Land of the Dacotahs Author:Bruce Nelson "Land of the Dacotahs covers a wide range of topics, including early explorations, the fur trade, river traffic, gold rushes, Indian Wars, the open-range cattle industry in North Dakota, selected phases of political history, the Nonpartisan League, and the Pick-Sloan project for developing the Missouri River Basin..." -- Herbert S. Schell, Misso... more »uri Valley Historical Review
"A significant commentary on the development of the Upper Missouri Valley which can be read with profit by anyone, in or out of the region, who desires to improve his understanding of a section of the country whose future may well be even more storied than its past." -- James C. Olson, Nebraska History
"This is not a history in the technical sense of the word. It does not cover the entire scope of events in the Dakotas and Montana; and yet it interprets and presents in a vivid way the significant peaks in the mountain range of regional history of the area..." -- Everett Dick, American Historical Review« less