Up until May 12, 1857, there was not a “pale face” known to be living in what is now Yankton County, or west of the Vermillion River. Lyman must therefore be credited with the title of the first white settler, because he continued to reside here with his Indian family until he was carried farther west by the Black Hills wave of emigration in 1876.
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