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4 unusual facts about Medora


Cal Collins

Cal Collins (May 5, 1933-August 27, 2001) was an American jazz guitarist born in Medora, Indiana.

Hurts So Good

Much of the video was filmed in Medora, Indiana, a small town located approximately 20 miles southwest of Seymour, Indiana, where Mellencamp was born and raised.

Medora, North Dakota

Medora was founded in 1883 along the transcontinental rail line of the Northern Pacific Railway by French nobleman Marquis de Mores, who named the city after his wife Medora von Hoffman.

Ralph Hubbard

As a child he attended Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show, and as a teenager on a trip to the Western United States he visited the Battle of the Little Big Horn site on one of his summer trips to his uncle’s ranch in Medora.


Billings County Courthouse

The Billings County Courthouse in Medora, North Dakota was built c.1880 and was remodelled in 1913 with architect John Tester.

Maria Alexandrova

In 2005 and 2007 she had numerous soloist roles, and during the same years played as Odette-Odile in Swan Lake, Medora in the Le Corsaire and Pupil in the Lesson.

Medora Vallambrosa, Marquise de Mores

However, the story of the Marquis de Mores and Medora are now featured in The Medora Musical held every summer in Medora, a major tourist town in the North Dakota Badlands.

Nokota horse

In 1884, the HT Ranch, located near Medora, North Dakota, bought 60 mares from a herd of 250 Native American-bred horses originally confiscated from the Lakota leader Sitting Bull and sold at Fort Buford, North Dakota in 1881.


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