Amiable Gallineau 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.

Amiable Gallineau came into this part of the country in the ‘40s, and 
roved more or less up and down the river. Joe Ellis describes him as "a 
fine pleasant fellow when sober, but a tough character and anything but 
amiable when under the influence of liquor." He had settled near 
Papineau’s Spring but later sold his rights to Gen. Chas. T. Campbell 
and went into the wood business on Pease "island," where he got into a 
quarrel when drunk with a Frenchman by the name of Boquelle the partner 
of John M. Cook in the wood business and, as our Joe says, "shot his 
head off with a shot gun." This crime occurred in the early 70’s for 
which Gallineau was tried at Yankton, but was acquitted. His wife was a 
Sioux Indian. He later moved on up the river and finally died at the 
Spotted Tail Agency. In this connection it may be well to recall old 
John Gallineau who also was here some years until killed by one Dupre.