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This book contains more than 800 photographs and hundreds of stories on the colorful city of Minot and the surrounding area of Ward County. This is truly a history book covering Minot and North Dakota using historic photographs and words to present the stories. The book also features more than 70 huge double-page spread photographs showing the smallest of details. This book highlights through stories and photographs many of Minot's early residents that raised Minot from Erik Ramstad's hay field along the Mouse River into a thriving boom town nicknamed the "Magic City." The book highlights hundreds of photographs of city views and streets. The book covers county and city law enforcement, the Women's Christian Temperance Union, bootlegging, vice, incredible crimes from robbery to murder, the Minot Fire Department and major fires, "Operation Haylift" during the winter of 1948-49, Life Magazine's visit to Minot State Teachers College in 1941, the United Nations Military Staff hunting trip to Minot in 1946. Streets, sewer and power, the discovery of coal and coal mining, early Minot businesses and industries, fairs, carnivals, circuses, parades and celebrations, Minot education, famous people from Minot and the area, recreation and entertainment, hunting, the first radio station in Minot, the "Great Depression," and America goes to war in 1941.
Minot, North Dakota and Area History Vol. 4 "1960s & 1970s" is a 9 x 12, 536-page, hard-cover book. The book contains more than 1,100 photographs and captions as well many stories that take you "back to the sixties and seventies." The book also features more than 61 huge double-page spread photographs. This book takes you back to a time of change and turbulence of the "Sixties and Seventies," through photographs that provide vivid memories of growing up and what life was like in this time era. The book features large photographs of city views and streets and the 1960s culture and fashions. Photo memories provide a view of growing up in the "1960s and 1970s." Once chapter is dedicated to the incredible and news making year of "1969." Beginning with the controversial teachers strike, followed by the "1969 flood, and ending with "Zip to Zap," all of these events made national news. A precursor to Woodstock, the Zap event was studied by the creators of Woodstock. Special events such as the Minot visits by President Nixon, Vice President Spiro Agnew and Lawrence Welk are relived through wonderful historic photos. Also highlighted are the North Dakota visit by President John F. Kennedy only two months before he was assassinated and the 1965 world movie premier, "The Great Sioux Massacre," was held at the Empire Theater. Drive-ins, pizza and taco restaurants are featured, including Sammy's Pizza, Henry's, King Leo's, Auto Dine, A&W, Daddy-O and many more, MInot indoor and outdoor theatres, the Trestle Valley Ski Resort, the Minot Mallards, garage Bands featuring, "The Embermen Five," "Tracers," "Trenchmen" and the "Road Runners" are also highlighted.
Traces the state's history from the formation of the land itself to the mid-1960's.