Charles T Dazey was "Class Poet" at Harvard in 1881, had aspirations to be a lawyer, but a turn of his health sent him off to the Dakota Territory to find a new life. In this article about Dazey from the Bismarck Tribune, we learn he didn't just become the average Dakota homesteader. Not only did he name a town after himself, but his writing skills that gave him acclaim in the Ivy League made him into an acclaimed playwright and screenwriter (see a poster from his Broadway show at the LOC), back in a time when this region was barely a state.
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