Others say Paul Bunyan and Babe cleared the trees from the states of North Dakota and South Dakota.

VOA: special.2009.01.24

He says farmers in some parts of North Dakota plant wheat that is ready to harvest in only about one hundred days.

VOA: special.2010.02.09

South Dakota takes its nickname, "The Coyote State," from an animal that thinks flickertails are good to eat!

VOA: special.2009.08.09

But that is just what scientists are planning to do deep below the Black Hills in South Dakota.

VOA: special.2009.07.21

North Dakota gets its nickname, "The Flickertail State" not from some bird, but from a little squirrel.

VOA: special.2009.08.09

The treaty gave them a large reservation in what is now Nebraska, South Dakota and Wyoming.

VOA: special.2010.04.08

And,we will tell about plans for an unusual laboratory in the state of South Dakota.

VOA: special.2009.07.21

They were given a large area of land north of Wyoming in the Dakota territory.

VOA: special.2010.04.01

Those showerheads came from homes and public places in Colorado,Illinois,New York, North Dakota and Tennessee.

VOA: special.2009.10.13

Roosevelt moved to a ranch in the Dakota territory of the American West.

VOA: special.2010.08.05

Hans Kandel works at the North Dakota State University Extension Service in Fargo.

VOA: special.2010.02.09

This area is considered to extend from north-central Texas to North Dakota.

VOA: special.2010.05.11

North Dakota grows more hectares of sunflowers than any other American state.

VOA: special.2010.02.09

But North Dakota is better known as a top wheat producing state.

VOA: special.2010.02.09

And an organization in South Dakota has a mobile unit for buffalo.

VOA: special.2010.08.03

And the Extension Service at North Dakota State University offers other advice: Do not save plastic bags of food even if boxes or containers inside the bags appear dry.

VOA: special.2010.07.19

Other reservations were in Dakota near the land of the Sioux.

VOA: special.2010.04.01

The Black Hills in Dakota were part of the reservation.

VOA: special.2010.04.08

Babe the Blue Ox died in South Dakota.

VOA: special.2009.01.24

Fargo was also a railroad man. His Great Northern Railroad ended, at the time, in a little town that took his name: Fargo,North Dakota.

VOA: standard.2010.03.11

But there are parts of North Dakota's past that many are unaware of.

VOA: standard.2010.06.22

North Dakota is a land of broad, open prairie known for its Native American heritage, the travels of explorers Lewis and Clark and record snow and cold.

VOA: standard.2010.06.22

The chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, Kent Conrad of North Dakota, says the economy has worsened since the administration crafted its budget, meaning that revenue shortfalls will be greater than Mr.Obama had assumed.

VOA: standard.2009.03.22