HeyJaredSteve Hoffbeck
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- Sep 7, 2026
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September 7: Buffalo Graveyard, Devils Lake (opens the original)
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It doesn’t happen very often that a large lakebed largely dries out. Yet that is what happened at Devils Lake. North Dakota’s biggest natural lake was full of water when the town of Devils Lake was founded in 1882, with the lake sitting at 1,439.08 feet above sea level. But after that, the water level dropped, decade after decade, until Devils Lake reached its lowest point in recorded history, resting at 1,401 feet in 1940. The lake had fallen 38 feet in 40 years! The always-brackish, salty wate
August 3: Maza Meteor (opens the original)
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If you ever see a meteor in the nighttime sky, you will likely be either speechless with wonder or poetic in awe. It is unlikely you would be indifferent. For 62-year-old William W. Barrett, words came easily as he described a summer Saturday-night meteor display in 1894. W. W. Barrett (1832–1914) had a country home he called “Sylvaton Ranch,” located five miles east of Churchs Ferry in Ramsey County. It was nearly 10:30 p.m. when a “burning meteor ... approached the earth at an angle of about 5
July 28: Heavy Pulling (opens the original)
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Modern-day people don't know much about oxen, unless they refer to someone as a big ox or being strong as an ox. Some might know about Red River ox carts or maybe Babe the Blue Ox's statue in Bemidji. However, oxen were useful for farmers in North Dakota's early days as draft animals, pulling stumps, loads of hay, and the heavy work of breaking new farmland with heavy plows. Although oxen were powerful and sure-footed, they were slow when compared to horses. Nevertheless, new settlers in Dakota
July 16: Treasure in an Old Tin Can (opens the original)
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Have you ever found a green dollar bill just lying there on the street? Have you ever discovered a ten-dollar bill caught along a chain-link fence, where the wind had blown it, and picked up that paper money, slipped it into your pocket, thinking, "Finders keepers, losers weepers"? If you have found a small treasure along your way, you experienced the same thrill of joy felt by three boys in Minot on a summer day in July of 1944. These three boys, Darrell Niemeyer, Leonard Popow, and Gerald Gaus
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