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We’ve all heard about Bullalo Bill Cody, Lawrence Welk, Charles Lindberg, Sinclair Lewis, Frank Lloyd Wright, and other Midwesterners whose fame gained a national status. Our aim is to bring you the histories,the stories, and records of those achievements which were never really appreciated beyond the local community.
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Manitou School
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GhostsofNorthDakota.com
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Wylora Christianson submitted the following photo of Manitou School. The town of Manitou was an early settlement in North Dakota, having been established in 1887. Peak population was 43 residents. This school is all that remains. CLICK PHOTO TO ENLAR
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Gene Vidal - father of Gore Vidal
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SMALL-TOWN BOY MAKES LIFE INTERESTING
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What do Amelia Earhart, Al Gore, Jackie Kennedy and Gore Vidal have in common? Through complicated permutations of marriages, divorces, affairs, and old-fashioned family relationships, they all interconnect with a young man born 0n the prairie.
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They Survived the Titanic
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One man who lived to tell the tale and ended up living in Onida, South Dakota
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Oskar Hedman, Survivor
Oscar Hedman arrived from Sweden 1905 and settled in Beach, North Dakota. In addition to some routine types of employment, he became affiliated with various land promoters and real estate speculators. At the age of 27 he was
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Vern Miller - Sheriff, Moonshiner, Hit-man
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How did the career of a small-town sheriff from South Dakota promote the creation of the modern FBI? Well, for one thing, he became a gangster.
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The earliest years in Vern Miller’s biography remains unclear. It is reported that he was born in Kimball, South Dakota in 1896. Not much is known about his early years, but he was a resident of Huron, South Dakota by 1914. His life appears ordinar
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Remembering That Infamous Day
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South Dakota Magazine
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By John Andrews
It’s believed that only five South Dakotans who were at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941 are still alive, and two of them will be at Deadwood’s Mount Moriah Cemetery Monday for a remembrance ceremony beginning at 11 a.m.
Steve Warren
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Turton Mystery image, 1922
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Origins of image uknown.
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Many of our friends and neighbors are curious about the origin of this very colorful and well crafted image that is painted on an old wooden grain storage building here in Turton, South Dakota.
The gentleman who moved it onto his property died
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Gangsters Lived Here?
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We were in the Kimball, South Dakota area doing more research on the early life of Verne Miller
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We were in the Kimball, South Dakota area doing more research on the early life of Verne Miller (The notorious gangster involved in the Kansas City Massacre) and were tipped by a local resident that in the 1930s a farm northeast of town was a hideout
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The saga of Oscar Micheaux
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Filmmaker of South Dakota
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The saga of Oscar Micheaux in South Dakota is a fantastic portrayal of one man’s imagination, perseverance, and entrepreneurial energy— one of the best examples that one can find among all the pioneering tales of the Dakotas. What was a black America
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Rose Bowl Running Back
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QUIET BUSINESSMAN PLAYED IN 1916 BOWL GAME
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I was about twelve and devoted to every kind of sport; I played basketball and baseball at every opportunity; I listened to college football; I was a Cleveland Indians fan; I knew the entire roster of the Minneapolis Lakers. So, when one day I overhe
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Sinclair Lewis - Nobel Prize Winner
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Sinclar Lewis was born in Minnesota and became the first American to win the Nobel prize in Literature.
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Ernest Lawrence Nobel prize winner
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Won the Nobel prize in physics in 1939.
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Theodore Roosevelt Nobel Winner
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Theodore Roosevelt, who lived in North Dakota at times, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1906.
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