The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-05-25
YANKTON PAGEANT TO
Be GREAT SPECTACLE
Early History Will Be Depicted
In Three Episodes and IL
Distinct Scenes.

Yankton, S.. D., May ~20.-lncidents
in the early history of southeastern
South Dakota will be reproduced IN
Joseph Mills Hanson's The Pageant
of Yankton," which will be presented
in the Garden Terrace open air theatef
at Yankton on the afternoons of June
IA, Is aad 16, nder the auspices OIL
Yankton college.
More than 200 persons Will take pafl
in the pageant. Mr.. Hanson, pronln,
ent South Dakota author and poet, VIII
be in active charge of the spectacle, he
will be assisted by officers of lankl
college and members of the CONNER
cial club at Yankton.
THE Pageant of Yankton' is diVld-
ed into three episodes and II scenes,
Part of the dialog is in verse. All OF
it is based on historical facts, which
We're obtained by Mr.. Hanson.
The pageant will open with the ar
rival of the "Yankton" Indians at the
foot of the bluffs of the Missouri river
at Yankton. These Indians were urlV-
en- from their haunts in Iowa anc MIN
nesota and settled at ankton Whlle
wandering over the prairies in search
of a nome. i.
Episode two will show the coming of
the first white man to South Dakot
He was Pierre Durion. He came to
Yankton in 1880. Scene two of tins
eplSOuG VIII SHOW l1ie diilSci VI AiS
Lewis and Clark expedition at Yank-
ton on August 80. 1904. Scene three
will be a reproduction of the founding
of the first trading post at 4ankton by
Frost, Todd e. Co.
TIL negotiation of the treaty for the
cession of the Yankton lands Will be
shown. These lands embraced all the
southeastern part of the present state
of South Dakota Scene five will show
the departure of the Yankton ndian
from the Yankton WnS This was
on July 10. 1859.
The third episode takes up the arri-
val of the first governor Of Dakota
territory, DR.. William Jayne, and he
settlement at Yankton Of his party.
Yankton, the Mother of the Dakotas,"
was the first territorial capital.
The next scene will show the indian
outbreak of 1862. The old Yankton
stockade will be shown filled with
refugee settlers and their families.
Relatives Of the men who were instru-
mental in driving off the Indians will
take parts in the scene.
Reproductions will be shown of the
coming of the first railroad in 1878,
the founding Of Sacred Heart hospital,
the founding OF Yankton college by DR..
Joseph Ward. and as a finale the "ul-
timate city"
Previous pageants which have been
given in this section have shown in
cidents from the history of the general
northwest. The Yanllton pageant will
deal entirely with the history of south
eastern South Dakota. 1t is expected
to compare favorably with such page
ants as The Land and Water Page
ont" which was given at Minneapolis
in 1911. and The Pageant of the
Prairies," which was held at Grand
Forks in 1914.
Editors of both of Yankton's daily
newspapers, leading business and pro-
fesslonal men. prominent college in
structors, high school eachers and
musicians will assist Mr.. Hanson in
staging the pageant. Rehearsals for
the spectacle have begun and plans to
care for large crowds at the three per-
formances are being perfected.