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Road Trip Heads for North Dakota

A Great American Road Trip

Bulletin: Here’s a fabulous mural for North Dakota, created by James Rosenquist for the Plains Museum.

North Dakota Pioneer statue in front of the North Dakota State Capitol in Bismarck, the state's tallest building at 17 stories.

Destination: North Dakota

Movie: Fargo (1996) Produced by the Coen Brothers

A GUEST POST by Sam Lowe

Author of Mysteries and Legends of Arizona: True Stories of the Unsolved and Unexplained (Mysteries and Legends Series)

KENSAL, N.D. — I return here once in a while even though it no longer looks like the place where I spent my youth. For example, Garfield Johnson’s Tavern is gone. My brothers and I devoted many of our pre-teen hours devising schemes that would fool Garfield into thinking we were weathered old farmers so he’d sell us a beer. Continue reading Road Trip Heads for North Dakota