St. Vincent Memories

I 'm pretty sure you can trace the historic failings of the University of Minnesota sports teams to their choice of name:  Gophers.  In...

Alfred "Rusty" Rustad with the family's 'new' combine  [Photo Courtesy:  Rustad Family Collection] By Michael R...

1906:  My Grandparents in front of their new home... T hese are my grandparents, Elizabeth and Albert Fitzpatrick, standing outside the...

Lake Stella as sunset approaches [Courtesy:  Jamie Rustad Meagher] Sunset on Lake Stella [Courtesy:  Jamie Rustad Meagher] D...

Company 876, 20th Infantry, U.S. Army, Fort Pembina, Dakota Territory Source:  State Historical Society of North Dakota Earlier this mon...

Once found in Minnesota, but now is evidently extinct here... I n 1823, Mr. Keating noticed the Salt springs in Minnesota State and Dac...

T his past week end, my partner Bill and I went on a Minnesota safari of sorts. We packed up a lunch, put the hiking boots on, and hit the r...

One Hundred and thirty years later, nothing much has changed - opportunities bring speculators, which in turn bring opportunities to the com...

I recently posted about a very real city that is now long gone called Huron City .  That post drew responses that revealed to me that there ...

Huron City - Location: 485950N by 0971400W - was a real place that no longer exists. I grew up just a stone's throw geographically-s...

The treaty marked the last permanent major territorial loss of Continental United States, the northern most tip of the territory of Louisian...

Pembina River --The Pembina River flows from the northern part of Turtle Mountain in a rather crooked easterly course through southern Manit...

From: Democracy in America By Alexis de Tocqueville The concept of the Great American Desert had long been familiar to Americans and indee...

Marker at the International Boundary and principal meridian, Pembina area, Manitoba. In background Cree medicine man with pipe leads proces...

The prairie is an amazing place. It may seem simple, even boring, to some eyes, but there's a lot more to it than first meets the eye....

OK, so I'm slow to the party. I only now discovered a Canadian sitcom called Corner Gas (and ironically the show's series finale wa...

Weather cool and pleasant; the mercury forty-eight degrees at sunrise. This morning we rode a few miles out of town, and met the dragoons a...

This is the first of several posts taken from first-person accounts of a mid-nineteenth century expedition expedition started out in late A...

I wrote about the song featured in this video awhile back. It's an amazing song all about what it was like to be a trapper/ voyaguer ...

Mark Twain, due to financial problems, undertook a world tour in 1895. The tour began in America, and after an initial stop in Cleveland, pr...