Roberts County, South Dakota, long the home of the Sisseton, Wahpeton, and Cuthead Yanktonaise Sioux, became part of Deuel and Cheyenne Counties in 1862, with Deuel extending north to the 46th parallel in 1872. The Reservation, extending south to Lake Kampeska in a giant flatiron, was established in 1867. From 1873 to 1883, Grant County included the part southeast of the Reservation, and in 1883 Roberts County, named for S. G. Roberts, a Territorial Councilman of Fargo, was created. It was organized on August 6, 1883, by Frederick Dittes, Charles Crissey, Indian Agent, and Reuben R. Hall, at Dittes’ residence, and Travare, two miles southwest of Browns Valley, was named county seat. In 1884 Wilmot won the election, but after losing two court actions, stole the records and was named county seat by the 1885 legislature. Wilmot in turn lost an election in 1898 to Sisseton, which, fearing court action, stole the records and again won approval in the 1900 election. White settlement on the Reservation came in 1892, and the railroad reached Sisseton in 1893. Post offices included Sisseton Agency in 1872, Wilmot in 1881, White Rock in 1885, Corona in 1886, Summit, Sisseton, and Effington in 1892, and Rosholt, Victor, Hammer, and Claire City in 1914, when the Soo Line entered the county. Richland County, North Dakota, includes a southerly four-mile strip that was once part of Roberts County.