How you fought to win the land;

Tell them of brave Custer’s band.

Tell them how you fought the Red Man,

How he lost—

Tell them North Dakota’s story

And the cost!—

Can they too, like you, the price pay?

Can they too, like you, their lives lay

Down, if need be, for their state?

Dare they share her every fate?—

*     *     *     *

To the children of Dakota

This we give,

First of all, a glorious vision

How to live—

Them we give our mines and “bad lands,“

Prairies broad and fertile wheat lands

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Stretching from Missouri’s bed

To the Valley of the Red.

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