Miniature Horses for Sale near De Smet, SD

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Miniature Stallion
Very well mannered, leads well with halter, good around kids. Any other in..
Watertown, South Dakota
Palomino
Miniature
Stallion
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Watertown, SD
SD
$400
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About De Smet, SD

Located in the area of South Dakota known as "East River" (east of the Missouri River, which diagonally divides the state), De Smet was platted by European Americans in 1880. It was named for Belgian Father Pierre De Smet, a 19th-century Jesuit missionary who worked with Native Americans in the United States and its territories for most of his life. In the mid 1880s, prairie fires and failures of crops after a three-year period of drought caused many settlers to relocate their farms and homesteads to easier areas. By 1917, De Smet was a cow town, with many trains passing through every day carrying cattle to market. The Charles Ingalls family, originally of Wisconsin, arrived in De Smet in 1879.