7/3/2013: On this date in 1908, Joseph and Estelle Cordner were busy celebrating the birth of their daughter Marie just two days before. Born on the family farm near Moffit, Marie later moved to Bismarck, graduating from Bismarck High School in 1926. In 1938, she married James Tyler in Poplar, Montana.
2/2/2010: On a warm sunny day in the spring of 1884, Theodore Roosevelt stood on the banks of the Little Missouri River in Medora watching a determined young cowboy struggle to break a wild horse. The bucking bronco kicked violently down the bank to the river, trying to dismount its rider. But just as the horse reached the water's edge, its front hooves sank into the sand. The horse toppled mid-buck, and its rider hurtled face-first into the river. The dogged young rider was John Goodall, a true cowboy of North Dakota's old west.
11/27/2009: Joan Hecker, Miss Rodeo North Dakota, represented the state at the Miss Rodeo America pageant in Las Vegas on this day in 1962. Hecker, of Belfield, had won not only the Miss Rodeo pageant that year, but also the state barrel racing championship.
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“I’m projecting 16,000 visitors this year, and I think we’ll hit that pretty easily,” North Dakota Cowboy Hall of Fame Executive Director Rick Thompson said.