St. Vincent Memories

Matters of jurisdiction happened quite often in our area, due to the fact that we are close to an international border, as well as two stat...

Louis Edgar Rogers, aka Jim Barry, was born in St. Vincent, Minnesota. J im Barry was a pugilist...and a mystery. His real name was L...

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...

John Stranger - Back row, middle A MEMOIR OF A LIFE,  FOR BETTER OR WORSE By John A. Stranger CHAPTER ONE Beginnings...

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

B ack in the day, just as now, lawmen worked together between Canada and America.  There was less red tape then, although that was there,...

The story I'm about to share has been shared here before .  While the first version was full of character (based on solid research), th...

S muggling contraband is a long tradition along borders, including the border area around St. Vincent ... Bold Opium Smugglers Confis...

St. Vincent School in its early days... A lot of tramps took possession of the school house at St. Vincent , Minnesota, and after getting...

P resident Cleveland once asked Bishop Whipple what would be the effect of making the Indians voters. Then Bishop Whipple told him that it...

Adz :  The murder weapon G ilbert Godon has appeared in this blog before - the first time, as a character in a novel based on fact ; ...

Joseph O. Lemay [Photo courtesy: Manitoba Historical Society] Joseph Lemay , Esq. - Judge, postmaster and collector of United States cu...

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

W ith this chapter, Dear Readers, BORDERTOWNS comes to a close. 1 This was the last [complete] book written by Chuck Walker , and once ag...