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  • North Dakota Horizons magazine,  North Dakota Today

    Telling the Stories of North Dakota

    July 3, 2022 /

    Published in the Summer 2022 edition of North Dakota Horizons magazine Over a thousand years ago, a Native American carved symbols into the rocks at what is now Writing Rock Historic Site in Divide County. These were not random symbols; each had purpose, meaning, and told a story. Humans have built their cultures, preserved and passed on knowledge, communicated ideas, and entertained with storytelling since the beginning of their existence.  What began as oral tradition, evolved to stories written, acted and, in the modern world, also presented on film. Canticle Productions, a North Dakota-based film and theater production company, showcases stories that are as personal to North Dakota as the…

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    The True Facts

    July 3, 2017

    The Cowboy Doctor

    December 22, 2020

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    September 28, 2019
  • Biographies,  North Dakota History,  North Dakota Horizons magazine

    The Cowboy Doctor

    December 22, 2020 /

    Printed in North Dakota Horizons Magazine Winter 2020 https://www.ndhorizons.com/articles/88/the-cowboy-doctor.aspx On a warm day in late July 1927, all of Dickinson shut down.  Stores and businesses were empty, their doors closed. There was no heart to carry on business as usual.  Crowding the cemetery people were saying goodbye to their beloved “Cowboy Doctor.”  He didn’t just heal and console, he was a friend to almost every family in the region. He was remembered with overwhelming gratitude for his gift of love and 44 years of dedicated service to the people he came to cherish. The “Cowboy Doctor,” Victor Hugo Stickney, was born April 13, 1855. He was raised on the family…

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    Biography of George W. Nohle

    March 1, 2015

    Biography of Charles Franklin Martell

    February 28, 2015

    Lydia Langer: The Unexpected Candidate Amid 1930’s Political Scandal and Intrigue

    October 27, 2016
  • North Dakota History,  North Dakota Horizons magazine,  North Dakota Today

    North Dakota Cowboy Hall of Fame Celebrates Twenty-five Years

    June 13, 2020 /

    The North Dakota Horizons magazine published a shorter version of “Sentinel on the Prairie” in their Summer 2020 edition and online. https://www.ndhorizons.com/articles/86/north-dakota-cowboy-hall-of-fame-celebrates-25-years.aspx The North Dakota Cowboy Hall of fame is celebrating its 25th anniversary. One man’s dream of preserving the stories and character of the state’s forebears has become a renowned center of western culture. Phil Baird thought about this for a long time. So many stories and moments were passing through time, drifting like the wind across the prairies. Countless hours were spent embracing all the memories and history he could. He hated the thought these stories would be lost to time. Those moments wove together the fabric of…

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    Knowing Your Past Carries You into the Future

    July 8, 2018

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    December 22, 2020

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    May 30, 2018
  • Biographies,  North Dakota Horizons magazine

    A Wandering Man: Louis L’Amour

    September 28, 2019 /

    It was a love affair that ran the course of a lifetime. Whether it was consuming, creating, or collecting, the written word permeated every aspect of his life. He spent hours in the library. As a young man traveling and working all over the world, he would find time to read multiple books per week, boasting that between 1928 and 1942 he read more than 150 books a year. It was said, as a reader, his only match may have been Theodore Roosevelt who would often read up to three books a day. He attained a personal library of well over 10,000 books, journals, periodicals and maps, a vast and…

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    The Wandering Man

    June 4, 2019

    The Cowboy Doctor

    December 22, 2020

    Biography of George W. Nohle

    March 1, 2015
  • North Dakota History,  North Dakota Horizons magazine,  North Dakota Today

    The Wild Horses of Roosevelt’s Badlands

    February 24, 2018 /

    He was an old man, arthritic and without a family band, but still wild and free.  Singlefoot was the oldest stallion living in the Theodore Roosevelt National Park (TRNP). He may have been on his own but he still found the energy to play and enjoy life. He looked out over grasslands and rolling hills interrupted by dramatic and colorful badland formations where his ancestors once roamed. The history of the plains horse dates from prehistoric times; disappearing from North America about 11,000 years ago and returning in the 1500’s with Spanish explorers.  Singlefoot and the other horses in the park descended from those brought by the Spaniards and other…

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    February 7, 2015
  • North Dakota History,  North Dakota Horizons magazine,  Tales of the Ranch

    The True Facts

    July 3, 2017 /

    There is a certain beauty in the harshness of western North Dakota winters. Winds howl across the prairie, through the coulees, and sometimes bring the effective temperature as low as forty below. Snow, not always abundant, is often a patchwork with gray and brown rather than a continuous blanket of white.  Days are short in deep winter with as little as nine hours of daylight.  Men and beasts adapt, putting on their winter coats and hunkering down for those long months until the ground thaws and grasses grow tall again. Those that survive these winters are men with resilience and determination, and animals that herd together for warmth and scratch through frozen ground.…

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    Biography of Andrew J. Nohle

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