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8/1/2007: Seth Bullock arrived in Deadwood, Dakota Territory, on this day in 1876. Bullock’s history as a Deadwood Sheriff and U.S. Marsahal have been made popular by the HBO television series Deadwood, but his lasting legacy on Dakota Territory is much more legendary than even his character in the television show can portray. Bullock’s character was larger than life, and his legend is as real as the city he helped to create.

8/11/2007: Today, August 11, marks the seventh and final day of CANDISC or Cycle Around North Dakota In Sakakawea Country. CANDISC began in 1993 as an inspiration of Fort Stevenson State Park manager Dick Messerly and the Garrison Chamber of Commerce who were searching for a way to showcase North Dakota.

8/16/2007: A large ceremony was conducted near Tower City, North Dakota on this day in 1927. The ceremony was part of a commemoration honoring General Henry Hastings Sibley. The dedication of a bronze tablet marking the spot where General Sibley and his men camped during the United States Dakota War of 1862 served as the highlight of the ceremony.

8/18/2007: Today marks the first full day of fighting in the US-Dakota Conflict of 1862.

8/19/2007: In the 1930’s, drought covered the entire Great Plains for almost a decade. With it, the drought brought other dangers.

8/22/2007: North Dakotan John Hove passed away on this day in 1984. Among the many accomplishments in Hove’s life, the NDSU English professor chaired the North Dakota Council on the Arts for fourteen years, and was appointed to the National Advisory Council of the Higher Education Act by President Lyndon B. Johnson.

8/26/2007: As an excited crowd of North Dakotans watched, the “Spirit of St. Louis” came to a rolling stop on a private landing strip called Hector Field. On this day, August 26, 1927, aviator Charles Lindbergh stepped from his plane to greet the people of Fargo as part of a three month nation-wide tour to promote the construction of airports and commercial aviation.

9/1/2007: Two Northern Pacific railcars derailed from their tracks in downtown Fargo on this day in 1903.

9/2/2007: Jamestown reported a story on this day in 1916 concerning their resident ‘Turtle Man.’ John Bugger, or Turtle John as he became known, made a fortune fishing giant turtles from the James River.

9/4/2007: Cream of Wheat, the hot breakfast cereal that many of us grew up on, was originally developed in North Dakota. Cream of Wheat began as breakfast porridge developed by head flour miller Tom Amidon at the Grand Forks Diamond Milling Company in 1893. He fed the product, made from farina (the whitest part of the wheat), to his family.