Our first crossing of an Alkali Valley.

Blasting ice with dynamite from in front of steamer on the ways.

Part of Main Street during celebration, Sept. 5, 1883. Bismarck, D.T.

Bird's-eye view of Bismarck, D.T.

View of a large public building.

The Grand Central Hotel at Hope, D.T. [Dakota Territory], the end of the Manatoba [Manitoba] west branch in August 1882. About 70 miles from Larimore south-west.

Episcopal mission, Yankton Agency, D.T.

Sitting Bull and his favorite squaw, with officers and their ladies

Sioux Falls showing American flag flying over street, building identified as Cataract House.

Issuing supply.

Issuing rations. (Showing an Indian with a pipe in his hand in the foreground.)

Landing of the Villard and Rufus Hatch party at Bismarck, D.T. [Dakota Territory], Sept. 5/83.

At Vermillion, Dakota. Old channel of Mo. [Missouri] River and Nebraska in the distance.

At Vemillion Nebraska in the distance also the Mo. [Missouri] River. Vermillion runs between the two houses.

At Vermillion, Dakota. View of Mo. [Missouri] River and the Vermillion.

In the park at Vermillion, Dakota.

At Vermille [Vermillion], Dakota. Old town site.

G.A.R. [Grand Army of the Republic] reunion at Yankton, Sept. 9-11, 1884.

Distant view, Fort Lincoln. [Showing a buffalo skull on the prairie in foreground.]

Sioux Falls.

Deadwood City, in Whitewood Gulch.

View of a business block with a druggist and a hardware store.

Sheriff of Billings Co.

Central City, South Dakota.

Ft. McHenry, Baltimore, Inspiration Scene of the Star Spangled Banner.

Fort McHenry.

Fort McHenry.

Ft. McHenry, Baltimore, Inspiration Scene of the Star Spangled Banner.

Locust Point Depot and Bremen Steamer. Locust Point, Balto.

Panoramic view of the city, N. from Federal Hill Park.