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James Butler ("Wild Bill") Hickok was holding aces and eights when Jack McCall shot him point-blank during a poker game in Deadwood, Dakota Territory. The fatal date was Aug. 2, 1876. Hickok did not have a chance to draw for either a full house or his life. The bullet went in the left side of his head and came out through his right cheek, leaving a crosslike exit mark. Pete Dexter's novel is packed with grisly details (the severed head of an outlaw, the emergency treatment of gunshot wounds and syphilis), although not all agree with history. McCall...
...business student-sponsored conference drew speakers including Gov. George Sinner of North Dakota, agricultural economists from various universities, and a Nebraska farming family, who suggested a variety of solutions to the current farm debt crisis...
Sinner said that the state-owned banking system of North Dakota was successful in easing the farmers' plight within the state because, unlike commercial banks, it could manipulate the interest rate it granted in favor of farmers...
However, the symposium's moderator, Cathleen Kelley, said the non-profit banking system will not solve the crisis. "If nothing is done [to allieviate the farming situation], it will destroy whole communities in North Dakota," she said...
...Colorado College 1953 Michigan Vic Heyliger 7-3 Minnesota 1954 Rensselaer Ned Harkness 5-4* Minnesota 1955 Michigan Vic Heyliger 5-3* Colorado College 1956 Michigan Vic Heyliger 7-5 Michigan Tech 1957 Colorado College Thomas Bedecki 13-6 Michigan 1958 Denver Murray Armstrong 6-2 North Dakota 1959 North Dakota Bob May 4-3 Michigan State 1960 Denver Murray Armstrong 5-3 Michigan Tech 1961 Denver Murray Armstrong 12-2 St. Lawrence 1962 Michigan Tech John MacInnes 7-1 Clarkson 1963 North Dakota Barney Thorndycraft 6-5 Denver 1964 Michigan Allen Renfrew 6-3 Denver 1965 Michigan Tech John...