Dakota Territory

noun

1. a territory in the N central U.S., from 1861 to 1868 comprising present-day North Dakota and South Dakota, and parts of Montana and Wyoming.

Example Sentences

Scandinavian farmers—struggling to make a living in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and the Dakota Territory—were often regarded with condescension by the New England cultural elites who appeared to dominate society in the northern part of the expanding nation.

From Slate

Before statehood in 1889, the Dakota territory had the country’s biggest increase in divorces — 6,691 percent — between 1882 and 1886.

From Washington Post

Then in 2004, he created his magnum opus, “Deadwood,” a drama set in the Dakota territory in the 1870s, a merciless era of American frontier expansion.

From New York Times

He had also entertained them with stories of his hunting adventures in the Dakota Territory and read adventure and nature books to them.

From Literature

As a former deputy sheriff in the wild Badlands of the Dakota Territory, Roosevelt, however, believed that killing Julio was justified.

From Literature