Bicentennial Story #17-Badlands remarkable
Title
Bicentennial Story #17-Badlands remarkable
Description
Description of the North Dakota badlands by one of General Alfred Sully's soldiers.
Date
5/23/1975
1/29/1976
Contributor
Father Louis Pfaller
Jack Hjort
Jack Hjort
Rights
This recording cannot be copied or reproduced without the written permission of the Dickinson Museum Center. This recording may be freely used for education uses, so long as it is not altered in any way. No commercial reproduction or distribution of this recording file is permitted without written permission of the Dickinson Museum Center.
Format
mp3
Medium
audio reel, analog, 1/4 inch polyester tape
Language
English
Identifier
BS-017
Spatial Coverage
Dakota Territory
Rights Holder
Copyright Stark County Historical Society and Dickinson Museum Center
Transcription
The Sully Expedition left the Heart River Corral on August 3, 1864.
That evening the force camped near present Gladstone and the next evening near present South Heart. Far ahead of the column at a safe distance rode 20 or 30 Sioux Indians, scouting for their people camped in the Badlands farther west.
On August 5 the column reached the rim of the Badlands and one of the soldiers noted in his diary: "...it is the most remarkable country on this continent and perhaps in the world. Many men who have traveled in and seen much of foreign countries say they never saw anything equal to it. . . ." No artist, he said, could capture on canvas what the great Artist, the God of Nature had created in the splendiferous Bad Lands.
This is Bicentennial Story No. 17, prepared by Father Louis Pfaller for the Stark County Historical Society.
Pfaller, Sully Expedition, 33
That evening the force camped near present Gladstone and the next evening near present South Heart. Far ahead of the column at a safe distance rode 20 or 30 Sioux Indians, scouting for their people camped in the Badlands farther west.
On August 5 the column reached the rim of the Badlands and one of the soldiers noted in his diary: "...it is the most remarkable country on this continent and perhaps in the world. Many men who have traveled in and seen much of foreign countries say they never saw anything equal to it. . . ." No artist, he said, could capture on canvas what the great Artist, the God of Nature had created in the splendiferous Bad Lands.
This is Bicentennial Story No. 17, prepared by Father Louis Pfaller for the Stark County Historical Society.
Pfaller, Sully Expedition, 33
Original Format
Sound recordings
Duration
1:14
Bit Rate/Frequency
128kbps
Decade
1970 1979
Physical Location
Bicentennial tape #1, Bicentennial stories 1-22
Collection
Citation
“Bicentennial Story #17-Badlands remarkable,” Southwestern North Dakota Digital Archive At the Dickinson Museum Center, accessed March 29, 2024, https://dmc.omeka.net/items/show/406.
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