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7/2/2014: The Great Sioux Reservation was a tract of land approximately four hundred miles long and two hundred miles wide. Negotiations to open part of it to homesteading had begun on June 3rd 1889 at the Rosebud Agency and were expected to proceed to the Standing Rock Agency by the first week in July.

7/3/2014: Among the earliest settlers to Dakota Territory, few women have become celebrated or remembered for their efforts, despite the enormity of their contributions and sacrifice. While the names of men litter the early histories of the state, it is rare to encounter accounts written by or about early women of the plains. One woman, however, who has made an indelible print upon the history of North Dakota is Linda Warfel Slaughter, a woman remembered through her extensive writings and reports on the early state of the territory.

7/25/2014: Life was harsh in the military posts on the Plains. They were lonely, isolated places, and frontier soldiers often sought solace through the post trader’s whiskey, but they needed to be wary. Public intoxication at the post could land them in the guardhouse.

8/5/2014: For thirty-eight years North and South Dakota were joined at the hip, but they were never really a unified territory. Even from the very beginning there had been a difference in ideology and a sense of regionalism.

8/8/2014: Lightning is a weather phenomenon that has been fascinating humankind for ages. This movement of electrical charges, on its own, has no temperature -- it is the resistance to the movement that causes heat in the materials lightning passes through. Lightning can heat the air to 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit – about five times hotter than the surface of the sun. A flash of lightning holds enough energy to light a 100-watt incandescent light bulb for about three months.

8/11/2014: It was about midnight on this date in 1883 when Joe Baker made his way home. He had to pass by Long Lake, and thought nothing of it despite tales of romance and tragedy on the shores of the lake told by the Dakota.

8/18/2014: In 1776, Abigail Adams wrote to her husband John, urging him to “remember the ladies” when writing the laws of the new United States. Her words went unheeded. Women would have to wait for over one hundred years before achieving universal suffrage. The territory of Wyoming opened the door when it passed women’s suffrage in 1869, but other states and territories were slow to join the movement. That included the state of North Dakota.

8/27/2014: After forty-five days, North Dakota had its Constitution, but where did it come from?

9/5/2014: North Dakota has recently become the envy and admiration of the rest of the nation as first among those few states experiencing an economic boom. But there was an earlier time for Dakota, a time like today, a time back in the beginning when the sky was no limit.

9/12/2014: At the beginning of September of 1923, two aviators, Lieutenants Kenneth Garrett and Victor Bertrandias, both of the US Air Service, were on a "pathfinding flight" from Long Island to Seattle. Along the way, they stopped at the Agricultural College, now NDSU, to refuel. They collected fifty gallons of gas and had a chat with locals about the flight and their mission.