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12/31/2004: Martin Iron Bull was born in 1875 and grew up at Cannon Ball on the Standing Rock reservation. Martin and his brother, Four Swords, were trained from a young age to be medicine men in the tradition of their father and grandfather. A WPA worker interviewed him in the 1930s.

2/18/2005: Today is the birthday of Amie Lorsung Allison, who graduated from NDSU with an electrical engineering degree in 1995. In 2003, her alma mater honored her with the NDSU Alumni Horizon Award for her work with the space program.

2/22/2005: On this date in 1939, North Dakotans were trying to sort out the sudden brouhaha in the state legislature over the repeal of a movie bill.

3/2/2005: One would think that in a state with as many rock piles as we have, there would be fieldstone buildings everywhere, but they tend to be uncommon.

3/9/2005: Today’s story comes from the reminiscences of J.W. Foley Sr., the father of J.W. Foley Jr. who became a highly regarded poet. The elder Foley fought in the Civil War and then moved his family from St. Louis to Fort Lincoln, near Bismarck, in 1878.

3/13/2005: Torkel Njaa was born during this week in 1870 in Thime, Norway. He pioneered in Griggs County with a farm in the Sheyenne Valley southeast of Cooperstown

9/8/2004: “Not until we have removed the shadow of the Crippler from the future of every child can we furl the flags of battle and still the trumpets of attack. The fight against infantile paralysis is a fight to the finish, and the terms are unconditional surrender.”

9/15/2004: According to the dictionary, yegg is a slang term for: a thief, especially a burglar or safecracker.

9/19/2004: Soldiers stationed on the military frontier brought with them a taste for malt beverages like beer and ale. This was sometimes satisfied by ale imported from England, Scotland, or Ireland, which could be bought at the post trader’s store – if the fort was located on or near a railroad or navigable river. In the days prior to pasteurization, ale’s heady character permitted shipment over long distances because of its relatively high alcohol content.

9/22/2004: It was at 2 o’clock in the morning, on this date in 1888, that a crowd of cowboys, gamblers and drifters crammed into Frank Church’s horse barn in Grand Forks. They were there to watch prizefighter George Fulljames go up against an undisclosed opponent in a fight to the finish.