North Dakota Remembers WWI

John Grass, or Charging Bear, was a beloved leader of the Teton Sioux and an ardent supporter of the war effort. July of 1917, although weakened by a…

As more young men left for the battlefields of France, service flags were proudly displayed in homes, business, churches and social organization across…

Among the North Dakota soldiers fighting somewhere in France, were a number of young men of Jewish faith. Sam Rigler, from Taylor, North Dakota, trusted…

Weekly or daily, depending upon the local publisher, North Dakotans counted on newspapers to publish the minutes of county and city meetings, land proofs,…

“Keep a stiff upper lip, Boy!” Merwin Silverthorn grimaced, remembering his father’s words as he lay wounded in a clover field with machine gun bullets…

The American Expeditionary Forces were advancing, with the British and French forces, along the front in France. The causalities were heavy. As of August…

When Dakota Territory was settled, the United States encouraged the arrival of European immigrants. At a federal court hearing this week in 1918, Judge…

The war had brought about some dramatic labor shifts. Immediately a call went out for 25,000 student nurses in July of 1918, it was followed by a request…

As the American Expeditionary Force became more heavily involved on the battlefields of France, casualty numbers were staggering as trench warfare became…

The trial of John H. Wishek, the former state senator and well known banker and businessman from McIntosh County, began in Bismarck on July 9, 1918.…