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6/9/2006: Today’s story is about a train robbery west of New Salem. The characters who saved the day were named Sherlock and Watson. On June 6th, 1890, two masked highwaymen stopped a Northern Pacific train after boarding it at New Salem, about 20 miles west of Mandan. They climbed over the engine, and after firing two shots, convinced the engineer and fireman to stop and detach the engine, express car and mail car. Then they pulled away, leaving the coach cars behind.

6/10/2006: Tomorrow, noted frontier photographer Frank Fiske was born in southern Dakota Territory in 1883.

6/12/2006: The 188th Field Artillery Regiment was organized in Valley City in 1940. It was soon split into two groups: the 188th Field Artillery Battalion and the 957th Field Artillery Battalion. On June 11 and 13, 1944, both units entered Normandy, France as part of the D-Day offensive that began a week earlier.

10/25/2007: A terrible tragedy took place on this date in 1913 near Ray, North Dakota. Three people were brutally shot down. The motive seems to have been revenge.

11/10/2007: What does a man do who has rheumatism?

11/11/2007: Newspaper advertising has a long history in the North Dakota Red River Valley.

11/13/2007: Mary Louise Defender didn’t win the title of Miss Indian America by wearing the perfect bathing suit or a flashy evening gown. Instead, she competed against 75 other Native American women garbed in a buckskin dress, with matching buckskin leggings and moccasins, clothing traditional to her tribe. Not a single sequin was present at this beauty pageant.

11/15/2007: On this day in 1922, one family described the muskrat as their very own family pet.

11/21/2007: Three Hundred and eighty six years ago, the Plymouth colonists and the Wampanoag Indians shared in a harvest feast that is now known as the first Thanksgiving.

11/23/2007: On this date in 1905, the Minot Optic reported that the city was fed up with all of its downtown beggars and hobos. Starting today, the Optic reported, those “hobos” who have exhibited “repulsive features in our city," will be given the “cold shoulder.” These vagrants must “disappear in the immediate future, or will be arrested and made to pay the penalty of the law.”