1+ day, 10+ hour ago  (439+ words) North Dakota election officials on Thursday will start mailing absentee ballots for the June primary election. To vote absentee, voters must first send an application for a ballot to their county election official. Some North Dakota counties automatically send applications…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago  (279+ words) 1925 was a rough year for fires. It began in late March, when two major prairie fires swept across North and South Dakota, causing extensive damage. Livestock, hay, crops, and farm buildings were lost. By the end of the month, about…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (508+ words) In Dakota Territory, the outbreak of spelling bees in the late 1880s was commonly referred to as a "craze." Since publication of The Hoosier Schoolmaster in 1871 the craze, epidemic, or infatuation with spelling bees, as it was variously called by cultural…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (297+ words) Do your ever wonder what the winter landscape looked like on the prairie long ago when there were no farmsteads, transmission lines, and the few trees that were present were largely restricted to the floodplains of major rivers? There are…...