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9/13/2007: Theodore Roosevelt became President of the United States on September 14, 1901, and later said, “I have always said I never would have been president were it not for my experiences in North Dakota.”

9/18/2007: Bonanza farms are a rich and living chapter in the history of the Red River Valley in North Dakota. In the latter part of the nineteenth century, these gigantic spreads were literally known throughout the world. Part of this legacy lives on today.

9/20/2007: Blakey Durant, better known as “Old Shady," died on this date in 1884 in the city of Grand Forks, Dakota Territory. Old Shady was an early composer and singer of one of the country’s most stirring and popular war songs.

9/22/2007: On this date in 1910, a friendly poker game in downtown Fargo turned violent.

9/23/2007: Today, September 23, marks the 145th anniversary of the final battle of the US-Dakota Conflict of 1862 at Wood Lake, MN.

10/3/2007: In October 1878, Stanley Huntley and Marshall H. Jewell became owners of the Bismarck Tribune. They had arrived in Bismarck that fall, stopping on their way to the Black Hills. So excited were they about the business potential in Bismarck that they decided to stay.

10/6/2007: On this day in 1942, Ensign Jean Brandenburg of Bismarck reported for duty as North Dakota’s first female commissioned Naval officer and one of the first WAVES officers in the nation.

10/13/2007: In October of 1942, more North Dakota students were at work in farmers’ fields than college classrooms.

10/16/2007: In the words of Jacob H. Myers, his new voting machine would “protect mechanically the voter from ‘rascaldom’, and make the process of casting the ballot perfectly plain, simple and secret.” Mr. Myers made this statement in 1892 in Lockport, New York. His new automatic booth then appeared in 1895.

10/20/2007: On this date in 1922, a fire broke out in downtown Fargo that caused an estimated $160,000 in damages. Flames started in a store room of the Harrington Hardware Store, and spread quickly to other buildings on the Tyler Block.