The Knights of Leisure

In Bottineau during the late 1880s, there emerged an association of men “on the ragged edge of civilization,” as one of them said, in a boom town on the Manitoba Railroad. They determined to have some fun poking fun at the booster spirit and the fraternal lodges that dominated the social scene. They gathered and wrote a constitution for the Ancient Order of Sit Stills and declared themselves the Knights of Leisure. They resolved “to take things easy and never to stand when it is possible to sit.”

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The Knights of Leisure is an episode from Plains Folk by Prairie Public Broadcasting.

This episode is 4:10 long.

This episode was published on Feb 28, 2026.

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