Identifier: newdollaratlasof00rand (find matches)
Title: New dollar atlas of the United States and Dominion of Canada ..
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Rand McNally and Company
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Publisher: Chicago
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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Big Horn, on June 25,1876, in which the seventh IJnited States cavalry wasnearly annihilated. On that occasion the United States forces, numbering about 330men, were surrounded by nearly 5,000 Sioux, under a chief named Sitting Bull, whohad gathered around him warriors from several small tribes. Gen. Custer, a notedIndian fighter, and 261 officers and men, were slain in the engagement, and the enemysucceeded in escaping into British territory, but finding it difficult to get food there,they gave themselves up to the United States military authorities, during the earlypart of 1881. There are in the Territory 19,791 Indians. The amount of land held inreservations for them, is 24,156,800 acres, of which more than 10,000,000 is good land.Of this, only 3,769 acres are tilled. Population.—Census, of 1880: Males, 28,177; Females, 10,982; Native,27,638; Foreign, 11,521; White, 35,385; Colored, 3,774, including 1,765 Chinese, and1,663 Indians who have no tribal relations. lOO MAP OF MONTANA.
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1^ )- ,.*^«°^°*-\ ^ 101 TERRITORY OF WYOMING. TopOffVCipliy»—The surface is elevated and mountainous, the main chain ofthe Rocky mountains extending across the Territory from southeast to northwest andforming what is known as the divide. The principal ranges are the Wind River,Big Horn, Laramie, Bishop and Medicine Bow mountains. The Black Hills lie partlyin this Territory and partly in Dakota. The Big Horn, Tongue and Powder rivers flownorth and join the Yellowstone in Montana; the Green river drains the southwest, andthe Little Missouri the northeast; while the North Platte, rising in Colorado, receivesthe Medicine Bow, Laramie and Sweetwater rivers in Wyoming and enters Nebraskafrom the southeast, where there are some smaller streams of little importance. Themost interesting of the natural features of Wyoming, and those which have most at-tracted the attention of travelers, are found in the extreme northwest corner of theTerritory, in the section known as the Yellows

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