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4/1/2016: Game and fish regulation in North Dakota dates back to Dakota Territory in 1861. Hunting restrictions began in 1875 on quail and waterfowl. By 1881, it was illegal to kill and leave any part of a big game animal on the prairie. Allowances on fishing methods also passed that year. The first game and fish occupation was fish commissioner, created in 1881. The responsibilities of the commissioner included stocking rivers and streams.

4/8/2016: In 1923, Clara Horn of Cando was accused of killing Maybell Ried, the infant child of Ophelia Reid.

4/12/2016: Dakota would see ten territorial governors before North and South Dakota became states. The territory’s governors were a colorful bunch, from the corrupt Nehemiah Ordway to the often absent John Burbank. Topics of the times included relocating the capital, women’s suffrage, and the boom of the railroads.

4/15/2016: In the early 1900s, horsepower was provided by, well … horses. They were commonly used in cities as well the country. In 1879, the first streetcars in Fargo were pulled by horses. This began to change when an electric system was established in 1904, but horses remained in use for many years. Postcards and photos from the early 1900s show horses sharing downtowns with trains, streetcars, and foot traffic.

4/20/2016: The largest and one of the last counties to organize in North Dakota did so on this date in 1905. McKenzie County was created in 1883 by the territorial legislature, but the legislature eliminated the county in 1891 due to its lack of settlement, but recreated the county in 1905.

4/22/2016: Diversity defined Harrison A. Bronson’s working life, which brought him to law offices, a bank, a seminary, the state mill and the North Dakota Supreme Court.

4/25/2016: The story of Kensal, North Dakota starts with two homesteading shacks in the middle of the prairie, about 30 miles north of Jamestown. Like many other towns in North Dakota, it grew up along a rail line in the early 1890s. A train station was built near the two shacks 1892. One of those shacks had the honor of receiving Kensal’s first bride in 1893, before the two shacks were hauled away to farmsteads.

4/26/2016: John Fraine was the tenth Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota and he also served in the North Dakota House, and one contribution he made to the state that’s still familiar today is the state flag, which he introduced to the legislature in 1911. But Fraine also served in the military. It was on this date in 1898 that Fraine enlisted as captain for Company C of the First North Dakota Infantry. Prior to that he had been Company C as a member of the National Guard.

5/5/2016: High winds are a defining feature of North Dakota, but tornados are something else. Fargo’s deadly 1957 tornado damaged over 1,000 homes and killed ten people. A Watford City twister in 2014 brought winds up to 120 miles per hour and injured a teenager. And a tornado west of the Turtle Mountains in 1996 left a path over a mile wide.

5/6/2016: Theodore Roosevelt wasn’t the only New Yorker who renewed himself in North Dakota.