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The State of NORTH DAKOTA has no nationally recognizable landmarks, nor is the history of the State particularly lurid or enchanting. It seems like somebody's quiet afterthought, a place to pass through. Grain silos loom on the horizons: the haystacks resemble loaves of whole wheat bread. In the summer, with the sun baking in a defiantly blue sky and the wind raking strong fingers through tall fields of golden wheat and flax, North Dakota epitomizes all things rural America. Charming, picturesque, and a bit exasperating.

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The influx of Europeans into the Dakota Territory, spurred by the Homestead Act of 1862, spawned a population and agricultural boom that lasted into the twentieth century. As in the State of South Dakota, the fertile East is more thickly settled than the west, where vast cattle and sheep ranges predominate, and it was the east that was hardest hit by the so called 500 year flood of 1997, when 1.8 million low lying acres of farmland were swamped, and the entire state was declared a disaster area. Lately, North Dakota's lawmakers, ashamed of their reputation as an arctic wasteland, have proposed that the North be dropped from the title of the State, leaving just "Dakota", a suggestion most locals passionately protest.

From Fargo North Dakota, the state's largest city, I-94 passes through the central capital of Bismarck , and on to the Bad Lands of the west, once cherished by President Theodore Roosevelt. Though the national park bearing his name is a key destination, Roosevelt would surely not be pleased about the continuing disfiguration of much of western North Dakota by strip mining operations.
Grand Forks North Dakota
GRAND FORKS sits eighty miles north of I-94, right next to Minnesota, a mere 75 miles south of the Canadian border. Even before its foundation a century ago, fur traders had used the area to rest and barter during their travels between Winnipeg and Minneapolis. It's a small, friendly, outdoorsy city, with nineteen parks and several tree lined avenues of fine homes. Furious construction has rebuilt the downtown area, ravaged in the 1997 floodwaters. But the disaster shook investors confidence and most of the new buildings lie empty, save for their "for lease" signs posted across the windows.

The most interesting distractions can be found on the redbrick main campus of the University of North Dakota . The North Dakota Museum of Art Mon-Fri 9am-5pm, Sat and Sun 1-5pm: donations offers an eclectic assortment of contemporary art and top touring exhibits. Fascinating tours of the John D. Odegard School of Aerospace Sciences, one of the largest civilian pilot training schools in the world, take in flight simulators, the air traffic control room and an altitude chamber.

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