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SOUTH DAKOTA
beginning chiefly settled by bonanza farmers, captains of industry, who came with large means, buying great areas of land and farming upon extensive lines. They and their camp followers were adventurous men whose traditions were entirely at variance with those of the homesteaders of the South, and the result was constant friction between the two elements. The progress of time, and new immigration to the western portion of North Dakota, has materially modified conditions there.