Title: Louis Lawrence Pfaller
Dates: 1977
Collection Number: MSS 10224
Quantity: .25 ft.
Abstract: Consists of a broadcast schedule, radio scripts, and cassette tapes prepared for the "Bicentennial Stories" series aired by radio station KDIX in Dickinson, ND. The series, sponsored by the Stark County Historical Society, recounted historical events in North Dakota.
Provenance: The Louis Lawrence Pfaller papers were donated to the State Historical Society of North Dakota by Reverend Pfaller on September 1, 1970.
Property rights: The State Historical Society of North Dakota owns the property rights to the collection.
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Related Collections: MSS 10691
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH – Louis Lawrence Pfaller O.S.B.
Louis Lawrence Pfaller was born at Herreid, South Dakota March 12, 1923. The 1930 census shows Wallie Pfaller, age 39, as head of household in Herreid with four sons: Anton R. 12, Andrew 9, Lawrence J. 7, and Mike 4.
Louis Pfaller received a Master of Arts in History in 1950. He became a monk in 1943 and was ordained a priest in 1948, both at Assumption Abbey, Richardton, ND. While at Assumption Abbey Pfaller was a rector and instructor for missions and retreats, and did pastoral work at various parishes. Pfaller also served as chaplain at Sacred Heart Priory, 1956-1857 and as missionary at Twin Buttes, ND, 1964-1975. His interest as an historian focused on James McLaughlin and the Roy Johnson Papers. In 1968 he received a grant to collect, arrange, and edit the Guide to the Microfilm Edition of the Major James McLaughlin Papers.
Louis Pfaller died at Assumption Abbey November 2, 1979.
CASSETTE TAPES INVENTORY
Box 1:
10224-00001-00004 Teddy Roosevelt and Riley Loughsey
10224-00001-00005 Newspapers, false report death, editor Mark Hanson, “Lazarus”
10224-00001-00006 Wrong side up, New Salem
10224-00001-00007 Miniature writer champ
10224-00001-00008 Sully and Fort Rice
10224-00001-00009 Stark County, ox cart
10224-00001-00010 Sully, address to encampment, Stark County
10224-00001-00011 Sully expedition, signing sandstone rock
10224-00001-00012 Skirmish, Sully and Sioux
10224-00001-00013 Sully’s army at Richardton
10224-00001-00014 Sully, casualties from Killdeer battle
10224-00001-00015 Sully on Heart River
10224-00001-00016 July 26, 1864, Sully toward Killdeer, Sevart farm
10224-00001-00017 Badlands commentary
10224-00001-00018 Badlands commentary
10224-00001-00019 Sully camps near Custer Ranch, Christmas at Medora
10224-00001-00020 Sully’s column through Badlands
10224-00001-00021 Stock dying, Sully
10224-00001-00022 Grant’s visit to North Dakota, apple tree
10224-00001-00023 Young Man’s Butte near Richardton and Indian story
10224-00001-00024 Second version of Young Man’s Butte, Sioux Story
10224-00001-00025 One horse buggy Dr. Valentine Summerhaven came from Fort Rice alone
10224-00001-00026 Stemper’s grave at Young Man’s Butte
10224-00001-00027 Keogh trail
10224-00001-00028 R S Brookings, Oakdale farm at Young Man’s Butte
10224-00001-00029 Young Man’s Butte proclaimed as pinnacle of country
10224-00001-00030 Northern Pacific Railroad dug out shelters near Gladstone, Green River
10224-00001-00031 Gerald Douglas buried with honors near Gladstone, Green River
10224-00001-00032 Immigrants came to Gladstone, Green River
10224-00001-00033 Railway survey, Dickinson, “Pleasant Valley,” plat filed in Mandan
10224-00001-00034 Dickinson Press official paper
10224-00001-00035 Dickinson as county seat
10224-00001-00036 Stark County carved from Morton County
10224-00001-00037 Dickinson, growth and trade, by Harry Roberts
10224-00001-00038 Dickinson school districts, system, by Jim Randall
10224-00001-00039 New school board finds classroom, teachers, by Jim Randall
10224-00001-00040 Parochial schools in Dickinson, by Jim Randall
10224-00001-00041 General Land Office (GLO) Surveyors mark townships, by LW Weigel
10224-00001-00042 Land surveyed by 1892-1896, by LW Weigel
10224-00001-00043 Walter R. Weigel came, pioneer surveyor, by LW Weigel
10224-00001-00044 Gladstone, squatters rights claims, hauling spring water
10224-00001-00045 Richardton called Spring Valley, tried to attract settlers from Germany
Box 2:
10224-00002-00046 Antelope and Taylor, names
10224-00002-00047 Windsor Hotel in Richardton
10224-00002-00048 German and Irish settlers, Jack Callahan, Northern Pacific
10224-00002-00049 Fake shootouts, “wild” town
10224-00002-00050 Silas Greg at the Roughrider Hotel, “wild” town
10224-00002-00051 New wave of immigration ca 1900s
10224-00002-00052 Northern Pacific train robbed at Dickinson
10224-00002-00053 William Jayne, first governor of Dakota Territory, fist fight
10224-00002-00054 James Bryce, capitol’s cornerstone, Bismarck; city growth
10224-00002-00055 fortifications
10224-00002-00056 Hebron, Fort Sauerkraut
10224-00002-00057 Hidatsa help Fort Sauerkraut fight Sioux, scalping demo
10224-00002-00058 “Uprising” and defense, imaginary attack
10224-00002-00059 Troops reach Dickinson and calm civilians; no attack
10224-00002-00060 Father Vincent Worthy at Richardton, mission church bolstered
10224-00002-00061 Minot is end of the line, railroad track; wild west
10224-00002-00062 Pierre de Smet baptizes American Indians (June 10)
10224-00002-00063 Home in a dug out
10224-00002-00064 German Hungarian settlers, St. Elizabeth church
10224-00002-00065 Lefor, harvest festival, 1895, Carowy
10224-00002-00066 September, wind blows over church/school, Fr. Vincent, 1st bishop, Bismarck
10224-00002-00067 Fr. Vincent, mass not wanted regularly, church donations and salary
10224-00002-00068 Violence around ethnic groups, Shanley
10224-00002-00069 Shanley on majority peaceful immigrants, ethnic groups
10224-00002-00070 Insurance agents pleased with Dickinson fire fighting set up
10224-00002-00071 Fire protection meeting at opera house, steamer and cisterns planned
10224-00002-00072 Judge Crawford comes to Dickinson as young attorney, helps Huidekoper, H. T. Ranch; by Harry Roberts
10224-00002-00073 Threshing crops
10224-00002-00074 First rodeo, Wild West show
10224-00002-00075 Dickinson, wooden sidewalks, prairie earth streets, “75 years ago”; reminiscences by Harry Roberts
10224-00002-00076 More windmills (65) than trees, typhoid fever, water system
10224-00002-00077 Heart River, explosion, possible oil spot, prospected forty years later
10224-00002-00078 Fort Berthold Indians seek name for school/substation, “Mandaree” campaign, first post office
10224-00002-00079 Senator Langer and Governor Rockefeller, patent medication, “fake cure,” fake threat of lawsuit
10224-00002-00080 November 1, 1926, Queen Marie of Rumania and children pass through North Dakota on Northern Pacific Railroad; affection for horses
10224-00002-00081 Largest town McKenzie County, Banks, Watford, Watford City
10224-00002-00082 Fall 1880, Northern Pacific Railroad set goal to MT border and accidentally stops ten miles away, Sentinel Butte, not on record
10224-00002-00083 Settlement at South Heart in 1881
10224-00002-00084 1st Dutch immigrants to South Heart, Belfield
10224-00002-00085 Bankers in Holland invested in Belfield, South Heart, hoping to send Dutch immigrants; only ten families remained
10224-00002-00086 Frontier armies gave names to campsite, 1876, under General Merrill, named Belfield area Camp Houston; Keogh trail for less than a year; 1883 town platted
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