North Dakota Heritage Center

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Behind a statue of Sacagawea, the Shoshone woman who guided Lewis and Clark on their expedition in 1804, the state's history museum has details on everything from Norwegian bachelor farmers to the scores of nuclear bombs perched on missiles in silos across the state.


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