Reply from Betty Lamoureux Malone Badgett (49): 

Gary – Eileen Murray McKie (37) has passed away.  (She was my cousin).

On a happier note, I want to thank you again for the emails – what a great project!!  It is really a lot of

fun reading about the past and present of Dunseith – and what is even more fun – every once in a

while I even recognize some of the names and remember some of the old times!!

Betty Lamoureux Malone Badgett

From Cecile Gouin Craig (61): 

Hi there, I think you’ve done it. I have received E-mails to 9/22 #130 or 31

I forgot, these senior moments are awful and many. I’ve spent the last 4
days either running my father Lawrence Gouin to Drs. or the hospital. (He’ll
be 93 in Nov.) He broke his hip in January (had never been in a hopital in
his life) actually his leg was totally disconnected from his body, pins,were
put in. He has fallen a couple times and now a pin has gone thru the ball
joint into the socket. Today they did surgery and removed the pin. So he
should good to go again. He should be home Thursday or Friday. Mom Jean is
still doing quite well. Thanks again Gary, Cecile

Folks, I screwed up and previously posted both of the next two messages from Gary Morgan & Dick Johnson omitting the attachments. Here they are with the attachments. That’s what happens when one gets in a hurry.  Sorry for the confusion.  Gary

From Gary Morgan (56): 

Gary & All,

In the Early 50s Beulah Shurr had a class project where her students went out and interviewed some of the old timers around Dunseith and then wrote up the interview.  Some of the results showed up in the Dunseith history book ” Prairie Past and Mountain Memories”.  My brother Dick’s effort is on page 323.
He interview Lillie Kotchevar about the Dunseith bank robbery.  Lillie was a little girl at the time and the robber also robbed her father’s store.  I thought possibly your readers would be interested in seeing a newspaper account of this incident.  Also, a picture of the would be robber laid out on a slab.
Unfortunately, I don’t know what newspaper this was taken from.  Possibly the “Willow City Eagle”.
This incident brings a couple ot things to mind: 1.Did Cashier Tucker exagerate the amount of the take or is there still $700 stashed somewhere within an hours horseback ride’, round trip, between the hills & Dunseith?
2.  If this were to occur today, the citizens of Dunseith would certainly be in deep do do.  Especially the Major, he killed the man’s horse!

Gary Morgan

                        Newspaper Article from Gary Morgan
 

From Dick Johnson (68): 

Gary and Friends,

Gary Morgan brought up a very interesting subject, the bank robbery of

the Turtle Mountain Bank of 1892. The Dunseith history book states that
about $80. was taken, but Laura Thompson Law’s book, ‘The History of
Rolette County’-pub. 1953, says a few hundred dollars were taken. The
robber went out of town and then came back with a rifle, which he must
have bought with some of the cash, so there probably was not a very big
treasure left for someone to find. If the people in the foothills found
any loot, I bet the bootleggers have the remainder!! I’m sending a page
out of Law’s book with the story, so folks can read both of the
accounts–very similar to each other–although with minor differences.
If you don’t have a Dunseith history book and want one, call Security
State Bank in Dunseith at 1-701-244-5797. Those of us who have one
wouldn’t be without one! Attached is a page from Mrs. Law’s book, about
the robbery. Thanks Gary!

Dick

                              Dick’s Attachment
Folks, In regards to Dick’s comments about the 1882-1982 Dunseith Centennial book.  I strongly suggest spending a few extra dollars for the hard cover book. It’s a big book of 502 pages. I initially purchased the soft cover book and the binding started to come apart. I purchased a hard cover in 2007 and it is well bound. I like having the loose bound book  for scanning documents, because I can just take the pages out of the book and place them in my scanner without having to place the whole book over the scanner.  Gary

                                     Dunseith High School Class of 1945