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Saturday, July 3rd, 2004 at 10:00 am the annual Rough Rider Parade took place on Mail/Villard Street.  Cheryl Tollefson is from the DHS Class'64 and knows about horses. She is member of the Rough Rider Commission. So what is a Rough Rider actutally? From Wikipedia I got this: President Roosevelt rose to national prominence during the Spanish-American War as commander of the "Rough Riders" ("The Rough Riders" was the name bestowed by the American press on the 1st U.S. Volunteer Cavalry regiment during the Spanish-American War.) - and since Roosevelt had some doings in the Badlands, I could imagine, there is a relation. And then: Rough Riders means, that the riding gets rough - in general. |
| I taped about 30 min. video from
the 60 min. parade, and some of the clips will be published here -
first
of all in the form of still pictures. It was quite an event - it is
election year, so many local politicians
were here to tell about themselves with the Govenor of North Dakota
heading them all. But we also saw the 7th cavalry in a beautiful
formation, a McDonald Orchestra and a lot of other things portraying
Dickinson anno 2004. |
 What a tall guy! |
 who are these two beautiful blondes in a golf cart? It couldn't be - or could it be Cheryl at the wheel? |