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Bicentennial Story #80-Queen Marie
Account of the visit to North Dakota by Queen Marie of Romania in November 1926.
Tags: oral history
Bicentennial Story #8-Sully at Fort Rice
Account of General Alfred Sully coming to North Dakota to fight Sioux Indians and build forts in 1864.
Tags: oral history
Bicentennial Story #79-Langer-Rockefeller
Account of encounter between Senator William Langer and Governor Nelson Rockefeller in Washington D.C. in the 1950s.
Tags: oral history
Bicentennial Story #78-The naming of Mandaree
Description of how the town of Mandaree got its name in 1954.
Tags: oral history
Bicentennial Story #77-Explosion on the Heart River 1926
Account of an explosion of a pocket of natural gas along the Heart River, 10 miles south of Richardton, in September 1926.
Tags: oral history
Bicentennial Story #76-Dickinson waterworks
Account of early water sources for residents in Dickinson.
Tags: oral history
Bicentennial Story #74-Early Dickinson Rodeo
Account of the first rodeo/wild west show in Dickinson.
Tags: oral history
Bicentennial Story #73-Steamer Thresher
Description of how a threshing machine works.
Tags: oral history
Bicentennial Story #72-Judge Crawford
Account of Judge W.C. Crawford in Dickinson and his relationship with A.C. Huidekoper, owner of the HT ranch.
Tags: oral history
Bicentennial Story #71-Dickinson Fire Department
A history of the creation and early days of the Dickinson fire department.
Tags: oral history
Bicentennial Story #70-Dickinson Hose Company
Account of the creation of the Dickinson Hose Company in 1891.
Tags: oral history
Bicentennial Story #7-Miniature Writer
Jim Zaharee of Max is declared the world's champion miniature writer in 1935, after writing the Declaration of Independence on a grain of rice.
Tags: oral history
Bicentennial Story #69-Shanley praises German-Russians
Writing by Bishop John Shanley of Fargo about Germans from Russia immigrants in North Dakota in 1909.
Tags: oral history
Bicentennial Story #68-Shanley on roughnecks
Writing by Bishop John Shanley of Fargo in response to violence in ethnic parishes in North Dakota in 1909.
Tags: oral history
Bicentennial Story #67-Sunday Collection at Gladstone
Letter from Father Vincent Wehrle to the Bishop of Fargo about church offering collection amounts in Gladstone and Heart River in 1899.
Tags: oral history
Bicentennial Story #66-Building collapse at Richardton
Account in The Dickinson Press of the collapse of the Catholic seminary being built in Richardton in September 1899.
Tags: oral history
Bicentennial Story #66-Building collapse at Richardton
Account in The Dickinson Press of the collapse of the Catholic seminary being built in Richardton in September 1899.
Tags: oral history
Bicentennial Story #65-Kerwei at Lefor
Description of kerwei, a Hungarian harvest festival.
Tags: oral history
Bicentennial Story #65-Kerwei at Lefor
Description of kerwei, a Hungarian harvest festival.
Tags: oral history