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9/27/2005: This date in 1897 was an inglorious day for a young group of would-be train robbers. The previous night at about midnight, westbound Train No. 1 was late in arriving in Fargo. The Bismarck Tribune reported: “The delay was due to the special request of a number of highwaymen and was unavoidable under the circumstances, as the highwaymen were temporarily masters of the situation. It was a surprising event, considering the locality, as it has always been supposed that the holdup line was a good deal farther west.”

10/19/2005: When Edward Curtis died on this date in 1952, he left behind a massive body of work – 20 volumes of photographs attempting to capture a way of life that had largely ceased to exist.

10/20/2005: As an infantryman, Woodrow Wilson Keeble of Wahpeton became the state’s most decorated soldier. He fought with the ND 164th in WWII and as a marksman and expert with a Browning Automatic Rifle, he had one of the military’s most dangerous jobs – yet he survived more than five years of ground fighting in that war.

10/21/2005: Some wild and crazy things were going on about this time in 1911. Out west, a woman was going after the Dickinson City Council.

10/25/2005: In 1941, Imperial Japan’s war was limited to the Asian mainland, but on December 7th, they left their shores and flew east and south to simultaneously attack the Philippines, Wake, Guam, Hong Kong, the Malay Peninsula and . . . Pearl Harbor.

10/26/2005: Today is part 2 of a series on the 164th Infantry Regiment – otherwise known as the ND National Guard – at Guadalcanal during World War II. It was two months after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor that the 164th was called up. In March 1942, they shipped out from San Francisco on the President Coolidge, destination South Pacific. It turned out they were to be the first Army regiment to taken offensive action against the enemy.

10/27/2005: For the past two days, we’ve talked about the South Pacific battle of Guadalcanal. The 164th Infantry – the ND National Guard – was sent there in October 1942 to reinforce the Marines during America’s first offensive action against the enemy in WWII. When the 164th arrived on October 13th, the Marines were holding a critical airstrip called Henderson Field.

11/1/2005: Washburn, the oldest city in McLean County, was founded on this date in 1882. The man responsible was John Satterlund, who, by the time he died, was known across the state as “King John.”

11/7/2005: George W. Baker was lynched in Steele on this day in 1912.

11/9/2005: On this date in 1920, The Bismarck Tribune explained the state’s Blue Laws stemmed from a disgruntled New Haven colonist who ridiculed the colony’s laws.