6+ day, 11+ hour 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…...

3+ week, 3+ day 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, 11+ hour 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…...