Dunseith, N. D.—A staunch American patriot, a full-blood of the Turtle Mountain Chippewa Tribe, Rising Sun died at his home north of Dunseith on the 10th of December, at the age of 110 years, or thereabouts. No one knows his exact age.[...]
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On This Day | Lynching in Williston
Williston, N. D., Dec. 16.—Cleve Culbertson, who murdered Mr. and Mrs. D. Dillon and their thirteen-year-old daughter at the Dillon farm eight miles north of Ray on the evening of Oct. 21, 1913, was taken from the local jail at Williston at[...]
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Pompeii House Frozen Mid-Renovation Reveals Secrets of Roman Cement
The latest excavation at Pompeii has revealed something rare: a Roman construction site preserved mid-project, complete with the raw materials for their famously durable concrete. Researchers studying those piles confirmed that ancient builders used “hot mixing”—combining quicklime and volcanic ash in ways[...]
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On This Day | One of North Dakota’s First?
Mr. La Trail was born in Walhalla, N.D., when this state was all vast wilderness, and he had fought Indians, and hunted bears and buffalo on the plains. [...]Read More... from On This Day | One of North Dakota’s First?
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On This Day | Know Your North Dakota
Also of lacustrine origin, the soil developed in the lake bed of glacial Lake Souris, ranks as the most productive and fertile in all the drift prairie region and would be considered another small [...]Read More... from On This Day | Know[...]
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On This Day | Rebuilding History
The For housed the famed Seventh Cavalry that rode to the Battle of the Little Big Horn in 1876 when it met the combined forces of the Sioux and Cheyenne Indian parties. [...]Read More... from On This Day | Rebuilding History
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What Ken Burns learned by making ‘The American Revolution’ (and Will You Be Watching?)
Ken Burns has spent nearly a decade unpacking the messy, violent, and deeply human story of the American Revolution — long before anyone was counting down to the 250th anniversary. In a new six-part series, he revisits the era not as a[...]
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On This Day | Went Back for the Potatoes
The Clouses stopped at Dodgen, intending to locate there. John Clouse planted some potatoes in the sod, but he heard of better land in the Des Lacs and Mouse river valleys around Burlington, so [...]Read More... from On This Day | Went[...]
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HOLY COW! HISTORY: The Boy Military Hero
Heroes come in all shapes and sizes, they say. And as one instance showed, they come in all ages, too. In many ways, Calvin Graham’s story was typical of many young men of his generation. His childhood was spent in a poor[...]
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On This Day | Heroes of American History
Washington, who was over six feet tall, whose father died when he was eleven, who received his education from the outdoors and practical men, not from books, who was awkward with women, who at [...]Read More... from On This Day | Heroes[...]
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On This Day | The Cable That Made Us
“To Governor Miller and Governor Mellette of North and South Dakota, Bismarck, North Dakota: “The last act in the admission of the two Dakotas as states into the union was completed this afternoon at [...]Read More... from On This Day | The[...]
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On This Day | Local Civil War History
“I was wounded in the Battle of Bull Run,” Mr. Miller informed Mr. Bemis. The latter replied, “Why, that is queer. I was wounded in the same battle. Perhaps you shot me.” “Well, for [...]Read More... from On This Day | Local[...]
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On This Day | Scurvy on the Prairie
Of course we could not have fresh vegetables—result, we had trouble with scurvy—and I remember one Frenchman was so drawn up he could not walk much and I also was in the hospital for [...]Read More... from On This Day | Scurvy[...]
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On This Day | Running Whiskey and Robbing Banks
Winnipeg, Man., Nov. 1 — Manitoba has recommended that the dominion government ask the United States department of justice to wage war against bootleggers and criminals said to be making their headquarters in Minot, [...]Read More... from On This Day | Running[...]
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Minot State to Host Hunter Andes, Author of “The Elders: Stories from Fort Berthold”
MINOT, N.D. – The Minot State University Native American Cultural Center, the MSU Diversity Council, and the Gordon B. Olson Library are proud to announce author and Minot State grad Hunter Andes will be on campus for an author visit during the[...]
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Is a boat-load of gold buried somewhere along the Missouri River?
It began as a journey home, rich with promise and heavy with gold. In the summer of 1863, a boat full of miners drifted down the Missouri River, their fortunes stashed beneath deck planks — and their fate sealed by a single[...]