Unknown County, SD History - Books .....Dedication, Foreward, And Abbreviations 1925 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/sd/sdfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com March 25, 2007, 9:45 am Book Title: Doane Robinson's Encyclopedia Of South Dakota DOANE ROBINSON'S Encyclopedia of South Dakota FIRST EDITION Published by the Author PIERRE 1925 COPYRIGHT BY DOANE ROBINSON. 1925 WILL A. BEACH PRINTING COMPANY PRINTERS AND BINDERS SIOUX FALLS DEDICATION South Dakota, my South Dakota, for half a century my homeland! I have loved you as a father loves his own; your abounding plains, your mighty rivers, your glorious mountains, and your purling brooks are all mine; the flowers bloom on the prairies and perfume the summer breezes for me; the spicy breath of your forests is for my benediction. From your infancy I have adored you. I was present when the territorial chrysalis was broken; it was my privilege to assist at the induction of the young State; all the way it has been my joy to serve you. With pride I have observed every step in your progress; with zeal I have sought to crown you with garlands more beautiful than those adorning another commonwealth; with fervor I have prayed that your future may be great, noble and beautiful. My South Dakota, as the end approaches, before my ashes are committed to the kindly protection of your clay, I am hoping with a mighty hope that I may in some way be helpful in bringing to you the good distinction of your high merit. To you, my South Dakota, I dedicate my humble work. DOANE ROBINSON. Foreword The desire to leave readily available to the people of South Dakota the information I have collected has prompted the preparation of this encyclopedia. In this I have necessarily gone beyond my special field and have adopted the work of other laborers in technical and scientific matters in which I have no special training. In those fields I have attempted only to include popular statements condensed from the more elaborate work of the scientists, not attempting the technicalities that would interest the sophisticated, but to give in a simple way the things thought to be of interest to the layman. The most perplexing problem has been to determine the limit to place upon personal sketches. I have included only those who have some special distinction, for it would be manifestly unfair to include one worthy citizen and exclude another of equal merit. Even of those who have rendered special service I have lacked space and information to include all. I am under special obligation to Mr. Javan B. Irvine, who has with exacting care checked the accuracy of every statement by the best available authority. Dr. C. C. O'Harra, Dr. Freeman Ward, Dr. Harry C. Severin and Prof. W. H. Over have given me much valued assistance. Only the test of actual use will prove the practical utility of the work. I hope to live to make any revision found necessary by this test. Pierre, May 1, 1925. ABBREVIATIONS Abbreviations in common use in South. Dakota, together -with special abbreviations used in this encyclopedia: Alt. Gannett's "Dictionary of Altitudes in the United States." Annapolis. U. S. Naval Academy. Audubon. "Audubon and his Journals." Scribner. b. born in. B., C. R. & N. Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern Railway. B. H. Black Hills. B. H. M. Black Hills Meridan. Biog. "Memorial and Biographical Record," Ogle. B. & M. Burlington and Missouri River Railway. Brackenridge, Henry M. "Brackenridge's Journal." (Early Western Travels, Vol. V.) Bradbury. "Bradbury's Travels." (Early Western Travels, Vol. V.) Brief. Hist. "Brief History of South Dakota." (Doane Robinson's School History.) Burlington. Burlington and Missouri River Railway. Cedar Rapids. Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern Railway. Chittenden. "History of the American Fur Trade of the Far West." C., M. & St. P. Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul Railway. C. & N. W. Chicago and Northwestern Railway. Code. South Dakota Revised Code of 1919. Coll. Collections, Historical (with name of State.) Coues. "History of Lewis and Clark's Expedition," by Elliot Coues. Coursey. "Literature of South Dakota," by O. W. Coursey. D. A. C. Dakota (Territorial) Agricultural College. Dakotan. "Monthly South Dakotan" (Magazine). D. T. Dakota Territory. Eth. Reports of the Bureau of American Ethnology. Const. Constitution of South Dakota. Ex. Bul. Bulletins of the South Dakota Experiment Station. Fur Trade. Chittenden's "History of the American Fur Trade of the Far West." Gannett. "The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States," by Henry Gannett. Geo. Bul. Bulletins of the South Dakota Geological and Natural History Survey. Geo. Circ. Circulars of the South Dakota Geological and Natural History Survey. G. N. Great Northern Railway. Great Northern. Great Northern Railway. Hist. "South Dakota Historical Collections." Hist. Minn. Folwell's "History of Minnesota." Hist. Minn. Co. Bailey's "History of Minnehaha County." Ind. Reports of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs. Kingsbury. "History of Dakota Territory," by Geo. W. Kingsbury. Larpenteur, "Forty Years a Fur Trader on the Upper Missouri," by Charles Larpentuer, edited by Elliott Coues. Laws. The session Laws of South Dakota. L. & C. Lewis and Clark. Lewis and Clark. "The Original Journals of Lewis and Clark," edited by Reuben Gold Thwaites. Ludlow. "Report of a Reconnaissance in the Black Hills of Dakota, made in the Summer of 1874," by William Ludlow. Maximilian. "Maximilian's Travels in North America," edited by Reuben Gold Thwaites. Milwaukee. Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway. Mines. Bulletins of the South Dakota School of Mines. Minneapolis. Minneapolis and St. Louis Railway. M. & St. L. Minneapolis and St. Louis Railway. n. footnote. N. N. I. S. Northern Normal and Industrial School, Aberdeen. Northwestern. Chicago and Northwestern Railway. Place Names. "Origin of Place Names in Nine Northwestern States," by W. H. Stennett. P. M. Principal Meridian. Robinson. "History of South Dakota," by Doane Robinson, 2 vols. 1904. St. Louis. Minneapolis and St. Louis Railway. S. D. South Dakota. S. D. (preceded by a number, thus "12, S. D.") South Dakota Supreme Court Reports. S. D. S. C. A. & M. A. South Dakota State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. S. L. Session Laws. Smithsonian. Reports of the Smithsonian Institution. Soo. St. Paul, Minneapolis and Sault Ste. Marie Railway. Steamboat. "Early Steamboat Navigation on the Upper Missouri," by H. M. Chittenden. So. Dak. South Dakota. Tallent. "The Black Hills, or the Last Hunting Ground of the Dakotas," by Annie D. Tallent. Ter. Territory. U. S. D. University of South Dakota. U. S. G. S. United States Geological Survey. West Point. U. S. Military Academy. Additional Comments: Extracted from: DOANE ROBINSON'S Encyclopedia of South Dakota FIRST EDITION Published by the Author PIERRE 1925 COPYRIGHT BY DOANE ROBINSON. 1925 WILL A. BEACH PRINTING COMPANY PRINTERS AND BINDERS SIOUX FALLS File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/sd/unknown/history/1925/doanerob/dedicati131gms.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/sdfiles/ File size: 7.9 Kb