“Mountraille” were merged to create what is today known as “Imperial Ward” County. Imperial Ward was the largest county in the state until 1910 when it was broken up, reforming Mountrail and Renville and adding Burke County to the north, and leaving a much-smaller Ward County to the...
1 With regard to the latter, the recurrent political instability of the last two decades had encouraged magnates to switch allegiances between rulers, and those rulers to be only too keen to receive them. The two kings agreed to restrain this burgeoning ‘transfer market’ by binding aristocrats...