‘Let the Saloons Come’: When Fargo went dry in 1890, liquor ruled in Moorhead

For 25 years, between 1890 and 1915, Moorhead, Minnesota, was infamous for being a rough and rowdy saloon town. The reputation was well deserved, as alcohol sales were the city’s number-one industry. Since the arrival of the first settler-colonists in the Red River Valley in the 1870s, there had been a moral, political, and economic … [ Read more]