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

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

Original Format

Sound recordings

Duration

1:14

Bit Rate/Frequency

128kbps

Decade

1970 1979

Physical Location

Bicentennial tape #1, Bicentennial stories 1-22

Comments

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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.