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2/5/2009: Welcome to the home of Medora, Fort Abraham Lincoln and Bonanzaville; that's right, its all here in the great state of…Lincoln!? Well almost. Naming the northern half of Dakota Territory 'North Dakota' seems an obvious choice today. But that wasn't always the case.

2/11/2009: “About five o’clock this evening one of the wives of Charbonneau was delivered of a fine boy. It is worthy of remark that this was the first child which this woman had boarn and is common in such cases, her labour was tedious.”

2/19/2009: A 1928 Time magazine article dubbed Thomas Campbell the “Henry Ford of farming.” It was a fitting tribute to the internationally renowned “Wheat King,” born in Dakota Territory on this date in 1882.

2/20/2009: Henry Hastings Sibley, born on this date in 1811, left his mark on the Northern Plains. After serving as Minnesota’s first governor, he participated in the US-Dakota Conflict of 1862 and led the punitive expedition against the Dakota the following year.

2/21/2009: The opening of the goose hunting season today seems to indicate the coming of spring to North Dakota, but everyone wonders when that will happen.

2/23/2009: Progress, it seems, is all about direction. Oliver Wendell Holmes stated, "The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving."

2/24/2009: Everlasting adoration is often the material for writers and poets, but for Bea Agard from Larimore, North Dakota, receiving the gift of lifelong fidelity was real.

2/25/2009: You're standing on stage with a microphone resting comfortably in hand as the crowd screams for an encore.

2/26/2009: In 1907, North Dakota was hit by a winter so bad, it almost surpassed the imaginations of friends and relatives back east - "almost" being the key word.

3/1/2009: Among North Dakota's many immigrants have been women who married American servicemen stationed abroad. One such war bride arrived in Bismarck on this date in 1948.