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12/18/2006: North Dakota rodeo and Wild West Show star Scott Gore was born on December 16, 1880, at Deadwood, South Dakota. His parents, Bruce “R.B.” and Ella (Ayres) Gore came to North Dakota in the 1890s and worked for the Pierre Wibaux W Bar Ranch.

1/4/2007: An unusual case of missing evidence occurred in Cando on this day in 1904. The story begins a few weeks earlier in Bisbee, North Dakota, when a blind pig, operated by a father and son by the name of Gilmer, was broken up by the authorities there.

1/8/2007: A Fargo postal carrier reported the success of his new winter contraption on this day in 1928. The winter of 1928 proved to be one of the worst on record for North Dakota in terms of snowfall and blizzard-like conditions.

1/10/2007: The city of Ambrose, North Dakota “...had [a] narrow escape from disaster” on this day in 1916, as the city’s pharmacy was set alight by an unknown arsonist.

1/12/2007: It’s been a snowy winter so far…in Colorado, where three blizzards have already pounded the Denver area. In the meantime farmers in the northern Great Plains are praying for snow or freezing rain or any precipitation as government officials plan for a possible continuation of the drought much of our state has experienced the past couple of years. Drought was not on people’s mind around here during the winter of 1996-’97.

1/14/2007: Several rural families near Carrington, North Dakota were given an aerial show on this day in 1910 when a large meteor fell from the sky in that vicinity. T

1/17/2007: The bizarre cause of a Minot fire was reported on this day in 1916, and its sadistic culprit punished.

1/18/2007: A memorial service honoring four North Dakota Air National Guardsmen was reported on this day in 1970. The memorial came days after the four missing men were declared dead by the Alaska Air Command at the Elmendorf Air Force Base near Anchorage, Alaska.

1/19/2007: In 1923, a Canadian opera singer, Eva Gauthier, made history when she included 6 jazz pieces in a concert of classical music at New York’s Aeolian Hall.

1/20/2007: A Valley City man found himself in some trouble on this day in 1907. Martin Bakken, a tailor in that city, was known by many of the locals to have an “appetite for liquor [that had] gotten him into trouble before,” but when police found the man trying to break into a house at two o’clock in the morning on that day, they were extremely perplexed by the situation.