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Mondak, Montana is a ghost town in Roosevelt County, which flourished c. 1903-1919, in large measure by selling alcohol to residents of North Dakota, then a dry state.〔Alice M. Sweetman, "Mondak: Planned City of Hope Astride Montana-Dakota Border," ''Montana'', 15 (August 1965): 12-27; John Matzko, ''Reconstructing Fort Union'' (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2001), 26-32.〕 Mondak—a name derived from the adjoining states—was created in 1903, mostly by local investors who realized that profit could be made by selling beer and liquor to North Dakotans. Because of its strategic location on the Missouri River and the Great Northern Railway, Mondak quickly became a thriving village. The first building was constructed in 1904, and Mondak soon boasted a bank, two hotels, three general stores, and several grain elevators. It also eventually had a church, a newspaper, a two-story brick school, and a part-time electric generating plant.〔Matzko, 27. Although the church never had a resident minister, the town welcomed periodic visits from the noted Methodist prohibitionist Rev. William Van Orsdel. Sweetman, 18; Robert W. Lind, ''Brother Van: Montana Pioneer Circuit Rider'' (Helena, MT: Falcon Press, 1992).〕 Locally raised grain and cattle were shipped to Minneapolis on the Great Northern, but the town’s most profitable business remained alcohol sales. During its heyday, Mondak had at least seven saloons and a number of warehouses to store alcohol.〔Matzko, 29.〕 Gambling and prostitution were never legal but always winked at. There were many accidents involving inebriated men, and the crime rate was high for the size of the community. On April 4, 1913, a black construction worker killed Sheriff Thomas Courtney and a deputized citizen Richard Bermeister 〔 (Prairie Public Broadcasting, April 4, 2006. )〕 and was promptly lynched by the residents.〔Matzko, 29; Sweetman, 23-24. Booker T. Washington mentioned the lynching in a July 15, 1913 letter to the Boston ''Transcript''. Louis R. Harlan and Raymond W. Smock, eds., ''Booker T. Washington Papers'' (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1982), 12: 232.〕 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「Mondak, Montana」の詳細全文を読む
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