As soon as the railways were open into the Missouri Valley, affording an outlet for stock, there sprang up to the westward cattle and sheep raising on an immense scale.

铁路一通到密苏里河谷，为牲畜提供​​了出路， 就向西涌现了大规模的牛羊养殖。

One of seven nations, or seven council fires, that made up the Sioux Alliance, the Lakotas had lived in the forests and wetlands between the Great Lakes and the Missouri Valley for centuries.

作为构成苏族联盟的七个国家或七个议会之火之一，拉科塔人几个世纪以来一直生活在五大湖和密苏里河谷之间的森林和湿地中。