1872 Proclamation from Dakota Governor Edwin S. McCook warning against entering the Black Hills, part of Indian Reservation.

Minutes from a miners' meeting held for the purpose of forming a district and making laws at Bear Gulch, February 1876.

Sentence handed down to Charles W. Hunt for murder by Lawrence County District Court, June 11, 1878.

Captain Jack Crawford poems "The Burial of Wild Bill" and "An Epitaph on Wild Bill" from The Poet Scout: Captain Jack Crawford, 1886.

Letter discussing the Ghost Dance movement on the Standing Rock Reservation from missionary Mary Collins, December 1890.

Letter of safe conduct for Wakuté from W. W. Fowler, missionary to Santee Sioux, June 9, 1879.

Letter from the Ladies of the "Dorcas Society" in Philadelphia to Presbyterian missionary Reverend John Poage Williamson inquiring about a need for clothing for the Indians, February 7, 1873.

Creation of the Yankton Land District by Abraham Lincoln on April 8, 1861.

Course requirements for men seeking a degree in agriculture found in the first Dakota Agriculture College catalog, 1885.

Course requirements for women seeking a degree in agriculture and domestic economy found in the first Dakota Agriculture College catalog, 1885.

Dakota Legislature Memorial to the United States House of Representatives for the opening of the Black Hills to white settlement, January 4, 1875.

Act from the 15th Dakota Territorial Legislature amending the punishment for murder within the territory, approved February 21, 1883.

Act from the 15th Dakota Territorial Legislature calling for the establishment of a new seat of government, removing the title from Yankton, 1883.

Members and officers of the Council of the First Legislature of the Territory of Dakota with information such as age, residence and occupation.

Governor Jayne's address to the Territory of Dakota Council and House of Representatives, 1862.

Message of the Squatter Governor of the Territory of Dakota, January 12, 1875. (A spoof Dakota Territory politics, unrelated to the squatter government that asked Congress for territorial status in the late 1850s.)