Oshkosh having been without a licensed dentist for several years, Dr. Dunlavy jumped into a big business from the start.

SIOUX COUNTY

DESCRIPTION AND EARLY HISTORY

Sioux county lies in the extreme northwestern corner of the state. It is sixty-nine miles long, with an average width of about thirty miles. There are three correction lines in the county with the net result that the county is thirty-four miles wide at its base and but twenty-eight at its top.

The history of this county, next to that of Cheyenne county, goes back into the primitive, before Jim Dahlman and other Texas rangers invaded the wide prairies.

In territorial days, before 1867, the land was divided into two subdivisions with no distinctive border between the two. The west section was known as Beauvais Terras or bad lands, and the east portion as the Great Sand Hills. Bear in mind that the "county" then was much larger than at present, but statesmen had not considered it of sufficient importance to give it a name.

About the only evidence of civilization, was the proposed wagon road from Fort Pierre to Fort Laramie, in the northwest corner and roughly paralleling the present Hat creek. Along this route was a place Called Dancer's Hill, the location of which has been lost to the memory of man. The oldest of the present generation of people there do not seem to have heard of it.

Fifty years ago, March 1, 1867, Nebraska became a state, and by an arbitrary act of the legislature, Sioux county came into existence. Its eastern boundary was the present west line of Holt county, and its south line the forty-first degree of latitude, which is its present south line. There was no county government, and few white people to need one until a later date.