Narcisse Drappeau Biography, Charles Mix Co., SD

	This biography appears in the 1906 Standard Atlas of Charles Mix 
	County, page 54.

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Narcisse Drappeau, a French Canadian, had come to this county as a fur trader 
in 1854 or 1855. He is described as a man of small stature, agreeable, easy 
going, and of moderate intellectual and educational qualities, always well 
liked by those with whom he came into contact. He first settled on Little 
Cedar island but later moved to the mainland at the mouth of Platte creek. 
He was engaged in the wood business with the river steamers and in the 80's 
and 90's sold wood to the settlers on the prairie. Drappeau, Felicia Fallas, 
and Pierre Peliscien all lived within a reach of a mile near the mouth of 
Platte creek. Drappeau secured title to his land but later lost it in defending 
his boys who were charged with horse stealing. Ten or twelve years ago he removed 
to the Rosebud reservation where he now resides. His wife was a Sioux, and Jack 
Sully and John Kinkaid were at one time his sons-in-law.