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 | 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...
by Mike Kopp | Oct 26, 2018 | History, Missouri River, North Dakota history, Places to go, Snowden Bridge
JC takes his troubles north JC had been in trouble before. It’s why he was here at the mancamp, just south of the Canadian border in the winter of 1913-1914. That mess in Kansas may or may not have been his fault, but he knew fault didn’t matter. He was a colored...