North Dakota

From steamboats chugging through Dakota Territory to the intercontinental missiles housed at the Minot Airforce Base, history hangs in the balance in our North Dakota history books. Take it in over a cold one at a Bismarck brewpub or take your mind off it entirely with a nostalgic shopping spree at Herbst Department Store. With Louis L’Amour setting the scene in Jamestown and rival land barons raising the stakes in Fargo, feverishly turn the pages of North Dakota history.
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The Montana Stranglers in Dakota Territory
The Montana Stranglers in Dakota Territory
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The Montana Stranglers in Dakota Territory

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The saga of The Montana Stranglers in Dakota Territory embodies the violence and vigilantism of the Old West


In the early 1880s, desperate characters left over from the fur trade began robbing arriving settlers in the wilderness of Eastern Montana and Northwestern Dakota Territory. Gangs of horse thieves sprang out of camps from the Musselshell in Montana, along the Missouri into Dakota Territory, up into Mouse River-Dogden Butte country and ending at Turtle Mountain. Cattlemen and homesteaders formed vigilance committees, including Granville Stuart's Montana Stranglers, resulting in the violent death of fifty-four people from September 1883 to December 1884. They weren't all guilty and there were probably more. Author Ron Berget shares this thoroughly researched, true story of the Montana Stranglers' bloody pursuits throughout the northern plains.

The Montana Stranglers in Dakota Territory