2020 North Dakota – part 1: Jamestown and a link to Kevin Costner
So what do we call a trip that takes us north close to the Canadian border and then a little west? The title we came up with is Northern Plains,...
2020 North Dakota – part 2: Jamestown and all you want to know about buffalo/bison and how to build a tipi
Jamestown’s city fathers wanted tourists to come to their city, so they made bison their marketing draw. In 1959, they commissioned a 26-foot-tall, 60-ton concrete giant to stand watch over Jamestown in...
2020 North Dakota – part 3: Jamestown’s frontier village, Louis L’Amour, and Dakota Thunder
On top of a hill overlooking Jamestown next to the National Buffalo Museum (previous post), is the Frontier Village, a bit of the Old West in this recreation of a...
2020 North Dakota – part 4: Jamestown and a look back at the Cold War
During the 1960s and 70s, as you may remember depending on how old you are, the U.S. and the USSR were locked in a Cold War that didn’t have a...
2020 North Dakota – part 5: Jamestown and a look at the Cold War, lunch in a small town, and the countryside
About 8 miles from the command facility is the launch silo for one of the Minuteman missiles from the Cold War that’s controlled from Oscar-Zero. There’s nothing around here, just...