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9/21/2006: It was on this date in 1973 that Sitting Bull College, in Fort Yates, was granted a charter to operate as a post-secondary educational institution with the authority to grant Associate degrees. It was one of the first tribal colleges in the Nation and was originally called Standing Rock Community College.

9/22/2006: A Streeter man, Orville E. Bloch, was the only North Dakota soldier to receive a Medal of Honor in WWII. As a 1st Lieutenant in 85th Infantry Division, he silenced five machine guns and captured 19 Germans near Firenzuola, Italy. A 1945 Bismarck Tribune published the following story, which was based on the accounts of the two men who were with him on this day in 1944:

9/23/2006: On this day 200 years ago, Lewis & Clark and the Corps of Discovery, with representatives of the Mandan nation, arrived at St. Louis. The historic expedition was officially over. From the time they had left Camp Dubois (across the Mississippi River from St. Louis) in May of 1804, to their return on September 23, 1806, they had logged more than 8,000 miles, and opened a door to the West that could not be shut.

9/26/2006: Kenneth Charging, a 1946 Elbowoods graduate, entered the military in late 1950 or early 1951. Following 5 or 6 weeks of training, he spent a short furlough with his family and was then shipped to the front lines in Korea.

9/27/2006: The old woman was dirty and wore ragged clothes as she was carried from her small and messy shanty near Wilton today in 1916. A grime-caked ribbon threaded through a two-carat diamond ring hung from the dead woman’s neck. This was just one mystery of the woman whose aliases were Ida Lewis and Elizabeth McClellan. Whatever her name, however, to everyone in Bismarck and the surrounding area, she was known only as “Little Casino.”

10/3/2006: A ceremony was reported from Standing Rock reservation on this day in 1913 that was hailed as “The Most Magnificent History Pageant in the History of the Sioux”.

10/12/2006: First-time visitors to Minot, North Dakota are often surprised to find a Norwegian Stave Church in the town’s center. The large wooden church, located in the Scandinavian Heritage Park, is a full-scale replica of the 750-year-old Gol Stave Church currently located in the Bygdøy Folk Museum near Oslo, Norway.

10/13/2006: It's interesting to look back at some of the laws in Dakota Territory in 1887.

10/17/2006: It was a case fit for Hollywood, starring a murdered lover, an infatuated killer, a valiant lawyer, and the beauty that brought them all together again. It was the trial of Madalynne Obenchain, formerly Madalynne Connor of Fessenden.

10/20/2006: Engineers were sifting flour, but it wasn’t the usual flour that is produced from North Dakota’s golden wheat fields. Instead, engineers were sifting for flour gold in the fields between Towner and Balfour, and the process was proclaimed successful today in 1934