James Bordeaux Biography, Charles Mix County, SD

	This biography is taken from the "Standard Atlas of Charles Mix 
	County" (1906),published by Geo. A. Ogle & Co. Page 53

	Transcribed by Joy Fisher, sdgenweb@yahoo.com and may be copied for 
	non-profit purposes. All other rights reserved.

James Bordeaux, a Frenchman, filed on the present site of Wheeler, in 1868,
and moved onto the place a few months later. His place became well known 
throughout the territory as Bordeaux's Ranch. He engaged in ranching and other 
lines of business incident to the steamboat traffic of those days, the latter 
being of no small importance since the Whetstone Agency was located across the 
river where a considerable number of soldiers were stationed. He remained there 
until 1876 when he sold out to N. B. Reynolds and removed to the Spotted Tail 
tribe, and later to the Rosebud reservation. Louis Bordeaux was his mixed blood
son. One of his daughters became the wife of Fred Barbier, and now resides on
Pease creek east of Geddes.