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    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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    Charles Franklin Martell: Pre-1940’s Ranching Division nominee 2019

    February 13, 2019

    Biography of Charles Franklin Martell

    February 28, 2015

    Biography of Andrew J. Nohle

    February 28, 2015
  • Native Americans,  The Cowboy Chronicle,  Western History

    Returning Home: the Tragedy and Triumph of the Great American Buffalo

    November 13, 2020 /

    Published in: The Cowboy Chronicle Volume 24 Issue 6 November 2020 Publication of the North Dakota Cowboy Hall of Fame With profound joy and a great sense of a spiritual connection they watched the animals step out of the trucks and onto Tribal lands once again, greeting them with traditional welcoming ceremonies. The buffalo and their way of life had been gone for generations, but the longing remained in the people’s souls. The relationship between the buffalo and native people is deep, personal, and ethereal. While the stories and sacred ceremonies had been retained, the youth could not completely understand the kindred relationship because they had not been able to…

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    War Bonnet!

    August 13, 2018

    The Legacy of the Horse in the Lives of the Great Plains People

    August 25, 2016

    Necessities for a Nomadic Life

    August 18, 2019
  • The Cowboy Chronicle

    North Dakota Cowboy Hall of Fame Podcast

    November 13, 2020 /

    I was interviewed by Bill Palanuk, Media Director at the North Dakota Cowboy Hall of Fame, after my article- “Little Misery”: The Rise and Fall of a Forgotten Badlands Town, was published. This aired on October 21, 2020 North Dakota Cowboy Hall of Fame  Any time you pick up an issue of The Cowboy Chronicles newsletter, you have undoubtedly read articles written by Mary Pat Martell Jones. Mary’s passion for history is very evident in her articles and also on her fabulous website writinforthebrand.com which is maintained by her son Michael which she greatly appreciates.We’ll get to know Mary just a bit better today here on Cowboy Chronicles – The…

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    Branding Across Time

    November 4, 2019

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

    October 27, 2016

    In Good Company

    February 13, 2019
  • Ghost Towns,  History,  North Dakota History,  The Cowboy Chronicle

    “Little Misery”: The Rise and Fall of a Forgotten Badlands Town

    October 18, 2020 /

    Published in the Cowboy Chronicle Publication of the North Dakota Cowboy Hall of Fame Volume 24 Issue 5 Newspapers from New York to Paris and London in the late 1870’s and early 1880’s were abuzz about the Dakota cattle boom on the northern plains of America.  Books, such as James Brisbin’s The Beef Bonanza or How to get Rich on the Plains (1871) and Trans Missouri Stock Raising; the Pasture Lands of North America by Hiram Latham ( 1881), fueled the excitement for the expanding cattle industry.  In 1879 The Bismarck Tribune proclaimed that that western North Dakota possessed “the best grazing lands in the world”.  A writer for the…

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    Booming Settlement to Ghost Town: Whispers of the Living History of Charbonneau

    January 29, 2015
  • The Cowboy Chronicle,  Western History

    Just a Bit About the Bit

    June 14, 2020 /

    A good relationship between the horse and his rider is all about communication.  A horse can sense fear, anger and competence, and will react accordingly. However, a good ride whether for work or pleasure, requires effective communication between the horse and rider.  Since ancient times the bit, in one form or another, has been the instrument to help send these messages.   The horse is the only animal we control by putting something inside their mouth. The ancient man’s experience of controlling a pack or riding animal before the domestication of the horse, was by various forms of nose pressure. This method would not work for the equine as its…

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    Booming Settlement to Ghost Town: Whispers of the Living History of Charbonneau

    January 29, 2015

    Just One More Ride

    December 9, 2018

    Harold Schafer, Mr. Bubble and the Legacy of Medora

    April 9, 2015
  • 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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    “Come and Get It”

    May 30, 2018

    The Wandering Man

    June 4, 2019

    Biography of Charles Franklin Martell

    February 28, 2015
  • North Dakota Today,  The Cowboy Chronicle

    Sentinel on the Prairie: Celebrating Twenty-five Years of the Preservation and Protection of North Dakota History

    May 28, 2020 /

    He had been thinking about this for a while now.  So many stories and moments, friendships and connections were passing through time. They drifted like the wind across the prairies, and he hated the thought they could all be lost. Countless hours were spent visiting with folks and embracing all the memories and history he could. The stories they told may not have been notable markers in history, but they embodied the character and the essence of the generations.  These moments in time woven together were the fabric of America’s western history and an important part of a great national epic. Those who built North Dakota, who dreamed, sacrificed and…

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    National Day of the Cowboy: Preserving Pioneer Heritage and Cowboy Culture

    May 29, 2017

    Knowing Your Past Carries You into the Future

    July 8, 2018

    The Wild Horses of Roosevelt’s Badlands

    February 24, 2018
  • Tales of the Ranch

    Rex

    April 21, 2020 /

    Where in this wide world can man find nobility without pride, friendship without envy or beauty without vanity? Here, where grace is laced with muscle and strength by gentleness confined. He serves without servility; he has fought without enmity. There is nothing so powerful, nothing less violent, there is nothing so quick, nothing more patient. England’s past has been borne on his back. All history is his industry; we are his heirs, he our inheritance. The Horse, poem by Ronald Duncan Rex was indeed noble; in stature and disposition, but he was not haughty or conceited. He knew without fail what to do, how to do it, was willing and…

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    Long Ago and Far Away; Memories of a Log Cabin

    March 25, 2015

    The Battle at Guilford Courthouse

    May 1, 2019

    A Century Since the Great War; Family Ties

    November 12, 2018
  • The Cowboy Chronicle,  Western History

    Branding Across Time

    November 4, 2019 /

    When thinking of the American West the image of a laconic individual with the requisite boots, chaps, and hat comes to mind. We envision him on long cattle drives, riding along miles and miles of fences or on a great roundup. In our minds we can see the cowboy chasing down a hapless calf, roping and wrestling it to the ground by a campfire with branding irons in the flames. Another cowboy grabs it and burns the owners mark on its hip. It’s all part of the mystique of the cowboy, some of it romanticized in art and the movies; all of it based on reality and much of it…

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    National Day of the Cowboy: Preserving Pioneer Heritage and Cowboy Culture

    May 29, 2017

    History of the Western Saddle

    January 27, 2015

    Who was Benjamin Henry?

    October 10, 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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    Biography of Charles Franklin Martell

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