The Dakota Chief (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
954 issues from 1893 to 1913, published in Gann Valley, South Dakota, digitised for Chronicling America.
Buffalo County, South Dakota, was one of the first counties organized in Dakota Territory. It originally covered more than 5,000 square miles, with the Missouri River as the western border, Canada to the north, and the eastern edge along North Dakota and the western border of Minnesota. Once settlement began, smaller counties were created for ease of governmental management.
Present-day Buffalo County is located in central South Dakota, between Chamberlain and Miller. A large portion of the county is comprised of the Crow Creek Reservation. The local Native Americans are primarily descendants of the Arikara Tribe out of North Dakota who are enrolled with the Mandan and Hidatsa there. Ancient tribal villages from 1200-1350 CE have been preserved as national landmarks in areas of Buffalo County.
The town of Gann Valley is the county seat. It was founded in January 1885, when A. L. Spencer donated thirty acres of land and Herst C. Gann donated the courthouse building (the town is named after Gann). It is considered the smallest unincorporated county seat in the United States.
In 1888, Morton Alexander and J. V. Drips started publishing the Dakota Chief in Gann Valley. As South Dakota became a state in 1889, the five-column, eight-page paper came out each Thursday. The issues contained local news columns, projected railroad service updates, small want ads, serialized fiction, patent medicine ads, and legal notices. A subscription cost $1.50 per year.
The Chief carried a…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Gann Valley, South Dakota, United States
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Chronicling America
- Licence or status
- None stated by the archive
- Rights
- The Library of Congress believes that the newspapers in Chronicling America are in the public domain or have no known copyright restrictions. Newspapers published in the United States more than 95 years ago are in the public domain in their entirety.
- Credit
- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities
- Who can read it
- Teens profiles and older (placed by Invisible Network from what the archive says; archives give no ratings)
- Archive
- Library of Congress