2020 North Dakota – part 18: Turtle Mountain’s high points
One of our observations of North Dakota is that the people who live here love their state and want to show it off. When Barney was first investigating what to...
2020 North Dakota – part 19: Williston’s offer of respite and the discovery of oil in ND
As we looked at the state of North Dakota to plan this trip, we knew we wanted to see the northern part of Theodore Roosevelt National Park; the closest town...
2020 North Dakota – part 20: Williston’s Bakken Formation and all about drilling for oil
We all know that drilling for oil has made the U.S. energy-independent, but so much goes into drilling that the process and the terms are like a foreign language to...
2020 North Dakota – part 21: rivers, fur trading and military forts, buffalo soldiers, and Labor Day
When we start exploring a new area, I like to have a bird’s eye view of what we’ll be seeing. In this post we’ll be looking primarily at Fort Union...
2020 North Dakota – part 22: where the Missouri and the Yellowstone Rivers come together
As we’ve mentioned earlier, history follows geology, which eventually means rivers. In the northwest corner of ND where the Missouri and Yellowstone Rivers meet, trade happened early with those living...