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7/13/2004: The 1930s were hard on North Dakota farmers. About the only thing that survived the dust storms and grasshoppers were Russian thistles. Cattle starved or fell dead with bellies full of dirt, and farm foreclosures became more and more frequent. An elevator man in Sanish thought the price of wheat hit rock bottom at 56 cents a bushel and wrote on his market chalkboard, “Don’t faint when you read these prices.” Little did anyone realize that within the next several years, wheat would go as low as 17 cents in Montrail County.

6/23/2004: Yesterday, we began a 3-part story on Gudmundur Grimson, the attorney for a farm family whose son turned up dead in a forced-labor camp in Florida.

6/29/2004: That’s the Ballad of Limpy Jack, written by Tania Durham, a Jamestown native who has spent a number of years exploring the history of Limpy Jack Clayton, who died in a Jamestown hospital on this day in 1893.

7/2/2004: It was on this date in 1968 that General Harold K. Johnson finished his tenure as Army Chief of Staff, a position he held under President Johnson during the build-up of the Vietnam War.

7/4/2004: The Rosten Thunder and Lightning Show in Tioga tonight had its origins in 1989 on Bruce Rosten’s farm outside of Wildrose. Rosten is a self-taught fireworks maker who has earned the title of Grand Master, the highest level a shell builder can attain within the International Pyrotechnics Guild.

7/7/2004: North Dakota’s first mass murder took place on this date in 1893. Six members of the Daniel Kreider family were killed on their farm southeast of Cando, including four of their 8 children.

7/10/2004: According to a Native American legend, a traveling war party once came upon a very large herd of buffalo spread throughout a wide valley, and right in their midst laid a peaceful and beautiful buffalo of pure white. The war party realized that the other animals kept their distance, which was interpreted as a sign of great respect, because the white buffalo was something very special and has remained so ever since.

7/12/2004: spread in the Minneapolis Sunday Journal, including photos and artwork. The story referred to Blackfeet/Hunkpapa Chief John Grass adopting Alfred Burton Welch, Captain in the U.S. Army, as his son.

7/14/2004: The International Peace Garden straddles the U.S.–Canadian border between Boissevain, Manitoba and Dunseith, North Dakota. It was on this date in 1932 that it was first dedicated.

7/18/2004: Looking back at the unseasonably cold weather this spring, it’s interesting to note the record high and low temperature that have been set at Theodore Roosevelt National Park over the years. For the months of February through September, every high record except one was set during the 1980s and ‘90s, while almost every cold record was set during the 1960s.