The forgotten story of the night Sitting Bull spent in jail and the art discovery that followed

The forgotten story of the night Sitting Bull spent in jail and the art discovery that followed

LA GRACE, S.D. — Charles Abbott Wilkins came to Dakota Territory in 1883 to seek a better future on the prairie, then opening to settlers during the bustling Great Dakota Boom. The 21-year-old native of Henniker, New Hampshire, traveled by steamboat to a stop on the Missouri River and settled in present-day Campbell County, South Dakota, where he bought land to grow wheat and oats and raise horses. Wilkins earned extra income as a justice of the…