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The date was October 1, and the place was Fargo, North Dakota; it was the famous Gorman Incident, in which a pilot fought a "duel of death" with a UFO. The pilot was George F. Gorman, a twenty-five-year-old second lieutenant in the North Dakota Air National Guard. It was eight-thirty in the evening and Gorman was coming into Fargo from a cross-country flight.
When we entered our ugly attic rooms and tumbled wearily into our hard beds, we retained very little of our momentary sense of victory. Our carefree school life was ended. Our stern education in life had begun. The Land of the Dakotas The movement of settlers toward Dakota had now become an exodus, a stampede.
Here behind us rolls another sandy stream, dry as its Dakota name implies, Mini Pusa: Dry Water, and to our right and rear is their sandy confluence.
He has become a teetotaler, and promises to turn out quite a virtuous character. She hinted at something which I didn't know about that happened at the trial it was too bad of you to burn those papers and said he was going to Dakota, across the border. She was almost frozen, had only fall clothes on, and she was very hungry.
He was tall and very black-haired, and he "jollied" the girls. It was said that twenty girls in Joralemon and Wakamin, and a "grass widow" in St. Hilary, wrote to him. He was now a freshman in Plato College, Plato, Minnesota. He had brought home with him his classmate, Howard Griffin, whose people lived in South Dakota and were said to be wealthy.
Immediately her spirits rose and she was able to smile quietly at Langford when he continued: "Dakota will be hung, of course; decency demands it. When Duncan came to me with the news I sent him instantly to Lazette to inform the sheriff of what had happened. Undoubtedly he will take Dakota into custody at once."
Passengers for Dakota, Montana, or the Northwest will have an overcoat and sealskin cap thrown in with all tickets sold on or after the above date." The great republic cannot yet take itself seriously. Let us hope the humors of it will last another generation.
He had settled them on the land, and taught them to farm, while, for the community had prospered at first when Western wheat was dear, it had taken ten years to bring home to him the fact that men who dined ceremoniously each evening and spent at least a third of their time in games and sport, could not well compete with the grim bushmen from Ontario, or the lean Dakota plowmen who ate their meals in ten minutes and toiled at least twelve hours every day.
She was silent for some time, then she murmured an original defense. "The cross thoughts come in Indian, and I speak them out that way. Dakota is my own language, and it tells me how to scold just right." "No, dear, just wrong," was the reply.
All political parties endorsed the amendment, Republicans and Democrats making it a part of their platforms. In June Mrs. Nettie Rogers Shuler, corresponding secretary of the National Association, came to South Dakota and with Mrs. S. V. Ghrist, vice-president of the State League, and Mrs. McMahon, a school of methods was held in the principal towns.
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