Word: dak
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Irene Streeter McLean Devils Lake, N. Dak...
...Anderberg, 40, the gavel-pounding auctioneer and co-owner of Miller Livestock Sales Co. in Miller, S. Dak., business this summer has been altogether too good. Since June, Anderberg has sold nearly 5,000 head of cattle per week to packers, feed-lot owners and out-of-state cattlemen, almost five times the average during a normal summer. But business is not normal anywhere in South Dakota this summer. Parched by the worst drought in 42 years, the prairies are yellow and burnt, and at least half of the state's oats, wheat and barley cash crops have been...
From the start, both his times and his temperament have cast shadows across Sevareid, the all-American believer in simple faiths, decent instincts and great men. A cosmopolite from Velva (pop. 1,241), N. Dak., he was born into a bleak prairie universe whose "skyline offered nothing to soothe the senses." The grandson of a Norwegian immigrant, he inherited the official optimism of a pioneer, but also the matchless pessimism of an old-fashioned Lutheran. His father had to move the family to Minneapolis when the bank he worked for went broke during the droughts of the late 1920s...
...Dakota. Given leeway by the Tribune, Magnuson wandered over his territory, reporting spot news and old frontier tales alike from Tuesday to Friday and protecting his favorites on Saturday, when he took over as night city editor. One favorite, says the soft-spoken Magnuson, "came out of Deadwood, S. Dak., where Wild Bill Hickok was shot to death in a card game." During Magnuson's time, the town "got itself a new, eager-beaver district attorney who closed down all the local brothels. That sent Deadwood into a rage, particularly the mothers, who were grateful to the bawds...
...July 3. The following day, President Ford will address the passengers in the 60 official wagons and approximately 2,000 other travelers. The Pennsylvania Bicentennial Commission sponsored an official wagon from each state, plus ten escort wagons. Wagon trains originating in Elaine, Wash., Pomona, Calif., Houston, Fort Mandan, N. Dak., Atlanta and Augusta, Me., are bound for Valley Forge fueled by horse and mule power, as well as a resurgent pioneer fever. TIME Correspondent Madeleine Nash caught up with a contingent of wagons at Tecumseh, Mich., and found spirits high. Her report...