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5/8/2009: During the winter and spring of 1901, an outbreak of smallpox struck the Midwest. In North Dakota, numerous patients in early February were discovered to have one thing in common — they had worked in the woods of northern Minnesota where they became infected.

5/12/2009: Edna Lu Ella (Weisz) Buck Interviewed: Fargo, ND, 03 May 2008

5/14/2009: Mary Sellinger Interviewed: Regina, SK, 27 July 2007

5/17/2009: Eileen M. (Burlack) Ketterling Interviewed: Wishek, ND, 11 August 2006

5/20/2009: Orion Aryln Rudolph Interviewed: Ashley, ND, 14 May 2008

5/21/2009: Joseph John Black Interviewed: Knox, ND, 06 July 2006

5/27/2009: The issue of slavery and its expansion into new territories erupted as the great political debate of the mid-19th century; eventually leading to secession and civil war.

5/29/2009: On this day in 1915, Sam Silverman was born.

5/30/2009: Work on the Northern Pacific Railway advanced rapidly across the Dakota prairie until the Financial Panic of 1873 brought construction to a screeching halt at Bismarck.

5/31/2009: On this date in 1908, authorities in Hunter were still attempting to locate the perpetrator in a bizarre encounter at the home of Harry Carr. Harry, a local merchant was sound asleep when a noise woke his wife. Worried, she sent Harry to investigate.