Author Description

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