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8/11/2010: Today, Lake Johnson sees few visitors. Yet, strategically located along the communication and supply lines between US military forts and the immigrant trail to Montana, Lake Johnson was an important watering hole on the plains of Dakota Territory for much of the 19th century.

8/8/2010: On this date in 1972, the Devils Lake Journal reported on an international biking adventure by two boys.

8/14/2010: Owning a car has long been part of the American dream, but during the market crashes and failings of the Great Depression, the car market also took a dive.

8/15/2010: Fort Rice was a new, remote, frontier post along the Missouri River in 1865.

8/18/2010: While North Dakota is known for its beautiful, yet often dry prairies, the eastern edge of the state is bordered by a series of rivers. For early settlers of the Dakotas, these bodies of water proved to be a significant obstacle for travel, and bridges were simply unavailable. As a result, fords, shallow stretches in a river, provided easy access points by which people of all types could enter the Dakota plains. Among the most important of these fords was the Maple Creek Crossing; a gateway to the Northern Plains.

8/19/2010: However important the role of agricultural exports in North Dakota's economy today, for thousands of years one of our area's principle exports was not food but weapons.

8/20/2010: A 1911 postcard carried this message, "This is how the storm looked [as it] passed over Antler ... wrecked a barn and killed one man 1 ½ miles from where I am working. Am doing quite well...Anton."

8/22/2010: Born in the 1860s in Germany, he was once a printer in Fargo. In about 1905, Gross left Fargo and moved his family across the state by covered wagon — the prairie schooner so well-known to the settlers of the time.

8/23/2010: Efforts to develop the Missouri River seriously began with a proposal to divert water to Devils Lake. This effort was strongly encouraged with various meetings and conferences beginning in 1926, but it was not until the downstream states could be convinced to join the effort that there could be any serious work done.

8/24/2010: For three decades, William F. Cody, better known as "Buffalo Bill," entertained throngs of spectators with his world famous show, "Buffalo Bill's Wild West." And on this date in 1910, as part of his farewell tour, Cody was preparing for his final appearance in North Dakota.