Wes,
There was a show of 10 one hour segments on over the weekend that went through each state and its history. Very interesting and kind of funny about North and South Dakota. First the fight about which became a state first as the president signed the bill for both of them at the same time, so there was about a 5 second delay between them. Then North Dakota was going to drop the North because it sounds cold and would drive away tourists. Then they decided to keep it as the president had shuffled the bills and wouldn't say which one he signed first so, North Dakota decided that since N comes before S they would keep the North and claim they became a state first. Also one that I would never have guessed is which state is the 3rd largest Gold producing place in the world.
Ron