsburg College ( Minneapolis, Minnesota ).

The sites were Moscow for the USSR and Grand Forks Air Force Base, North Dakota, since its Safeguard facility was already under construction, for the US.

Originally, it was a summer program for disadvantaged youth, although it has grown into an AmeriCorps-sponsored non-profit organization with six regional offices that serve Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, and North and South Dakota.

Safeguard ABM facility was located in North Dakota and was operational from 1975 – 1976.

Dean Ormsby Torrence ( born Los Angeles, California March 10, 1940 ), is the son of Natalie Ormsby Torrence ( born April 10, 1911 in California ; died August 10, 2008 in Los Angeles, California ) and Maurice Dean Torrence ( born December 5, 1907 in South Dakota ; died November 16, 1997 in Los Angeles, California ), a graduate of Stanford University, who was a sales manager at the Wilshire Oil Company.

Kathleen Soliah was born in Fargo, North Dakota while her family were living Barnesville, Minnesota.

Everything west from North Dakota to the Pacific was unknown, except that the Rocky Mountains existed, that the upper Missouri seemed to flow from that direction and that on the other side of the Rockies the large Columbia River entered the Pacific.

While Baum was in South Dakota, he sang in a quartet that included a man who would become one of the first Populist ( People's Party ) Senators in the U. S., James Kyle.

Lee was born Norma Deloris Egstrom in Jamestown, North Dakota, the seventh of eight children of Marvin Olof Egstrom, a station agent for the Midland Continental Railroad, and his wife Selma Amelia ( Anderson ) Egstrom.

She returned to North Dakota for a tonsillectomy, and was noticed by hotel owner Frank Beringin while working at the Doll House in Palm Springs, California.

Wimbledon, North Dakota has a St. Boniface Catholic Church that was established in 1886 and is still an active parish.

But Pennsylvania was Roosevelt's only eastern state ; in the Midwest, he carried Michigan, Minnesota and South Dakota ; in the West, California and Washington ; he did not win any southern states.

When they returned to The Dakota, their home in New York City, Lennon was shot dead by Mark David Chapman, a deranged fan who had been stalking Lennon for two months.

Aerostar International, Inc. of Sioux Falls, South Dakota was North America's largest balloon manufacturer and a close second in world manufacturing before ceasing to build balloons in January 2007.

Ernest Orlando Lawrence was born in Canton, South Dakota.

His parents, Carl Gustavus and Gunda ( née Jacobson ) Lawrence, were both the offspring of Norwegian immigrants who had met while teaching at the high school in Canton, South Dakota, where his father was also the superintendent of schools.

Lane wrote an immensely popular book detailing the history of American needlework ( with a strong libertarian undercurrent ) for Woman's Day and edited and published On The Way Home, providing an autobiographical setting around her mother's original 1894 diary of their six week journey from South Dakota to Missouri.

Dakota Territory was the setting for the syndicated western television series, Man Without a Gun, starring Rex Reason as newspaper editor Adam McLean and Mort Mills as Marshal Frank Tillman.

* Dakota City, the fictional setting of Milestone Media's Milestone Comics Universe

Testimony given by Senators George McGovern ( D-South Dakota ) and Mark O. Hatfield ( R-Oregon ) on the desirability of Senate Resolution 376 ; differences in intention and likely consequences of Administration policy and S. 376, including constitutionality of the two approaches ; relative merits of proposal by Sen. John Sherman Cooper ( R-Ky ) to make a firm commitment of withdrawal but without setting a definite date.

This is only a small fraction of all locales setting record low temperatures: Hundreds of towns and cities from North Dakota to New Jersey to Mississippi broke records, and the vast majority of the records set on " Cold Sunday " still stand.

Jance was born in Watertown, South Dakota and raised in Bisbee, Arizona ( the setting for her Joanna Brady series of novels ).