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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
General George Armstrong Custer and his wife, Elizabeth "Libbie" Bacon Custer, lived at Fort Lincoln during the 1870s, when the Civil War hero was stationed there. Aside from being the couple's last home together, the fort is also legendary for serving as the launching pad for General Custer's infamous campaign against the Lakota and Cheyenne. On 25 June 1876, Custer led 210 men in an attack on a village near the Little Bighorn only to find thousands of Lakota, Cheyenne, and Arapaho warriors waiting to decimate them. Ironically, this major tactical blunder is often depicted as one of the most heroic scenes in American military history – "Custer's Last Stand."
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