The History of Badlands National Monument and the White River (Big) Badlands of South Dakota — John Shaqi
The History of Badlands National Monument and the White River (Big) Badlands of South DakotaMattison, Ray H.
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The History of Badlands National Monument and the White River (Big) Badlands of South Dakota
Mattison, Ray H.
Badlands National Park (S.D.) -- History
[4]Herbert S. Schell, History of South Dakota (Lincoln: University of
Nebraska Press, 1961), p. 16.
[5]Ibid., pp. 17-23.
[6]Ibid., pp. 24-36.
[7]Lt. G.K. Warren, Preliminary Report of Explorations in Nebraska and
Dakota in the Years 1855-’56-’57 (Washington: U.S. Government
Printing Office, 1875), p. 26; J.R. Macdonald, “The History and
Exploration of the Big Badlands of South Dakota,” Guide Book Fifth
Field Conference of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology in
Western South Dakota, ed. James D. Bump (Sponsored by the Museum of
Geology of the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid
City, August 29-September 1, 1951), p. 31.
[8]Hiram M. Chittenden, and Alfred T. Richardson, eds., Life, Letters
and Travels of Father Pierre-Jean De Smet. S.J., 1801-1873 (New
York: Francis P. Harper, 1905), vol. 2, pp. 622, 623.
[9]Charles L. Camp, ed., James Clyman American Frontiersman 1792-1881
(Cleveland: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1928), p. 24.
Note: Dale Morgan was of the opinion that the jornada which Clyman
describes was through country south of the White River, and that
Smith’s party by-passed almost entirely that portion of the South
Dakota Badlands now set apart as a national monument [Dale L.
Morgan, Jedediah Smith and the Opening of the West (Indianapolis:
The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., 1953), p. 386, f.n. 10]. Just a
year later, however, Morgan published new evidence found in the
Gibbs map to back up the opposite interpretation of Clyman’s
journals. He now believes that the Smith party followed the White
River exclusively, keeping to the north bank all the way to possibly
near the mouth of Willow Creek, located east and a little south from
the present town of Hot Springs, South Dakota. This means the party
would have at least seen, and perhaps passed through the present
Badlands National Monument. [Dale L. Morgan and Carl I. Wheat,
Jedediah Smith and his Maps of the American West (California
Historical Society, 1954), p. 49.]
[10]Reuben G. Thwaites, ed., Travels in the Interior of North America by
Maximilian, Prince of Wied (Cleveland: The A.H. Clark Company,
1906), vol. 3, p. 90.
[11]Chittenden and Richardson, op. cit., p. 624.
[12]Ibid., pp. 624, 625.
[13]Cleophas C. O’Harra, The White River Badlands (Rapid City: South
Dakota School of Mines, Bulletin No. 13, Department of Geology,
November 1920), pp. 123, 128.
[14]John Francis McDermott, ed., Journal of an Expedition to the
Mauvaises Terres and the Upper Missouri in 1850, Smithsonian
Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 147 (Washington:
U.S. Government Printing Office, 1952), p. 1.
[15]Macdonald, op. cit., p. 31; American Journal of Science, vol. 3, no.
7, 2d series, January 1847, pp. 248-250; O’Harra, op. cit., pp. 23,
24, 110-117, 161.
[16]McDermott, op. cit., p. 1.
[17]Ibid.
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