St. Vincent Memories

"The term was finished in two and a half days, and the balance of last day, awaiting the arrival of the train south, was spent fishing...

Huron City (1883 Plat Map) Source:  HistoricMapWorks.com I 've written about Huron City a few times here before; and of course C...

I t all started with a trade:  One hat, for one bottle of whiskey... If there's one thing I've learned writing this blog, it...

I 've been reading this book about Enos Stutsman titled Attorney for the Frontier . Ever since I came across "Stuts", as hi...

T he last time we saw Daniel F. Brawley , he was conducting some rather underhanded business tactics against another resident named Na...

Competition for political and economic power between the emerging territorial cities was common in the early days, even between Pembina and...

In March 1899, an altercation occurred late in the evening outside a St. Vincent saloon at closing time.  The end result caused the death...

Ernest Gunerius shares some more memories... When my father purchased the Wardwell house in 1933, I was presented with a boys dream come ...

Liquor running. It has a long history in our region. As a result of prohibition in the United States, a chain of liquor warehouses was est...

A recent Associated Press article states: PEMBINA, N.D. — New technology is being installed at the U.S.-Canada border crossing at Pembina , ...

Here is a photo of William Henneberry (left) and Lester Eddington standing by Henneberry's bullet-riddled Paige after the encounter wit...

From Clarence Bingham comes this story of life as a Customs Officer back in 1950s Pembina (and surrounding area...) I went to work for t...

A native of Maine, born December 23, 1843, of American parentage, the career of Frank A. Wardwell of Pembina , has been an eventful one, and...

Judson LaMoure was the Nestor of the public men of Dakota - [140] years ago he was a public official, serving as sub-agent to the Brule Sio...

...the longevity record [belongs to] Judge William Kneeshaw, who served in the Seventh Judicial District and the Second Judicial District...

Ten Nights in a Bar-Room, and What I Saw There , by Timothy Shay Arthur was a temperance novel published in 1854. It was one of the influe...

The quote in the excerpt above is from the journal of a real-life, anonymous fur trader who worked in the Pembina/St. Vincent area, a littl...

...they got nothing from the Government and they took those goods in order save themselves from starvation. Below is a fascinating case in ...