This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Medora and the Bad Lands Surveyed in North Dakota History
A historic paper outlines Medora in Billings County as a center of early settlement, ranching, and industry. It recounts the Bad Lands formation by coal fires and rain, Roosevelt and de Mores in the early town, the cantonment, hotels, and the Medora paper and stage line, plus future farming and brick industries near Medora.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Federation of Women’s Clubs
Minot
M. H. Jewell
Bismarck
Medora
Billings
Lewis and Clark
Tyre
Marquis de Mores
Northern Pacific
Little Missouri
Sixth Infantry
Steven Baker
Seventh Infantry
Combs
Gorringe
United States Navy
Harry Pender
John Pender
London
Eber H. Bly
Northern Pacific Railroad
Fargo
Pyramid Park
Gorringe and Pender
Theodore Roosevelt
de Mores
Roosevelt
Pender
Alexandria
Egypt
New York City
Central Park
Marquis
Deadwood
Black Hills
J. W. Foley
James W. Foley
Laurier
North Dakota
France
Souhian Desert
Cannes
Duke of
Valombrosa
Beach
Sentinel Butte
Hebron
Dickinson
Bitter Creek
Helena
Deer Lodge
Gallatin Valley
Oregon
California
Northwest