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10/10/2012: One-room school houses are an important part of educational history in prairie towns, but what happens when the school itself is moved illegally?

10/15/2012: With all the oil activity and exploration in the state, perhaps Harold Hamm and the boys at Continental Resources and other companies might give a listen to a much easier way to locate the oil, or at least one method being used on this date in 1936.

10/16/2012: Alfred Burton Welch was born in September 1874 in Afton, IA. He spent a good chunk of his childhood in South Dakota. He had an extensive military career; it began with a tour of duty during the Philippine Insurrection.

10/17/2012: For many residents of LaMoure County, Independence Day was the highlight of the year. But in 1883 the day was more than a time of celebration; it became a battle in the war of rivalry between two towns.

10/18/2012: Governor William Langer issued an embargo on North Dakota wheat on this date in 1933, stopping all shipments from the state of Number One Dark North Spring Wheat and Number Two Amber Durum. North Dakota National Guardsmen were placed on active-duty at midnight and posted at all state border crossings in order to enforce the order.

10/19/2012: On this date in 1931, the residents of Bismarck laid a special pioneer to rest. This pioneer had no name and never lived: it was a trolley car, placed into service around 1905, originally intended to haul coal up the hill to the Capitol building. The trolley was reportedly the first streetcar in the state, and the first and only trolley line to be owned and run by any state in the country.

10/20/2012: It was about this date in 1916 near Calvin, North Dakota when six-year-old Russell Duncan noticed a snake skin in the grass as he herded cows to the barn for milking.

10/21/2012: It was announced this week in 1938 that ownership of the Sioux County Pioneer-Arrow newspaper would be passed to Alfred Martell, who had been associated with the paper for almost twenty-five years.

10/22/2012: Citizens of Bismarck celebrated the completion of the Northern Pacific bridge over the Missouri River in October of 1882. Construction of the bridge had posed a major obstacle to the Northern Pacific Railway, and the railroad hired George S. Morison, a civil engineer, to do the work. Morison (1842-1903), a Harvard University graduate, had learned about building bridges when he assisted in constructing one across the Missouri River at Kansas City in 1867.

10/28/2012: For those of you who wonder why cars often come with doors that automatically lock at certain speeds, or how certain seatbelt laws came to pass—