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8/3/2006: Five thousand Indians of the Sioux nation and all but one of their major leaders gathered today in 1888 for discussions on a treaty that would open up lands in the Standing Rock reservation for settlement. Today marked the eleventh day of treaty proceedings and the commissioners still lacked a single signature.

8/10/2006: William Lemuel “Bill” Taylor, North Dakota Cowboy Hall of Fame inductee, died on August 9, 1961.

8/12/2006: The North Dakota volunteer troops of the Philippine Island campaign were en route to Nagasaki, Japan today in 1899. Meanwhile, a committee of North Dakota citizens were meeting the different railroad lines with proposals to get the troops home a little cheaper.

8/19/2006: For several years, Mary Singer of Harvey had been very ill and was unable to take care of her five young boys. She grew worse, and it seemed she would need a miracle to help her recover. The Harvey Herald reported today in 1921 that she got that miracle.

8/24/2006: Although the railroads are credited for bringing growth and prosperity to many small North Dakota towns in the late 1800s and early 1900s, it was the steamboats that first served as the major Red River life lines. Rex King reported of steamboat influence in today’s 1934 issue of the Hillsboro Banner.

8/31/2006: Joseph M. Devine, once North Dakota’s governor and immigration commissioner, died on this date in 1938. He was born in Wheeling, West Virginia, on March 15, 1861, the son of Hugh Calhoun and Jane (McMurry) Devine.

9/7/2006: When Jake Schaeffer of Sheridan County disembarked for France in 1918, he knew he awaited many dangers. As one of the engineers, Jake would have to work under heavy fire while repairing and building roads and bridges. Often, Jake considered everyday his last. Despite this, Jake expressed one complaint, and that was the lack of food.

9/15/2006: Though Teddy Roosevelt is the former president most associated with North Dakota, there was another president who had connections with this state. Rutherford B. Hayes once owned 930 acres of land north of Bismarck, and today in 1882, it was attracting attention from the Bismarck Tribune. That year, crops had been planted on 525 acres and the manager, C.M. Cushman expected to harvest 20,000 bushels of Number 1 grain.

9/20/2006: Opening day of the hunting season is always an anticipated event in North Dakota, but the 1945 hunting season opener proved fatal for two overly-eager hunters in the area.

10/5/2006: One of the first items visitors encounter in the Scandinavian Heritage Park of Minot is a life-size bronze statue of Hans Christian Anderson. Anderson was born in Denmark over two centuries ago, but his fairy tales are today known worldwide. The statue was dedicated by the Souris River Danish Society on this day, October 5, 2004, in anticipation of Anderson’s 200th birthday.