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  • Collection: Bicentennial Stories

Bicentennial Story #80-Queen Marie

Account of the visit to North Dakota by Queen Marie of Romania in November 1926.

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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.

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Bicentennial Story #79-Langer-Rockefeller

Account of encounter between Senator William Langer and Governor Nelson Rockefeller in Washington D.C. in the 1950s.

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Bicentennial Story #78-The naming of Mandaree

Description of how the town of Mandaree got its name in 1954.

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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.

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Bicentennial Story #76-Dickinson waterworks

Account of early water sources for residents in Dickinson.

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Bicentennial Story #75-Dickinson in 1900

Description of Dickinson in 1900.

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Bicentennial Story #74-Early Dickinson Rodeo

Account of the first rodeo/wild west show in Dickinson.

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Bicentennial Story #73-Steamer Thresher

Description of how a threshing machine works.

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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.

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Bicentennial Story #71-Dickinson Fire Department

A history of the creation and early days of the Dickinson fire department.

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Bicentennial Story #70-Dickinson Hose Company

Account of the creation of the Dickinson Hose Company in 1891.

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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.

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Bicentennial Story #69-Shanley praises German-Russians

Writing by Bishop John Shanley of Fargo about Germans from Russia immigrants in North Dakota in 1909.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Bicentennial Story #65-Kerwei at Lefor

Description of kerwei, a Hungarian harvest festival.

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Bicentennial Story #65-Kerwei at Lefor

Description of kerwei, a Hungarian harvest festival.

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