We like to see them. There's also a library, servants' quarters, a relic room displaying the marquis' saddles, guns, boots, coats and other possessions. 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. A lot of the 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 Gov. Ed Schafer. It was in the 1930s that he first came through as a traveling salesman. Yet, he saw something special.