by Mike Kopp | Oct 30, 2022 | ghosts, Montana, North Dakota, Snowden Bridge
Is Mondak haunted? That spooky feeling you get between the Snowden bridge and the Mondak town site may be from this double murder and lynching. It’s a two-part story gleaned from a stack of old newspaper accounts. JC takes his troubles north JC had been in...
by Mike Kopp | Jan 31, 2021 | ghosts, McKenzie County, MHA Nation, North Dakota Badlands, North Dakota history, outdoors, Photography, Places to go, Snowden Bridge
Planning your 2021 vacations and weekend explorations? You’re in good company. More than half of all American families say they are now planning their year’s excursions. They hope 2021 will be better than 2020. A good place to start is with these items such as...
by Mike Kopp | Jan 8, 2021 | Hike, History, Maah Daah Hey, MHA Nation, Montana, outdoors, Places to go, Road Trip, Snowden Bridge
For your 2021 Calendar — 4 more of the top Healthy Badland Attractions 2020 Badlands Attraction Goals Carry Over to 2021 There are places in the Badlands where you will have all the isolation you want. Like a fellow from Wisconsin told me on New Years Day,...
by Mike Kopp | Nov 21, 2020 | History, outdoors, Road Trip, Snowden Bridge, Things To Do, Yellowstone River
The Bridge to the Calypso Trail in the Terry Badlands As we wrote a few days ago (click here), the North Dakota Badlands has two counterparts to make a Badlands Trio, both in Montana. Besides the rock formations, they also have one other thing in common:...
by Mike Kopp | Feb 7, 2019 | History, Missouri River, Montana, North Dakota, North Dakota history, Places to go, Snowden Bridge, Then and now
The twin lift bridges at Fairview and Mondak attract a lot of interest — and always have. They are unique in many ways and very impressive. Both are easy to get to, winter or summer. Roads and highways drive alongside the bridges, or underneath. Bill Shemorry,...
by Mike Kopp | Oct 29, 2018 | History, Missouri River, Montana, North Dakota history, Snowden Bridge
How did this happen? How did he get here? JC ran from Iowa and Nebraska trying to get free of scenes like this, but he could not shake his own deeds. Now, two men dead, and JC is on the run. JC gave up. The brush was thick and the posse was angry. He ran as far as...
