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Your Guide To:
Bismarck North Dakota
Your Guide to Hotels, Restaurants, Tickets, Tours and More!
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About Bismarck
A land of fertile soil, untapped coal and oil reserves, rolling prairies, and close-knit communities, North Dakota has lost little of its frontier spirit over the years. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the capital city, Bismarck. Named after a German Kaiser in an attempt to encourage investment in its neophyte... [read more]
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Bismarck Factoid
Famous visitors to the Bismarck area are not a recent development. In fact, history shows that the first "celebrities" to visit the area were of the frontier variety. Three of them, in particular, Prince Maximilian, Karl Bodmer, and George Catlin spent considerable time in the region, especially at nearby Fort Clark. Maximilian of Wied was of German royal descent and had an affinity for exploring and studying the tribes of the Northern Plains. The Swiss-born and Paris-trained Bodmer was a noted artist who traveled with Prince Maximilian and captured the vastness of the Western landscape on canvass. Catlin, a native Pennsylvanian, was a self-taught artist whose subject matter focused on Native Americans.
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