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Bicentennial Story #115-Fort Stevenson desertions
Account of desertions of 2 prisoners from Fort Stevenson on December 11, 1867.
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Bicentennial Story #114-Maids at Fort Lincoln
Account of the difficulty to keep maids at Fort Abraham Lincoln.
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Bicentennial Story #111-Scurvy at Fort Stevenson
Account of scurvy cases at Fort Stevenson and measures taken to reduce the number of cases.
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Bicentennial Story #110-Orderly for Sheridan
Account of choosing who would be orderly for the day for General Phil Sheridan when he visited Fort Rice.
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Bicentennial Story #109-Rats at the forts
Account of the number of rats that were in forts in Dakota Territory.
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Bicentennial Story #108-Forts without stockades
Description of how forts were built.
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Bicentennial Story #107-Purpose of forts
Description of the purpose of the forts built in North Dakota.
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Bicentennial Story #106-Sakakawea not a guide
Description of Sakakawea's role on the Lewis and Clark expedition.
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Bicentennial Story #105-Lewis & Clark leave Fort Mandan
Account from Meriwether Lewis on the day they left Fort Mandan on April 7, 1805.
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Bicentennial Story #104-Fort Mandan zoo
Description of the first zoo in North Dakota at Fort Mandan.
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Bicentennial Story #103-York
Account of Indians reaction to York, servant of Meriwether Lewis.
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Bicentennial Story #102-Fort Mandan midwifery
Account of the birth of Sakakawea's son, Jean Baptiste Charbonneau, on February 11, 1805 at Fort Mandan.
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Bicentennial Story #101-Hospital at Fort Mandan
Account of Fort Mandan's use as a hospital in 1804-1805.
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Bicentennial Story #100-Christmas at Fort Mandan
Account of Christmas Day at Fort Mandan in 1804.
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Bicentennial Story #99-Site of Fort Mandan
Description of the replica site of Fort Mandan built 3 miles west of Washburn, ND.
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Bicentennial Story #98-Newman's court martial
Account of the punishment of Private John Newman for mutiny in 1804.
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Bicentennial Story #95-Taft-Peaceful Valley
History of Peaceful Valley Township, south of Belfield, ND.
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