A history of how the nicknames "The Magic City", for the City of Minot, and "The Magicians", for the Minot Public Schools athletic teams, came to be, separating out fact from myth.

A history of how the nicknames "The Magic City", for the City of Minot, and "The Magicians", for the Minot Public Schools athletic teams, came to be, separating out fact from myth. The author also a brief biography of Frank E. Graves and his link to a theory as to how these nicknames may have been formed.

This book contains more than 800 photographs and hundreds of stories on the colorful city of Minot and the surrounding area of Ward County. This is truly a history book covering Minot and North Dakota using historic photographs and words to present the stories. The book also features more than 70 huge double-page spread photographs showing the smallest of details. This book highlights through stories and photographs many of Minot's early residents that raised Minot from Erik Ramstad's hay field along the Mouse River into a thriving boom town nicknamed the "Magic City." The book highlights hundreds of photographs of city views and streets. The book covers county and city law enforcement, the Women's Christian Temperance Union, bootlegging, vice, incredible crimes from robbery to murder, the Minot Fire Department and major fires, "Operation Haylift" during the winter of 1948-49, Life Magazine's visit to Minot State Teachers College in 1941, the United Nations Military Staff hunting trip to Minot in 1946. Streets, sewer and power, the discovery of coal and coal mining, early Minot businesses and industries, fairs, carnivals, circuses, parades and celebrations, Minot education, famous people from Minot and the area, recreation and entertainment, hunting, the first radio station in Minot, the "Great Depression," and America goes to war in 1941.

Without William Shakespeare, we wouldn’t have literary masterpieces like Romeo and Juliet. But without Henry Condell and John Heminges, we would have lost half of Shakespeare’s plays forever! After the death of their friend and mentor, the two actors are determined to compile the First Folio and preserve the words that shaped their lives. They’ll just have to borrow, beg, and band together to get it done. Amidst the noise and color of Elizabethan London, THE BOOK OF WILL finds an unforgettable true story of love, loss, and laughter, and sheds new light on a man you may think you know.