Emmons County history : compiled for the bicentennial, 1976

• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: North Dakota State Library 2014
• Subjects: Alta; Bakker; Canada; Eureka; Homestead; Keller; North Pole; Regina; Williamsport
• Online Access: http://cdm16921.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/ndsl-books/id/13321

THE EARLY SETTLER Reasons For Settling Before the Civil War, pioneers in emigrant wagons traveling through the great central prairies and plains on their way west, did not settle in Dakota because of the many disadvantages. It was a semi-arid country with very little timber for building materials, t...