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8/3/2005: Helena Knauf Wink arrived in Jamestown on this date in 1883; she was the first woman doctor in North Dakota. She was strong, and she looked it – tall and slender with deep-set piercing eyes. She was resourceful, generous, honest and fair. Her fees were small – sometimes free.

8/7/2005: The Marquis de Mores built his house overlooking Medora – it became known as the chateau. Actually, though, it was more of a hunting lodge – the type of structure eastern businessmen liked for entertaining guests. It was two stories tall and had 26 rooms.

8/10/2005: Minot was officially founded in 1886, the year Mark Twain wrote Huckleberry Finn, the Statue of Liberty arrived from France, Geronimo surrendered, and Coca-Cola went on the market.

8/13/2005: In 1902, this week’s edition of the Jamestown Alert reported “the history of Frank and Jesse James has been revived in Minot.” D. H. Lord was erecting a new mercantile in Minot, and, in need of a vault door, Mr. Lord traded a new $1,800 model for an older one taken from a bank in his hometown of Northfield, MN.

8/14/2005: Barrett’s Red Letter Circus was in Bismarck during this week in 1887.

8/16/2005: Yesterday we brought you part one of Harriet Beckert’s story. She was an acclaimed opera star until collapsing on stage with blood coming from her eyes, ears and mouth. With her music career cut short, Beckert decided to go to Killdeer, ND, where she had purchased land sight unseen. Her partner and older brother, Ed, died in the 1918 flu epidemic, but Harriet decided to stick it out. The following spring she returned and bought 160 more acres, 25 sheep, and 15 cows.

8/19/2005: Yesterday, we brought you part one of the story on Hilaire du Berrier, who grew up in Flasher. Du Berrier’s life was one adventure after another – from running his “Du Berrier Flying Circus,” to fighting for Haile Selassie in Ethiopia’s fight against Mussolini, to becoming a spy for Spain’s exiled King Alphonso XIII. Twice the enemy captured him – twice he escaped.

8/20/2005: In late summer 1910, the Hansboro News reported: “[A] row started over a lot of boot-leg liquor which had been brought in by one Ben Crayton and peddled out rather freely during the day. Toward evening Ben...made his getaway from the now intoxicated bunch.

8/21/2005: North Dakota was celebrating the state’s 50th birthday during this time in 1939.

8/22/2005: It’s hard to know where to begin with today’s bizarre two-part story . . . perhaps with the disappearance of Jay Allen Caldwell from his father’s ranch near Taylor, ND. His father was James Caldwell, as a wheeler-dealer who made his first fortune during the Civil War. The elder Caldwell lost it all in the 1871 Chicago Fire – warehouses, stock, records, and proof of insurance.