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11/24/2004: The Medora Stage and Forwarding Company was incorporated by the Marquis de Mores on this date in 1884. It consisted of a stagecoach line between Medora and Deadwood, South Dakota.

11/27/2004: The 7th Cavalry’s lone survivor at the Battle of the Little Bighorn was a horse named Comanche. During the battle, many soldiers slaughtered and hid behind their horses for cover, but it’s reported that Lt. Col. Myles Keough kept his horse alive and crouched between Comanche’s legs as he fought. Keough was killed, but victorious warriors left Comanche alone out of respect, because even in death, the Lt. Col. held his horse’s reins in his hands.

11/29/2004: A number of wonderful restorations have saved many worthy historic buildings around the state during the past several decades. Among these nick-of-time projects was the restoration of Fargo’s Northern Pacific Depot. Construction of the building began in 1898 and was finished

12/2/2004: North Dakota has had two different towns named Calvin. The first one, in Rolette County, consisted of a rural post office established October 23, 1899. The postmaster was named Ira Eisenhour, but his job was short lived. His post office order was rescinded almost exactly a year later, and that was the end of Calvin number one.

12/4/2004: Here’s a bit of trivia for fans of Gary Edward Keillor – otherwise known as Garrison – of Lake Woebegone. Keillor was born in 1942 in Anoka, which was, at that time, a small town outside Minneapolis. He was the third of six children.

12/5/2004: Sitting Bull’s war chief, Gall, died on this date 110 years ago. The Hunkpapa chief played a major role in the Lakota’s war with the United States.

12/11/2004: Towner isn’t in Towner County, it’s McHenry County’s seat; the town of McHenry, however, is in Foster County. Cavalier isn’t in Cavalier County; it’s the county seat of Pembina County. Beach is the county seat of Golden Valley County, but Golden Valley is in Mercer County. So is Stanton, Mercer County’s seat, but Mercer, the town, is in McLean County.

12/12/2004: On this date in 1944, a four-engine B-17 bomber crashed three miles north of Minot.

12/14/2004: On this date in 1944, Senator Gerald Nye made news by marrying Arda Marguerite Johnson in Iowa Falls; it had been less than a year since Nye’s first wife had divorced him. Nye was a Cooperstown newspaper editor when he began his 20-year U.S. Senate career in 1925. He was 33 and a Republican who was endorsed by the Non-Partisan League.

12/15/2004: On this date in 1944, residents of Grafton and Mountain were rocked by the news that a young nurse was found dead in the back seat of a parked car. Sigrum Grimson was 22-years old and had grown up in Mountain, in Pembina County. She had last been seen two days earlier at 2 p.m. – the end of her shift – when leaving the Deaconess Hospital in Grafton. That was on a Wednesday.