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More notable North Dakotans who used pseudonyms or changed their names

"Did You Know That" columnist Curt Eriksmoen concludes his series of famous actors, singers and others who were known by something other than their birth names.

Casper Oimoen and the 1936 Winter Olympics

2/16/2011: Back in the day, skiing was as natural as walking for many Norwegians, and when they immigrated to North Dakota, it was logical that they brought skiing and ski-jumping with them. Among them was Casper Oimoen. He became the best ski-jumper in North Dakota in the 1920s and 1930s.

Jumping Plains

11/10/2006: They were men who could fly a hundred feet across the plains of North Dakota, and all they needed to do so was a steep slope, a proper landing place, and their two wooden skis. Through the 1920s and 30s, these ski jumpers were North Dakota heroes, and many of them helped North Dakota, a state with no mountains and few hills, turn into a ski jumping center.

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