by Mike Kopp | Dec 12, 2022 | Billings County, Custer Trail Auto Tour, Dickinson, Medora, North Dakota Badlands, North Dakota scenery, North Dakota winter, outdoors, Places to go, Quality of Life, Road Trip, Theodore Roosevelt National Park, Wildlife
Stay warm while you are on a winter road trip Yeah, I don’t want to freeze my face in negative temperatures, either – and especially not if the wind is blowing. Yikes! So, let’s consider a warm winter road trip. We suggest staying warm on one of these road trips in...
by Mike Kopp | Nov 27, 2022 | Little Missouri National Grasslands, North Dakota, North Dakota history, outdoors
Turkeys are not supposed to be here…but here they are! 1. 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...
by Mike Kopp | Nov 26, 2022 | History, Killdeer, Medora, North Dakota Badlands, North Dakota history
6 exciting books about the Badlands: myths, and legends, lynchings, murders and killer blizzards that shaped the people of the North Dakota Badlands. 6 “must-read” exciting books about the Badlands What if you could stand on a Badlands hill and see the old...
by Mike Kopp | Oct 15, 2022 | Billings County, History, Little Missouri River, Medora, Native American, North Dakota history, Theodore Roosevelt National Park
The spooky stories Are they true? You decide. Okay, I don’t know how to separate truth from fiction, superstition from the truth, or fable from fact. But I still like to put my ear to the ground to hear what’s rumbling out there. I may not agree, but I...
by Mike Kopp | Oct 7, 2022 | History, North Dakota history, Places to go, Williams County, Williston
It’s all in the cemetery records. Killed at Fort Buford. A brief history of Fort Buford — Murder and Suicide (Editor’s note. This murder suicide is one of several that happened at the Fort. A Halloween tour of the Fort’s cemetery is planned to...
