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1/25/2004: Charlie Colgrove was a carpenter and all-around colorful character in Dickinson during the 1880s.

1/27/2004: In her book, My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys, North Dakota author Fran Armstrong talks about rodeo stars from the upper Great Plains. One of them is Duane Howard, who was a bronc and champion bull rider during the 1960s. She writes, “As I listened to Duane talking about rodeo, I began to get a picture of who this man is. Not because he talks about himself. That’s just about the last thing I could get out of him. He was always talking about other rodeo greats!”

1/28/2004: This Saturday will be Jim Kleinsasser’s 27th birthday. He was born in 1977 in Carrington, and at 6'3" and 272 pounds, he’s now playing tight end for the Minnesota Vikings.

2/5/2004: It was on this date in 1949 that the North Dakota Air National Guard was called up to drop feed for stranded starving animals in the western part of the state, where a storm had dumped 16 inches on top of the 14 that were already on the ground.

2/6/2004: On this day in 1901, 42 year-old Mary Ann Barry died in Jamestown in what was then called the Insane Asylum. Less than a month earlier, her brother, William Barry, drove into Milton, North Dakota, to give himself up for having killed Andrew Mellum in the barn that morning.

2/9/2004: On this date in 1966, word came from Bismarck that a North Dakota town was going to be given back to Montana.

2/12/2004: This Saturday marks the birthday of Felix Paul Greve, a mysterious writer born in Germany in 1879. Greve was only 21 when his first known work was published, and he soon became renowned for his translations, poetry, fiction and plays in Europe and later in Canada.

2/14/2004: It’s Valentines Day, so here’s a romantic love story. In 1899, Mary Glover staked a claim on land near Edgeley. It adjoined the claim of a man named Hollingsworth, and the two fell in love. Married women couldn’t file land claims, but single women could. And, according to law, they were allowed to marry while proving up, so the couple got hitched. Homesteaders were required to improve their land and live on it for six years, so the couple built a house that spanned the line dividing their claims. They centered the bedroom directly over the line, and did the same with their bed, so that each could fulfill the law by sleeping on their own claims at night.

2/15/2004: On this date in 1936, the temperature plummeted to 60 below in Parshall – and that’s one state record nobody wants to break.

2/16/2004: Yesterday we told you about the state record for cold weather... 60 below in Parshall in 1936. Well, today we bring you a story of a man who made life in winter wonderland a whole lot easier.