The Forces that Shaped Fargo, ND

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Fargo has these neat stands all along Broadway, the main street of downtown.  They have placards that explain the importance of things like the coming of the railroad, and they have scenes etched in glass that look this the above during the day and like this at night:

Do you all like the statuary I've been showing you?  Here's one from downtown Fargo of a critter that used to roam freely.  Meriwether Lewis said he stood on a prominent point not too far from here and saw perhaps several thousand of them, along with antelope and deer:

Here's a classic scene:  a train so long it disappears at the horizon.  This picture was taken in Fargo, but today in Bismarck a train went by and I indulged in a childish activity and counted 117 cars.  

Below is a replica Viking ship that a man built in Minnesota and sailed on Lake Superior.  Then he died of leukemia and his family sailed it from Duluth, MN to Bergen, Norway, more than 6,000 miles, in the summer of 1982, in his honor.

Fargo has three theaters.  This one is historic.  A settler whose published diary I read wanted to leave her 1,500-acre wheat farm to go to the theater once in a while, but it was too dangerous (too cold) to travel home at night and too expensive to stay in town after a show.