Strangers to Us All Lawyers and Poetry

Charles Edmund DeLand

(1854-1935)
South Dakota

Lawyer, poet, and historian

Charles DeLand has been identified as a poet and a lawyer by archivists at the South Dakota State Historical Society, Pierre, South Dakota. DeLand's papers, include literary manuscripts of both his prose writings and his poetry.

Writings

Charles Edmund DeLand, Annotated Statutes and Rules of Trial Practice and Appellate Procedure in South Dakota and North Dakota, embracing issues, trials, exceptions, bills of exception and statement of case, new trials, appeals and writs of error; in both civil and criminal cases, all the courts of both states; and appellate procedure; all fully annotated (Pierre, South Dakota: Carter Pub. Co., 1896)

____________________, Annotated Rules of Supreme Court in South Dakota and North Dakota (Pierre South Dakota: Carter Pub. Co., 1896)

____________________, Black Mount of Gold (Pierre, South Dakota: Hipple Printing Co., 1900)

____________________, Annotated General Incorporation Laws of South Dakota. Embracing judicial procedure for and against domestic and foreign corporations (Pierre, South Dakota: State Publishing Company, 1900)

____________________, Thoughts Afield, comprising papers, addresses, contributions, communications, etc. upon historical, political, legal, commercial and miscellaneous subjects (Pierre, South Dakota: Hipple Printing Co., 1911)

____________________, Tragedy of the White Medicine: A Story of Indian Mystery, Revenge, and Love (New York: Neale Pub. Co., 1913)

____________________, The Mis-Trials of Jesus (Boston: R.G. Badger, 1914) [online text]

____________________, The Psychic Trio, or, Nations Reconciled (Boston: Richard G. Badger, The Gorham Press, 1919) [online text]

____________________, Renewed from Without (Cedar Rapids, Iowa: The Torch Press, 1926)

____________________, The Sioux Wars: Minnesota Outbreak; Red Cloud and other wars of 1867; Little Big Horn; Wounded Knee (Pierre, South Dakota: Hipple Print. Co., 1930)

____________________, The Sioux wars; Minnesota outbreak; Red Cloud and other wars of 1867; Little Big Horn; Wounded Knee (Pierre, South Dakota: State Historical Society, 1930, 1934)(2 vols.)(South Dakota Historical Collections, Vol. 15 (1930) & Vol. 17 (1934)

____________________, Rambles in Realms; comprising essays, and current discussions, relating to life, countries, peoples, governments, and men, with some variants inmiscellaneous subjects (Pierre, South Dakota: Hipple Printing Co., 1934)

Writings: Articles

Charles Edmund Deland & Frederick T. Wilson, Old Fort Pierre and Its Neighbors ([Pierre, South Dakota]: South Dakota Historical Society, 1902)(1 South Dakota Historical Collections 257-379)(1902)

Charles Edmund Deland, The Aborigines of South Dakota. Part 1 ([Pierre, South Dakota]: South Dakota State Historical Society, 1906)(3 South Dakota Historical Collections 267-586)(1906)(editorial notes by Doane Robinson)

___________________, The Aborigines of South Dakota. Part 2, The Mandan Indians ([Pierre, South Dakota]: South Dakota State Historical Society, 1908)(4 South Dakota Historical Collections 273-730)(1908)

___________________, Basil Clement (Claymore): The Mountain Trappers ([Pierre, South Dakota]: South Dakota Historical Society, 1922)(11 South Dakota Historical Collections 243-389)(1922)

___________________, Michael R. Russell and some notes of his associations with William F. Cody ("Buffalo Bill")([Pierre, South Dakota]: South Dakota Historical Society, 1928)(14 South Dakota Historical Collections 252-306)(1928)

___________________, The Sioux Wars: Red Cloudw ars; Little Big Horn and other Battles of 1876; Wounded Knee ([Pierre, South Dakota]: South Dakota State Historical Society, 1934)(17 South Dakota Historical Collections 177-551)(1934)

Research Resources

Charles Edmund DeLand Papers
South Dakota State Historical Society
Pierre, South Dakota