Editing Ziebach County, South Dakota (section)

==History==
A county named Ziebach was created in [[Dakota Territory]] in 1877. However, after [[South Dakota]] became a state, this county was dissolved in 1898 and its areas absorbed by [[Pennington County, South Dakota|Pennington]] and [[Stanley County, South Dakota|Stanley]] counties. The present Ziebach County was created by the SD Legislature on February 1, 1911, and was fully organized by April 22.<ref>[https://publications.newberry.org/ahcbp/documents/DAKs_Individual_County_Chronologies.htm History of SD Counties/Ziebach (accessed 9 February 2019)]</ref> The 1911 Ziebach County encompassed parts of the former counties of Schnasse, [[Armstrong County, South Dakota|Armstrong]] and Sterling, which were the last three extinct counties of South Dakota to cease to exist. It was named for [[Frank M. Ziebach]], a political figure in the Dakota Territory during the territorial period from 1861 to 1889. Previously the area had been used by trappers and in 1907 part was briefly a reservation for [[Ute people|Ute]] Indians displaced from [[Utah]] and [[Wyoming]]. Early in the 20th Century cattle were raised in substantial numbers, but when the railroad bypassed the area this industry declined. Limited homesteading also occurred on the more fertile lands.<ref>{{Cite book|publisher=Ziebach County Historical Society|title=South Dakota's Ziebach County, History of the Prairie|location=Dupree SD|access-date=November 11, 2012|year=1982|url=http://files.usgwarchives.net/sd/ziebach/history/part1.txt}}</ref>