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10/12/2011: In Dakota Territory, the last years of buffalo hunting centered on the badlands of the Little Missouri River. Officials at the Standing Rock Reservation allowed certain tribesmen to participate in buffalo hunts under the Indian agent's directions. In October of 1880, "nearly one third of all the male Indians" at Standing Rock went on a buffalo hunt. A year later, agent James McLaughlin, granted permission for 200 Indians to hunt buffalo on the reservation. And in the summer of 1882, McLaughlin himself accompanied a hunting party totaling "six hundred mounted hunters." In the fall, "about 200 Indians . . . rounded up 1,480 buffalos."

10/27/2011: Captain John Palliser, a celebrated Irish explorer and sportsman, arrived at Fort Union on this date in 1847. He had traveled to Fort Union from Independence, Missouri, on an expedition to reach the mouth of the Yellowstone River. Palliser would later recount his Fort Union adventures and hunting forays in his book, Solitary Rambles and Adventures of a Hunter in the Prairies.

10/30/2011: On this date in 1873, Mark Twain was on an ocean cruise. 22 years later, he saw another ocean that impressed America's favorite writer – a sea of grain in the Red River Valley.

11/1/2011: Queen Marie of Romania visited North Dakota on this date in 1926, traveling through the state from Fargo to Montana. She stopped at several small towns and greeted North Dakotans, receiving several tokens of welcome along the way.

11/3/2011: The greatest and longest lasting sports rivalry within the State of North Dakota began this day on a football field in 1894. Just as tempestuous relationships among the people of Dakota Territory pitted sentiments and loyalties between the North and the South, so did the state in her infant years. Now, for the first time on a North Dakota field, with college football itself being only years old, the gauntlet would be thrown down on the gridded grass.

1/25/2012: If you were listening earlier this week, you heard about the White Star liner Republic, which was hit by another liner and sank near Florida in 1909.

1/27/2012: The first meeting of the Fargo-Moorhead American Association of University Women was held on this date in 1922. North Dakota’s third AAUW branch, it was founded by Mrs. R. L. Weber, a new teacher at NDSU.

1/29/2012: William Purcell was appointed to the U.S. Senate on this date in 1910. Purcell’s appointment was made to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Fountain Thompson, who had been appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Martin N. Johnson; this made Purcell the third man to fill North Dakota’s junior Senate seat during a single term.

2/1/2012: Devils Lake was founded in 1882 as Creelsburgh and was also known as Creel City before the post office adopted the name Devils Lake—without the common erroneous apostrophe—in 1884.

2/18/2012: Aloisius Joseph Muench was born on this date in 1889 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.