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It’s unclear how Selfridge, North Dakota got its name. The little town on the Standing Rock Reservation sprang up in 1911 on a branch of the Milwaukee…
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The area of where Hettinger, North Dakota took root had a rich history even before the town began. The land was hunting ground for the Cheyenne, Sioux,…
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Most towns in North Dakota grew up along the railroad tracks that stretched west across the prairie. In Bottineau’s case, it had to move. The village was…
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Many towns in North Dakota are named for someone, and the city of Regan is no different. J. Austin Regan was an early businessman and mover-and-shaker in…
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Until the late 19th Century, railroad trains did not have dining cars. Train stations had restaurants or food stands, but the food was often of poor…
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The railroad arrived in what is now Slope County in the fall of 1907. A tent city sprang up on the bank of the Little Missouri River. Permanent structures…
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William H. White was born on this date in 1851 in Vermont, and he was barely twenty-one when he moved to Moorhead, Minnesota from Brainerd and began a…
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Viking or Hamberg? Hamberg or Viking? Early in the last century, Scandinavian and German residents of what is now Hamberg, North Dakota, were at odds over…
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School Hill marked the end of John Christiansen’s journey west.He was a 21-year-old German immigrant riding a freight train withthree horses, lumber,…
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As settlement of northern Dakota Territory was well underway, two military leaders disagreed in letters to newspapers about the plains’ main attraction:…