Schatke Farms:Pioneers of North Dakota's Prairie

摘要

In 1889, North Dakota became the 39th state in the union when President Benjamin Harrison signed the bill that brought the upper half of the Dakota Territory into statehood. Eight years before that, Schatzke Farms was founded when Johan (pronounced John) Schatzke packed up and set sail across the Atlantic Ocean from his native Germany. He trekked across the east coast and the great plains before settling south of the brand new town of Wheatland, which lies on the western edge of the Red River Valleyof North Dakota -about 30 miles west of Fargo.