The Quartzite Border: Surveying and Marking the North Dakota-South Dakota Boundary, 1891-1892
Along the rugged 360-mile border between North Dakota and South Dakota there once stood 720 quartzite markers, cut from the quarries near Sioux Falls and placed there in 1891 and 1892 by United States surveyor Charles H Bates and his crew. In "The Quartzite Border", Dr Gordon L Iseminger of the University of North Dakota recounts, for the first time, the intriguing story behind the surveying and marking of one of the nation's longest state borders.\ \ Based on the author's exhaustive research...
