Bicentennial Story #23-Young Mans Butte-I

Bicentennial Story #23-Young Mans Butte-I

Description of the naming of Young Mans Butte located 3 miles east of Richardton.

6/2/1975

2/16/1976

Father Louis Pfaller
Jack Hjort

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Young Mans Butte, ND

Richardton, ND

Copyright Stark County Historical Society and Dickinson Museum Center

Three miles east of Richardton, Young Man's Butte dominates the horizon. Geologists can tell you that its cap of rocks was once the bottom of a lake some 40 million years ago. To the Indians who gave it its name, the butte had more romantic associations. One legend tells of a band of Arikara Indians who left their homes on the Grand River after a quarrel. When they reached the butte, several young braves were overcome by loneliness for sweethearts left behind, turned about, and sped back to their loved ones. It was for these young lovers, some think, that Young Man's Butte was named.

This is Bicentennial Story No. 23, prepared by Father Louis Pfaller for the Stark County Historical Society, Jack Hjorte at the piano.

D.H., Vol. 21, p. 105

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Bicentennial tape #3, Bicentennial stories 23-45