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8 unusual facts about Yankton


Moses K. Armstrong

Armstrong later moved to Yankton, then a small Native American village, in Dakota Territory, when Minnesota Territory was admitted as a State.

Riverfront Broadcasting LLC

Riverfront Broadcasting LLC is a privately held company in Yankton, South Dakota, United States.

The Ultimate Fighter 3

Noah Inhofer decides to quit the show and return to Yankton, South Dakota after receiving a letter informing him that his girlfriend back home believes he has cheated on her.

Yankton Sioux Tribe

The Yankton Sioux Tribe of South Dakota is a federally recognized tribe of Yankton Western Dakota people, located in South Dakota.

Yankton, South Dakota

Due to the urging of The Reverend Joseph Ward of Yankton, the General Association of Congregational Churches in Dakota Territory voted in May 1881 to establish “Pilgrim College” in Yankton, which was to be the first private institution of higher learning in Dakota.

Previous authors include former United States poet laureate Ted Kooser, American Book Award winner Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, David Lee, and William Kloefkorn, among others.

Lyle Alzado, NFL player, played college football at Yankton College

The Reverend Joseph Ward, born in Perry Center, N.Y., educator and founder of Yankton College; his statue is in Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capitol.


Battle of Dead Buffalo Lake

The Battle of Dead Buffalo Lake was a skirmish in July 1863 in Dakota Territory between United States army forces and Santee, Yankton, Yanktonai and Teton Sioux.

Dr. Robert Hohf House

Later in his life he served on the Board of Trustees for Yankton College in his birth town of Yankton, South Dakota.

Mike Obermueller

Between college and law school, he worked as Director of Campus Dining Services for Aramark Corporation at Mount Marty College in Yankton, South Dakota.

Nehemiah G. Ordway

On June 2, 1883, Ordway successfully moved the capital of Dakota Territory from Yankton to Bismarck with the assistance of Alexander McKenzie, an agent for the Northern Pacific Railway.

Robert H. Warren

He graduated from Yankton High School in 1934, attended Yankton College for two years, and then attended the United States Military Academy, graduating in 1940.

United States Federal Witness Protection Program

Grand Theft Auto V (2013 video game) one of the protagonists Michael De Santa (formerly Townley) has been in Witness Protection since 2004 after a failed bank heist nine years prior to the game's events in North Yankton which left two of his accomplices dead and the other missing.

Wilmot Brookings

Brookings made it safely to Yankton, but his wet legs had suffered such severe frostbite they both needed to be amputated.

WNAX

WNAX-FM, a radio station (104.1 FM) licensed to Yankton, South Dakota, United States


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