Still heading to Dickinson

Many of the towns along this road were along the Northern Pacific Railroad line. In 1864, Congress granted 40 million acres in land grants.  The railroad development spurred the movement of people and goods.

This city park will allow camping. The population is under 1000.

This town was originally built by German Russians.   There were several waves of immigrants from that part of the world in the early 1900s.  There are still 2 million ethnic Germans in  Russia today.

The landscape that I have been riding through.

The next little town of about the same size. It was settle in 1885 by people immigrating from Crimea in Russia.

You can see these spires from miles outside Richardton.

The Assumption Abbey is run by the Benedictines and started in  1899.  I notice that these town, like elsewhere in rural areas have consolidated school systems.

Dickinson with 30,000 people is home of a university.