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It’s unclear how Selfridge, North Dakota got its name. The little town on the Standing Rock Reservation sprang up in 1911 on a branch of the Milwaukee…

The area of where Hettinger, North Dakota took root had a rich history even before the town began. The land was hunting ground for the Cheyenne, Sioux,…

Most towns in North Dakota grew up along the railroad tracks that stretched west across the prairie. In Bottineau’s case, it had to move. The village was…

Many towns in North Dakota are named for someone, and the city of Regan is no different. J. Austin Regan was an early businessman and mover-and-shaker in…

Until the late 19th Century, railroad trains did not have dining cars. Train stations had restaurants or food stands, but the food was often of poor…

The railroad arrived in what is now Slope County in the fall of 1907. A tent city sprang up on the bank of the Little Missouri River. Permanent structures…

William H. White was born on this date in 1851 in Vermont, and he was barely twenty-one when he moved to Moorhead, Minnesota from Brainerd and began a…

Viking or Hamberg? Hamberg or Viking? Early in the last century, Scandinavian and German residents of what is now Hamberg, North Dakota, were at odds over…

School Hill marked the end of John Christiansen’s journey west.He was a 21-year-old German immigrant riding a freight train withthree horses, lumber,…

As settlement of northern Dakota Territory was well underway, two military leaders disagreed in letters to newspapers about the plains’ main attraction:…