June 25: After the Little Bighorn
On this date in 1876, the Battle of the Little Bighorn commenced. It was over quickly. Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer and 7th Ca...
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Dakota Datebook
Stories of things that happened in North Dakota and vicinity. Sitting Bull to Phil Jackson, cattle to prairie dogs, knoefla to lefse. In partnership with the Historical Society of North Dako...
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20 of 59 episodesJune 24: An Economic Lifeline
The world rejoiced at the end of World War I in 1918. It seemed as if life would return to normal. There was no way to know that the Great D...
June 23: Fishing at the Three Rivers Confluence
On this date in 1929, Joseph Blanding was still living in the family farmhouse at the south end of Wahpeton. He gave a talk to the Wilkin Co...
June 22: The "Paul Revere" of 1916
During World War I, despite American neutrality, military mobilization was already underway. North Dakotans answered the call when President...
June 19: The Winnipeg Log Drive, 1882
If you were standing on the riverbank in Fargo in the summer of 1882, you could watch thousands of pine logs from Minnesota forests floating...
June 18: Barn Struck by Lightning
There is no question that summer storms can bring damaging effects. On this date in 1923, newspapers reported on various storm systems that...
June 17: Remembering Custer
On May 17, 1876, Lieutenant Colonel George Custer bid farewell to his wife, Libby, and rode out of Fort Abraham Lincoln at the head of the 7...
June 16: Ravaged by Wireworms
Following his 1820 expedition to map the American West, Major Stephen H. Long named it the “Great American Desert.” Other early explorers, l...
June 15: The Bad Old Days
On this date in 1899, the Wahpeton Globe noted, “The law enforcement league cleaned the gamblers and sure-thing men out of Fargo last week,...
June 12: The Highest Measure of a Man
The Roaring Twenties were definitely roaring in 1922. The United States was marked by postwar recovery and economic growth. Mass production...
June 11: The Tronders Are Coming!
Between 1825 and 1925, it is estimated that 750,000 people left Norway to emigrate to the United States. About 15 percent of those emigrants...
June 10: A Night at the Opera
As settlers arrived on the Great Plains and towns began to spring up, music became an important source of entertainment. Neighbors living on...
June 9: The Myth of the West
Printed in large quantities on cheap paper, dime novels were wildly popular. Costing just a dime, and sometimes only a nickel, they were aim...
June 8: The eruption that shook the world
Iceland is about 2,500 miles away from North Dakota. That seems very far away indeed. It is difficult to imagine that an event in far-off Ic...
June 5: A Lasting Legacy
The challenges farmers faced during the “Dirty Thirties” took a U-turn with the outbreak of World War II. The rains returned, crops were goo...
June 4: In Cowboy Land
It took many years for Theodore Roosevelt National Park to become a reality. When Theodore Roosevelt died in 1919, proposals were immediatel...
June 3: A Rosy Outlook
By 1911, North Dakota was looking less like the Wild West and more like eastern civilization. Education was a big part of the state’s progre...
June 2: Declared to be Citizens of the United States
The Fourteenth Amendment conferred citizenship on those born in the United States, but one group was left out: Native Americans. In 1884, a...
June 1: The North Dakota Ku Klux Klan
The Ku Klux Klan was founded in 1865 by former Confederates to obstruct the extension of voting rights to Black Americans. Strong Reconstruc...
Dakota Datebook: Teachings of Our Elders - Hinhan Kaga and The Milky Way
In this episode of Dakota Datebook, we'll hear from Kevin Locke, enrolled member of the Standing Rock Nation, in part one of “Hinhan Kaga an...