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  1. History of Bismarck, North Dakota. Bismarck is the capital of the state of North Dakota, the county seat of Burleigh County, and the second most populous city in North Dakota after Fargo. The city was formed in 1872 as "Edwinton" after Edwin Ferry Johnson, a chief engineer for the Northern Pacific Railway company, when the railroad reached the ...

  2. Bismarck, city, capital of North Dakota, U.S., and seat (1873) of Burleigh county. It lies in the south-central part of the state and is situated on the eastern bank of the Missouri River . The Lewis and Clark Expedition passed through the area in 1804–05.

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  3. Bismarck was founded in 1873, the child of both Missouri River steamboat transportation and late-nineteenth-century Great Plains railroad expansion. Originally called The Crossing, the town was a strategically located port for steamboats, which carried upriver immigrants, and military supplies.

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    Bismarck is the capital of North Dakota, and Fargo is the most populous city. View of western North Dakota. North Dakota is in the U.S. region known as the Great Plains. The state shares the Red River of the North with Minnesota to the east.

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