Dave Seifert

7/25/2007: In the early days of North Dakota, there were plenty of wide open spaces. Settling this flat and untamed land did not come easy. Hard work, and a lot of it, was the order of the day. To survive in this new land, one needed a lot of grit, muscle and patience. These new settlers needed a spirit of survival; a “dog-ed” determination.

7/5/2007: On this date in 1876, the steamer Far West returned with the first news of Custer and his 7th Cavalry’s expected encounter with “the Indians.” Up until that point, no one knew that The Battle of the Little Big Horn had been fought earlier on June 25th. Everyone was anxiously awaiting word about the Custer Expedition.

6/21/2007: On June 20, 1957, a category F5 tornado ripped through the city of Fargo, leveling hundreds of homes in the residential Golden Ridge area on the northwestern edge of the city.

6/20/2007: In the early evening on this date in 1957, the residents of North Fargo experienced an event of nature that would change their lives forever. Tragically, this wrath of Mother Nature would eventually claim the lives of thirteen residents of Fargo. Perhaps most tragic of all, six members of a North Fargo family were among the dead.

6/19/2007: Often in the warm summer months, Mother Nature can deliver a violent reminder to those of us in the Upper Great Plains of just how forceful she can be. Summer storms can be as destructive and life threatening as any of our dreaded winter-time blizzards. Of these summer storms, tornados are clearly the most violent and the most dangerous.