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Marmarth ( ) is the largest city in Slope County in the U.S. State of North Dakota with a population of 143 as of 2014. It is situated in the southwestern part of Slope County, along the Bowman County-limits, in the southwestern part of North Dakota, just seven miles east of the state-border to Montana. Marmarth was founded as a railroad town along the Milwaukee Road from Seattle, WA to Chicago, IL, in order to develop a town for homesteaders. By its founding, the town population was over 5,000 people - mostly rail workers and cattle ranchers. Despite a population boom caused by the opening of the Little Beaver Dome oil field in 1936, the town population declined during most of the 21st century and had a population of only 143 in 2014. There is one restaurant and one bar still located in Marmarth in 2013.〔Howe, Jeff L. (2013). ''What the Next Moment Might Bring: Tales from the Road to High Adventure''. Trafford Publishing. Pages 48-49. ISBN 9781466995765.〕 The town is recognized for various historical events, including Native-American Lakota history, the discovery of the Dakota fossil and various other dinosaur skeletons, the attack on James L. Fisk by Sitting Bull, and several visits by former president Theodore Roosevelt. Roosevelt visited Marmarth on several occasions and killed both his first buffalo and his first grizzly bear by the Little Missouri River in Marmarth. The old ranch house on Hay Creek in which Roosevelt stayed during his visits are still standing.〔Schlasinger, Ethel (2013). ''The WPA Guide to North Dakota: The Northern Prairie State''. Trinity University Press. Pages 309-310. ISBN 9781595342324.〕〔Federal Writers Project (1972). ''North Dakota: A Guide to the Northern Prairie State''. North American Book Dist LLC. Pages 327-328. ISBN 9780403021833.〕 Another visited attraction in town is the “Woman in Stone”, which is a 50-foot rock depicting the face and hairline of a woman. The town is at the southern tip of Theodore Roosevelt National Park and the Little Missouri National Grassland, and is also the closest city to Big Gumbo, a 20,000 acre federally owned public wilderness area administrated by the Bureau of Land Management.〔Johnsgard, Paul A. (2005). ''Prairie Dog Empire: A Saga of the Shortgrass Prairie''. University of Nebraska Press. Page 174. ISBN 9780803226043.〕〔Knue, Joseph (1992). ''North Dakota Wildlife Viewing Guide''. Globe Pequot. Page 64. ISBN 9781560441205.〕 Several movies and TV-shows have been filmed in the Theodore Roosevelt National Park, including the ''Wooly Boys'', ''History Hogs'' and ''The Indomitable Teddy Roosevelt'', all which were filmed in neighboring Billings County immediately north of town.〔http://www.imdb.com/search/title?locations=Medora,+North+Dakota,+USA&ref_=ttloc_loc_8〕 == Etymology == The name comes from a combination of letters in the first and middle names of Margaret Martha Finch, granddaughter of Albert J. Earling, president of the railroad at the time. It is nicknamed the “city of trees”, as a result of being one of few forested areas in the Badlands region of Southern North Dakota. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Marmarth, North Dakota」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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