Named after Henry D. Minot, a young entrepreneurial visionary from the east, the town of Minot, North Dakota was conceived in the late 1800s. With the impending arrival of the Great Northern Railroad the town site was actually selected in November of 1886.
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The official state flower of North Dakota is the wild prairie rose. The flower sports five bright pink petals with a tight cluster of yellow stamens in the center. The state rose grows along roadsides, in pastures and in native meadows.
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The Lewis and Clark expedition encountered their first grizzly (brown) bears in North Dakota.