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10/9/2007: In October of 1872, the newly established frontier village of Bismarck experienced its first death. Private Sharpe was buried by his comrades, receiving the first burial in Bismarck. A month later, Mrs. McDonald gave birth to the first baby in North Dakota’s future capital city, but the baby passed away soon after.

10/10/2007: Yesterday’s Dakota Datebook told the story of Bismarck’s first cemetery and the 1903 unearthing of 13 bodies, one of which may have been Bismarck saloon owner Dave Mullen. In 1873, Dave Mullen was buried in the Fourth Street Cemetery, also known as Boot Hill cemetery, leaving behind a strange tale concerning his death.

10/11/2007: The 12-foot high bronze statue of Sakakawea, with her baby son, Jean Baptiste Charbonneau, on her back, greets visitors to the State Heritage Center, Bismarck.

10/12/2007: Tom Mix, the famous Hollywood silent movie cowboy of the 1920’s has a romantic connection to North Dakota. If fact if it wasn’t for the town of Medora, in Western North Dakota, Tom wouldn’t have married the woman he did!

10/14/2007: On this date in 1908, Bert Morris of Fargo maybe should have just stayed in bed.

10/15/2007: Father Elwood Cassedy died on this date in 1959. He was synonymous with the Home On The Range near Sentinel Butte, North Dakota, which he founded in 1949.

7/23/2015: The topography of the Red River Valley is very simple, it is VERY flat. The soil of the Red River Valley is perhaps not so well known as the topography, however.

7/30/2015: As a listener, you’re likely a fan of radio and perhaps you’re from North Dakota, but even so, you probably haven’t heard of Bertha Palmer, a woman who was influential in both. Coming to North Dakota when she was two year’s old, she attended Devil’s Lake High School. After graduation, she served in various educational roles, and she is most well-known for her time as State Superintendent of Public Instruction.

8/6/2015: On this date in 1742, two French-Canadian explorers were making their way southwestward through North Dakota's badlands. Louis-Joseph de la Vérendrye and his brother François, were the sons of Pierre Gaultier de la Vérendrye, the first known white man in the area that could become North Dakota.

8/14/2015: To see the sprawling campus of the University of North Dakota today, it would be difficult to imagine the humble beginning of the institution and what the campus looked like in 1884.