December 13, 2024 – It has often been said that ties run close in North Dakota. It’s the biggest small town in the world—or so it seems.On this date in 1968, the Minot Daily News published a story that illustrated that point in an unexpected way. Mark Marsall, a former resident of Mandan, who was then living in California, met Robert E. Larson, of Minot, while in Mexico, out in the...