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7/8/2013: When anglers think about fishing in North Dakota, Lake Sakakawea and Devils Lake come to mind. These lakes offer world-class walleye fishing, but there are plenty of northern pike, perch and sunfish abounding in lakes and rivers across the state.

7/17/2013: In 1934, controversial Governor William "Wild Bill" Langer was convicted of misappropriating federal resources for political reasons by promoting his political party, the Non-Partisan League, to federal workers in the state capital. This was a felony, and state law declared that no one could be Governor if convicted of a felony.

7/19/2013: For many, fishing has always been one of the joys of summer, while others claim not to understand the sport. Maybe Henry David Thoreau said it best when he wrote: “Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.”

8/15/2013: The State Historical Society of North Dakota was a fledgling organization in 1905. Although its roots went back to Statehood in 1889, the effort to save significant sites and artifacts was ill-defined and ill financed. Several previous attempts to establish a statewide historical society, including one in 1895, had failed to gain public support, even though a room to house collections had been set up in the Capitol Building. By 1897 the organization had fallen into decay and much of North Dakota’s early history was fading away or being exported to Eastern institutions.

8/21/2013: During Prohibition, some North Dakotans illegally produced and transported liquor for the consumption of the masses. From 1920 to 1933, bootleggers smuggled whisky from Canada across the border and into North Dakota to be transported to Minnesota in their “whisky-sixes” –powerful six-cylinder cars. Breaking the Prohibition laws was said to be a “thrilling North Dakota sport,” and the state’s chief enforcement officer, F.L. Watkins, said “an average of 200 automobile loads a month, 20 cases [of whisky] to a load” passed through North Dakota in 1921.

8/24/2013: A terrifying ordeal for Litchville residents was reported by The Bismarck Tribune on this date in 1948.

8/31/2013: Fort Yates was established in 1876. For the next twelve years it was considered the major post in the Dakotas because of its placement on the Missouri River and the Standing Rock Indian Reservation.

9/5/2013: Ed and Dorothea Canfield were a husband and wife team famous for their flying careers.

9/6/2013: Two train agents shot and killed would-be looter Robert Williams aboard an east-bound freight train on this date in 1917; Williams, a member of the Industrial Workers of the World, jumped the train at Dilworth. Strongly anti-war, I-W-W members, or ‘Wobblies’ as they became known, engaged in various acts of sabotage against the nation during the First World War. Composed largely of unskilled and migratory workers, they were very active in North and South Dakota, as well as Minnesota, during the 1910s, often in league with the rising Non-Partisan League.

11/24/2012: In the general election of November of 1916, Morton County was divided, and two new counties were created – Sioux and Grant. On this date of that year, a group of civic leaders from the village of Leith were in Bismarck, attempting to gain support for Leith as the new county seat.