| Summary: | A history of West Fargo, North Dakota including family biographies. 252 pages : illustrations, photographs 26 cm. WEST FARGO-RIVERSIDE - 12,000 YEARS AGO Can you imagine how West Fargo-Riverside looked 12,000 years ago? Geologists tell us it was covered by a glacier. This glacier originated from a point west of Hudson Bay moving out to all points of the compass. It was named the Keewatin Glacier. The glacier a mile thick inched over the land grinding off peaks and hills carrying the material along dropping, it in piles and ridges and grinding rocks to powder to form clay and silt. With climatic changes it developed into a huge lake — Lake Agassiz. It was 700 miles long and 49 miles wide in the West Fargo area. It was the largest body of water on the North American Continent. Great gales raged over this lake which stood 200 feet deep over our two cities. Great icebergs broke off the end of the glacier and floated in the lake discharging huge boulders, rocks, clay and silt. This process went on for thousands of years, geologists say. Scanned with a Zeutschel Zeta book scanner at 300 dpi. Edited with Multi-Page TIFF Editor.
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