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5/24/2013: The Little Missouri Badlands near Medora resemble the Grand Canyon – on a smaller scale. Thousands of colorful buttes dominate the landscape in Theodore Roosevelt National Park along the course of the Little Missouri River.

6/5/2013: The drought of 1936 came with the most severe heat wave North Dakota had ever seen. Temperatures hit record highs and very little moisture fell in the Dakotas. But when it started to rain the following year, on June 3rd, 1937, it looked like the drought was over.

6/7/2013: A progressive public health initiative taken by North Dakota’s prison system garnered national attention on this date in 2007. Although relatively small, with fewer than 1,500 inmates, the state’s prisons were attempting to tackle what the World Health Organization has called the new “silent killer” – Hepatitis C. After a National Public Radio program highlighted the initiative on June 6th, several national newspapers carried the story, shedding light on an oft-hidden problem.

6/9/2013: June 9 just might have been the day a bandit named George Trikk made his mark on North Dakota history.

6/16/2013: On June 16, 1887, a severe wind storm ripped through the University of North Dakota and destroyed much of the school’s main building. The west wing was demolished, its chimneys and cupola knocked to the ground. The school’s museum was a total loss, with most of the collection missing or damaged. This came less than three years after the school first opened.

6/17/2013: The years of the Great Depression, 1929 to 1940, are often remembered in connection with dust-storms, grasshopper swarms, and New Deal government reforms. Other vestiges of the 1930s live on in the buildings constructed during those “hard times” – reminders of federal government programs, like the P-W-A or the W-P-A, which put unemployed people to work with subsistence wages.

6/23/2013: In June 1931, the Ladies Aid Society of the Zion Evangelical Church held a luncheon near Edgeley, North Dakota. Dozens of people travelled to the Mast family farm for the event, about fifteen miles north of the city.

6/29/2013: People in the Turtle Mountains have been racing horses for decades. Many still talk about the informal tracks in the hills, and some families have been participating in the sport for generations.

7/5/2013: Steamboat pilots on the Missouri River watched the horizon with great concern on June 30, 1879. Dark storm clouds were gathering, and by afternoon the rain had nearly reached the river near Bismarck.

7/7/2013: Mandan reported a shooting incident worthy of a modern-day soap opera on this date in 1923. Fred Massingham, a happily married rancher and father from Morton County, was arrested on July 6th for shooting at Mr. Leroy Till in broad daylight in downtown Mandan.