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6/25/2007: “Digging up bones, I’m digging up bones. I’m exhuming things that are better left alone.”

6/27/2007: During June 1938, North Dakota voters passed a constitutional amendment to create a State Board of Higher Education. The amendment removed control of the state’s colleges from the Board of Administration, placing control with the new, non-political board.

7/3/2007: When the waters of Lake Sakakawea are down, the former townsite of Sanish sometimes resurfaces. Back in the late ‘40s and early ‘50s, Sanish was the place to be for rodeo fans.

7/7/2007: On this day in 1929 Dwight “Barney” Zimmerley swooped low over the town of Cogswell, ND. Zimmerley was on a record flight from Brownsville, Texas, to Winnipeg.

7/9/2007: An accidental shooting on this day in 1916 led to some very curious events in Wahpeton, North Dakota. Although the shooting occurred on this day, July 9th, it was not reported until five days later, on July 14th. Miraculously, the victim, and probable shooter in the incident, somehow managed to survive those five days without food or medical attention.

7/11/2007: “The village of Van Hook, North Dakota may have no claim to greatness, but it can claim the unusual distinction of knowing its beginning and end,” stated the Mountrail County Historical Society. Though Van Hook is no longer an official city of North Dakota, one might also say that it is one of few towns to be reborn again–at least in spirit.

7/14/2007: A tragic “prank of fate” was reported from Mandan on this day in 1916.

7/19/2007: North Dakota’s history is filled with stories of brave soldiers and warriors. Throughout the spring and early summer of 1918, state newspapers were reporting stories of yet another—Charlie Rogers.

7/22/2007: Morgan T. Rich established the first settlement at Wahpeton on this date in 1869. This was not Mr. Rich’s first visit to the area however. Earlier, in 1864, he had passed through the area on a trek from Ft. Ridgeley, in Minnesota, to what is now Helena, Montana. General Sully and 4,000 cavalry and mounted infantry were the escorts on this earlier visit.

7/27/2007: On this day in 1849, a boy was born in Geneva, New York. The boy, Luther Sage Kelly, would grow up to become a great Indian scout, soldier and adventurer, living a life, said the Drake Register, “that comes to few men outside story books.”