Merritt H. Day
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Merritt Horace Day, sometimes called Col. M.H. Day, was an early pioneer, rancher, mine owner, and legislator in the Dakota Territory. Merritt Day was a "pronounced advocate for the division of Dakota
Members of Day's militia instigated an attack on a Lakota settlement of approximately 100 tepees in an encampment below Stronghold Table in what is now Badlands National Park
Cheyenne River
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The Cheyenne River, also written Chyone, referring to the Cheyenne people who once lived there, is a tributary of the Missouri River in the U.S. states of Wyoming and South Dakota. It is approximately
Merritt H. Day
…culminated in the Wounded Knee massacre. By January 1891, following Wounded Knee, the militia under Day had expanded to some 200 men who "patrolled Cheyenne River as a screen for the Black Hills settlements." Day resigned his position as colonel of the militia in a telegram to Gov. Mellette on July 8, 1891…
Cheyenne River at the I-90 bridge crossing, near Wasta in Pennington County.