by Mary Tastad | Nov 27, 2018 | Food, History, North Dakota, Tasty Tuesday, Watford City
Best Cookbook in Western North Dakota? Cookbooks. You can collect them. You can read them. You can cook and bake the recipes they contain. But you can do more. You can envelope yourself in history and understand culture through cookbooks. North Dakota...
by Mike Kopp | Nov 26, 2018 | History, Medora, North Dakota Badlands
Sanctified Wooly Boys, Badlands Girl, move over. Sanctified, full-length feature film could be shot in Billings County next spring. Those first two films generated considerable interest in Western North Dakota, the Badlands and Medora. More attention seems to be...
by Mike Kopp | Nov 24, 2018 | Medora, North Dakota Badlands, North Dakota scenery, North Dakota winter, Snapshot Saturday, Wildlife
The Park is Open Are you looking for the perfect Badlands Christmas Card shot? The Theodore Roosevelt National Park is open and photogenic. Maybe you can get lucky and one of the stars of the park will pose with you. One a warm day, a few sleepless prairie dogs will...
by Mike Kopp | Nov 23, 2018 | Autumn, Dickinson, journal, Medora, North Dakota scenery, Road Trip
Headed down a greasy, slippery road on a warm melting day, we left our tracks on Stark County gravel roads. We headed south from South Heart looking for three landmarks: Sand Hills, Little Badlands and old a schoolhouse. One of our subjects was a request made of...
by Mike Kopp | Nov 22, 2018 | History, journal, North Dakota Badlands, outdoors, Wildlife
Immigrant Turkeys That’s right. Turkeys are not supposed to be here. North Dakota is a bit too far north of their natural historic range of Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona. It was generally assumed that North Dakota’s winters limited the ability for...