Dakota Datebook

Laundry

Jacob Bull, Badlands Musician

Three Andrists and a Newspaper

Lunching with MacArthur

French Dakota

April 6, 2020 — The following is from Hiram. M. Drache’s excellent book, “The Challenge of the Prairie: Life and Times of Red River Pioneers,” published in 1970.

Washing clothes was (a) woman’s chore. Cisterns were built to store a supply of soft water for washing clothes and for bathing. Often the early …