Fort Sauerkraut: North Dakota’s Strange, Ill-Planned Origin Story

About this episode

The episode explores the bizarre tale of Fort Sauerkraut as part of the podcast's mission to cover every U.S. state.

As the gang gets ever closer to finally completing their mission to do an episode on every state in the United States, they arrive at North Dakota. While North Dakota remains one of the nation's least populated states, it's still chock-full of Ridiculous History. And, as Ben, Noel and Max discover in today's episode, the bizarre tale of Fort Sauerkraut may be one of the strangest ones out there. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

People in this episode

Hosts: Ben, Noel

Topics covered

• North Dakota
• Fort Sauerkraut
• history

Keywords

• Ridiculous History
• state history
• bizarre stories

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Ridiculous History

Places: North Dakota’s, the United States, North Dakota

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