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Collection Summary
Collection: 00032 - North Dakota Oral History Project Photograph Collection
Folder: DU-05
Item: 00026
Title: Bill McCarty
Date: circa 1920
Summary: Bill McCarty poses for a portrait wearing a cowboy hat.||Bill McCarty was born in Des Moines Iowa. During childhood, he moved around the West, working as a cowboy for many ranchers. In 1900, he moved to Hettinger, N.D. then soon moved to Alexander. Later, he moved near the Little Missouri River, and would later purchase the Custer Trail Ranch south of Medora. McCarty became known as Badlands Bill McCarty, and was known as a cowboy, rancher, and horse trader. Briefly, he worked with George Gardner in Buffalo Bill's Wild West show. After leaving show business, he performed in local rodeos, and owned a herd of buffalo. He sold the Custer Trail Ranch in 1944 and moved to Medora to continue horse trading. He died in Beach, N.D. in 1958. Bill McCarty was inducted into the North Dakota Cowboy Hall of Fame in 2004.
Red ID: PH_I_121794 Image ID: 53592 Image Notes: 00032-DU-05-00026

Collection: 00032 Digitized Images from Collection
Title: North Dakota Oral History Project Photograph Collection
Date: 1880-1977

Summary: Consists of copies of photographs belonging to people interviewed for the North Dakota Oral History Project. The Project was undertaken by Larry Sprunk, with the cooperation of the North Dakota American Revolution Bicentennial Commission, the North Dakota Farmers Union, and the State Historical Society of North Dakota. The primary objective of the North Dakota Oral History Project was to conduct oral tape recorded interviews with North Dakotans who lived through the state's history and who could speak of this history from a first-hand basis. Interviewees were photographed at the time of their interviews. In addition, the project borrowed over 6,000 historical photographs which were copied and added to the State Historical Society's collection. Many interviewees also donated family histories, documents, letters, ledgers, books, and artifacts.

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