The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1915-1920, 1915-11-18
Story of the Making of
the Sunshine State
By r. F. FLINT
North Dakota Commissioners Of Agriculture and Labor

it is reasonable to assume IN that stA Ebert W. Hubbard, whose recent
thought may not have been original with him. Yet somehow these
simple words, the truth Q, chem, and, perhaps the very fact that they
them upon the writer ter NS N' r00N
Energy is ever seeking expression"
So pointcd1y do these words apply to the subject of this article
that the writer has adopted them as the ruling thought in discussing
clos: BY Sf T tsst s esd RiSt' ssrs 'st Us , %Ssss s1 Ssd !, t a91I t iSs' n5yis or apss; ito tn:
early COS OF the last century, struggle which itself gave bloody
T RGot to I'll this sha tim sre% the ePsst e VIE w 1f p praetc shi n sn airn % a Unknown GinsSss,
and undeveloped region, known only to the nation a a whole through
hunters The settlement Of the Middle West had about been COM
Pisttu surveyed and Brought 81 t Within a,is' the hs' boundaries carries Of" Of Civilization vii alton.
Full OF restless energy the advancing wave OF progress halted tor
which swept in unbroken grandeur from the Mississippi to the
Rocky Mountains, awaiting the signal for that onward ard movement NJ. mss1s
it's NsI greatest n national unit dt''''' 49, 'AN'' ''~'' 'A ~N SN
Grants triumph at Richmond and the quickly resulting peace
released hundreds Of thousands Of men, still in the prime Of man
men .s were ripe for =; any ,,s emergency !. ~, Thy hey wes ssd ready and eager to
min invasion nssss. that a,std did not sas cease sSs until the e. T 4Iu psiisc had 1s.t been gained
With this advance, and following it in an endless stream, came
that westward movement along the northern line Of the United States
The ind9mitable energy that had eha1aete as LTD. the &c; conquest g. aaoo Of
the Middle dbl West again found a outlet l along this new line OF p1 hgS
hswn homes and wealth for themselve: in Michigan, ohie, Illinois,
new adventure fully equipped with all those qualities OF + mind mind and
end yia eh q wdo to t the full 1t tSsiz spirit dts snd Gi Initiative at sons y "SN '@'"S''
Swiftly yet surely the wave swept westward. Hamlets became
the march Of progress continued: The Mississippi was reached and
passed. Homes were established, civil rule was organized, railroads
were built and a permanent civilization created.
In this manner the outposts of the advance reached the Red
River of the North, and it was here that our own state OF North
Dakota, or Dakota territory as it was then called, came into the
quickly moving picture.
In the meantime a new force had been added to that army Of
energy and progress which was destined to exert the greatest single
influence yet developed in the movement westward: This was no
pardcipating-the Scandinavian. Natural pioneers, trained by gen.
erations of continuous struggle with stubborn soil and climate these
har6v pe0p1 ia some years. eel sending their our lei
westward along the northern stretches of our continent in search Of
new homes perhaps less rugged in their surroundings than those to
which they had been accustomed.
No sturdier or better equipped allies could have been secured
for the stupendous task yet before the pioneers. Indeed, from this
time forward, SO marked has been the influence of these people upon
the movement, the history Of North Dakota must of necessity be
come a history of the scandinavian farmers who dared and did in
those early days when the Red River marked the boundary, Of that
great Unknown which the men with the viking blood faxed forth to
tame and civiize.
The crossing Of the Red River by the Northern Pacific railroad
in Iulv. 1873, may well be named as the date of birth for North
Dakota, although some sixteen years were yet to elapse before state