Word: bemidji
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Wright went after big game in its natural habitat. With a party of 21, eight bear-dogs and an observation plane, he ventured to Bemidji, Minn, for the first organized bear hunt in Minnesota history. Result of a week's hunting: one 400-lb. black bear, one 90-lb. cub, one wolf, 50 porcupine quills in one of the dogs. The Bemidji Chamber of Commerce gave the visiting hunters a bear-steak dinner, slyly provided them with sleeping quarters in a Boy Scout camp...
From Lake Winnibigoshish to Dirty Nose Lake, Minnesota's fishing resorts were jammed. A rowboat couldn't be had without ah advance reservation; most of them were signed up for the rest of the season. Izaak Waltons from towns like Bemidji, Sleepy Eye and Sauk Center got out their flies and corks, all hell bent to catch one of the 1 ,000 prize fish planted by Minneapolis Radio Station KSTP...
...Lake Bemidji, Minn., a village was incorporated. Name: North Pole, in honor of its winter weather...