Another town on the Great Plains was beginning at Hettinger, southwestern North Dakota, in 1908—one of more than 2,000  places added to the map of the region between 1870 and 1920. The Milwaukee Road's new line west from Aberdeen, South Dakota, reached to the horizon. Families worked from tents or open-air camps to assemble their animals and load their meager goods into buckboards and box wagons for the trek to a parcel of land on the frontier. With virtually no social organization or physical structures, they faced the task of building everything. Photo, State Historical Society of North Dakota (A1719-2).