Dakota mysteries & oddities / by William Jackson.

Does N. Dakota pyramid precede Egyptian pyramids? -- North Dakota's first journalist [Mark Kellogg] killed in action -- The Dakota mountain range -- Dakota twisters -- Pettibone's prairie pagoda -- Sophia's [Sophia Eberlein] legend lives in Harvey Library -- Ouch! -- First fight between a plane and a UFO -- Indian Joe's legend continues for 100 years -- Oh, give me a home -- Danish mill -- Bird Woman's legend lives on whatever her name -- The miracle of the St. Genevieve Mission -- Man's [Jim Atner] conscience costs him life in prison -- August Normand served longest -- David Thompson memorial -- Who's pruning all the junipers in the Badlands? -- Dakota homesteader [Ole Abelseth] survived the Titanic -- The writing rock mystery [Divide County Writing Rocks] -- Newspaper oddities -- Tomorrow's writing rocks? -- Sitting Bull's proper burial -- Is Nanny a cross between a cow and a deer? -- She [Doreen Hilzendeger] might be the state's only female football announcer -- World's tallest man [Clifford Thompson] born in North Dakota -- The Winrod abductions [Gordon Winrod] -- The town [Granville] that changed its name [McGillicudy City] -- Oh, give me a stone! -- How'd they move that bridge? [Four Bears Bridge] -- Railroad trestle [Gassman Coulee] dates back 100 years -- The state's only lift bridge [Fairview Lift Bridge] -- Sleepwalking to prison -- Building it so they will come -- See the U.S.A. in a Red River oxcart -- Champion of modern skiing [Sondre Norheim] is buried near Denbigh -- The man who read his own obituary [Clayton Weedeman] -- Is Father X [Gary McLaughlin] a priest or a con man? -- Killdeer's cowboy photographer [Leo D. Harris] -- Trading post is state's oldest building [Kittson Trading Post] -- Surrey's round barn is one of only a thousand -- A Dakota town called Mountain -- Solving the 'Back Door to Hell' mystery [Rasmus Knarreborg].