A local tradition is the nightly pitchfork fondue cookout at the amphitheater. Yes, rib-eye steaks are skewered on pitchforks and cooked in a huge fondue pot. Tourism generates 98 percent of all sales in Medora, Golberg says. Dickinson, the nearest large city, is 34 miles east, and where many townsfolk shop. Medora's DeMores School has about 50 students in kindergarten through eighth grade, and four classroom teachers.
Older students attend school in one of three other towns.
Gold Seal, a household products company, was there when Golberg arrived, and that's where he got his first job. Golberg also owns a small Medora shopping center. He has a ranch, homes for lease and an auto repair shop, and is a partner in the local AmericInn Motel, located in front of the house in which he lives with his wife and two children. Most of the other businesses, such as the souvenir and gift shops and historic attractions, are run by the Theodore Roosevelt Foundation, established in 1986 by Harold Schafer, the father of North Dakota Gov. Ed Schafer. It was in the 1930s that he first came through as a traveling salesman.