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8/23/2004: In 1909, a Mandan Pioneer article read, “Hurrah for Dogtooth, it has a great out look for a thriving metropolis...” Now, less than 100 years later, there’s nothing left but a grassy knoll.

8/24/2004: The death of Hidatsa Chief Drags Wolf took place on this date in 1943. Only months before, he had vowed he would die before he watched his people’s land destroyed by the Garrison Dam – and he was true to his word.

8/30/2004: On this day in 1957, a North Dakota judge made a decision that marked a milestone in the civil rights movement.

9/3/2004: One hundred and forty years ago, a man named Sam Brown wrote to his father, “I hope you will not believe all that is said of ‘Sully’s Successful Expedition,’ against the Sioux. I don’t think he aught to brag of it at all, because it was, what no decent man would have done, he pitched into their camp and just slaughtered them, worse a great deal than what Indians did in 1862, he killed very few men and took no hostile ones prisoners...and now he returns saying that we need fear no more, for he has ‘wiped out all hostile Indians from Dakota.’ If he had killed men instead of women and children, then it would have been a success, and the worse of it, they had no hostile intention whatever, the Nebraska 2nd pitched into them without orders, while the Iowa 6th were shaking hands with them on one side, the soldiers even shot their own men.”

9/6/2004: It was one hundred years ago last Friday that one of Fargo-Moorhead’s most colorful characters was born. Florence Gunderson grew up in Clay County and was nine years old when she saw her first airplane. At 13, she learned to drive, and a few years later, she and her brother George built themselves a racer from a used car. It wasn’t fast enough, so their next bought a motorcycle. George was riding on the gas tank, and later said, “A tire blew out when the speedometer showed better than 70 miles an hour and Florence went sailing through the air.”

9/12/2004: A story came out of Dickinson on this date in 1923 that cowboys at the Stark County Fair were facing more than bucking broncos. They were dealing with an early predecessor of the mechanical bull.

9/14/2004: Two men were executed in North Dakota on this date in 1900. Their cases were unrelated.

9/20/2004: Today we bring a story about two murders that happened on this date in 1920 – both by the same man. The crime took place two miles from Armourdale, a tiny village that no longer exists.

9/21/2004: North Dakota’s first Christian Science Church was dedicated in Grand Forks on this date in 1905.

9/29/2004: It was on this date in 1883 that Dr. V.H. Stickney arrived in Dickinson. The newspaper reported he “arrived last Saturday from Ludlow, Vermont and has located here for the practice of medicine... He may be found at Davis and Fowler’s drugstore.”