Dakota Datebook: Legendary mosquitoes

Touting North Dakota as "Legendary," Tourism Division entices travelers to visit the big Badlands, fish for walleyes, or see Jamestown's big buffalo statue. But there was a time when Dakota's boosters minimized some regional legends, particularly the legendarily-big mosquitoes that bit arms, faces and all kinds of places.

Mosquitoes buzzed over Dakota-land since time immemorial, but an early writt...