Bismarck: Communications

Newspapers and Magazines

The Bismarck Tribune, North Dakota's oldest newspaper still publishing, appears every morning. Other newspapers published in Bismarck are the biweekly Farm and Ranch Guide, and the monthly Dakota Catholic Action.

Magazines published in Bismarck include the monthlies Enterprise Connection, a business publication; Dakota Country, which promotes hunting and fishing; North Dakota Stockman; and Vintage Guitar, which focuses on the hobby of guitar playing. North Dakota Outdoors, a natural resources magazine, is issued ten times per year. The Sunflower, a magazine for sunflower producers, is issued six times per year. Locally published quarterlies include North Dakota Horizons, a consumer magazine of North Dakota lifestyles and North Dakota History, which focuses on the history and culture of North Dakota and the Great Plains.

Television and Radio

Bismarck has six television stations—four network stations, one public station, and one community access station. The city is also served by three AM radio stations and six FM stations.

Media Information: Bismarck Tribune, PO Box 5516, Bismarck, ND 58506; telephone (701)223-2500; fax (701) 223-2063

Bismarck Online

Bismarck-Mandan Chamber of Commerce. Available www.chmbr.org

Bismarck-Mandan Convention & Visitors Bureau. Available www.bismarckmandancvb.com

Bismarck-Mandan Development Association. Available www.bmda.org

Bismarck Public Schools. Available www.bismarck.k12.nd.us

The Bismarck Tribune. Available www.bismarcktribune.com

City of Bismarck Home Page. Available www.bismarck.org

North Dakota State Library. Available ndsl.lib.state.nd.us

State Historical Society of North Dakota. Available www.state.nd.us/hist

Theodore Roosevelt National Park. Available www.nps.gov/thro

Selected Bibliography

Bird, George F., and Edwin J. Taylor, Jr., History of the City of Bismarck North Dakota: The First 100 Years 1872-1972, (Bismarck: Bismarck Centennial Association, 1972)

Rogers, Ken, Allison Hawes Bundy, Laura Seibel, eds., Bismarck by the River (Bismarck, North Dakota: The Bismarck Tribune, 1997)

Remele, Larry, ed., The North Dakota State Capitol: Architecture and History (Bismarck, ND: the state Historical Society of North Dakota, 1989)