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8/30/2005: J. E. Shannon was being held in the Cass County jail at this time in 1916. He was arrested March 28th, of that year, during an attempted robbery and gunfight in the Fout & Porterfield Drugstore in Davenport, south of Fargo. Five months later, on August 24th, Sheriff John Ross discovered something unusual.

9/3/2005: On this date in 1914, Governor Louis B. Hanna proclaimed the area encompassing the Standing Rock Reservation in ND as Sioux County.

9/4/2005: There’s always been something to blame for our marital problems. In the Garden of Eden, it was a juicy red apple, and later another fruit – the fruit of the vine – became the downfall of many-a-poor-marriage.

9/6/2005: Crime was busting out all over on this date in 1939. In the early morning hours, four men in a black ‘36 Chevy with Wisconsin plates pulled off a spectacular series of safe-crackings between Minot and Washburn. The gang of robbers – or yeggs, as they were called back then – hit four different towns, cracking at least eleven different safes.

9/7/2005: North Dakota musician Lawrence Welk said his first real break came in 1937, when his band was playing in Chaska, MN. Will Osborne’s band was playing in nearby St. Paul, and one day Welk told his band he was taking them into the city for lunch and to “listen to a real artist at work.” One of his band members joked, “If you’re going to treat...[the] guy must be good!”

9/15/2005: Yesterday we introduced you to the life of the Hunkpapa Chief Rain in the Face. Two months before his death, in September 1905, he told historian Charles Eastman about a daring raid he and some friends made against Fort Totten in 1866.

9/16/2005: Vilhjalmur Stefansson was one of the most noted and famous explorers of the Arctic, mounting expeditions into uncharted territories for years at a time. Although born in Canada, Stefansson grew up in Mountain, ND, and attended college at UND for a time. After several earlier explorations, Stefansson was chief of the Canadian Arctic Expedition that boarded a whaling ship called the Karluk. In June 1913, they set sail from Victoria, British Columbia, toward the Arctic.

9/17/2005: The saddle issued to the 7th Cavalry – the one to which Custer belonged – was developed by General George McClellan during the period of the Civil War.

9/23/2005: Yesterday, we told you about the formative years of Lute Olson, now coach of the Arizona Wildcats. When he was just five years old, both his father and older brother died. His mother sold their farm near Hatton and squeaked out a living by working odd jobs in Mayville.

9/24/2005: On this date in 1917, Grand Forks Police Chief J. W. Lave banned automobiles from parking “in the immediate vicinity of churches” when worship services were being held.