Bicentennial Story #29-Young Mans Butte-Seat of Empire

Bicentennial Story #29-Young Mans Butte-Seat of Empire

Description of Young Mans Butte from an article in an eastern newspaper.

6/10/1975

3/8/1976

Father Louis Pfaller
Jack Hjort

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BS-029

Young Mans Butte, ND

Copyright Stark County Historical Society and Dickinson Museum Center

That Young Man's Butte near Richardton was a famous landmark in frontier days is shown by an article which appeared in an Eastern newspaper at the time of the driving of the Golden Spike on the Northern Pacific Railway. The Dickinson Press of September 15, 1863 reprinted this glowing prediction: "That the future seat of empire in the great Northwest is an acknowledged fact, and it is only a question of time when the Capital of the United States, yea, the source and residence of the world's power and wisdom will sit on the top of Young Man's Butte, or some other elevated pinnacle on the landscape of Dakota."

This is Bicentennial Story No.29, prepared by Father Louis Pfaller, for the Stark County Historical Society.

Dickinson Press, Sept. 15, 1883

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