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Mobridge

• sparks of sound • Reigstad School • Sunshine State • First Baptist • buffalo bones sold, $14 per ton • 1931: drought, depression, dust storms • steel and concrete span turbid stream • West End Tavern • the railroad workgang rests • Oh roily Missouri! glacier-born stream born • Becker’s Tas-Tee Bakery • Bridge City baseball • Burns Bar & Barbershop • ring-neck pheasants reign • Arikara gardens of cultivated corn, pumpkins, beans • WWI dead: Harley Parker, Ole Romslo • Camp Pontis, Company K • Wind-rolled Russian thistle • Fool Soldier Rescue • library’s magic lantern lectures • alluvial plain with windbreaks of cottonwood, willow, elm • White Eagle Service Station • Prohibition’s blind pigs • Railroad Roundhouse: all punching shall be accurately done • Petra Olson’s Rooming House • The Hiawatha • Henry Honkaeva’s Mobridge Grill • livery & feed; livestock bought & sold • sandhogs suffering from the bends • Swanson Creamery • crude cabins, sod shanties, slabs stamped firm and chinked with clay • purple cornflower • chop suey and noodles at Soo-Hoo Joe’s Chicago Café • Sitting Bull Stampede • Truman’s whistle-stop campaign •1880s: Swedes, Danes, Norwegians •Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows • kerosene stove that dried ladies’ hair • yellow-painted highway stones • bullboats, keelboats, steamboats, hospital ship • Titonwan council fires • pheasant sandwiches at The Beanery • Bridge Citians: plungers, drifters, grifters, and solid citizens • pasque flower• Meta Hellriegel’s women’s outfitters •Howe’s murals: Calf Woman & The Mystic Pipe, The Sun Dance • from an iron horse to bucking broncos• Snow Queens• Grand Crossing • Dean’s Drive-In • George Maniotis’ Billiards• skeleton key, skeleton deer, skeleton town below blue waves• wind rushes, buffalo grasses flat against sodden ground • ten-kilowatt dynamo with gasoline engine furnishes electric light • Sakakawea • United Methodist • Milwaukee Railroad’s End of the Line: March 31, 1982 •

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