11/10/2006: They were men who could fly a hundred feet across the plains of North Dakota, and all they needed to do so was a steep slope, a proper landing place, and their two wooden skis. Through the 1920s and 30s, these ski jumpers were North Dakota heroes, and many of them helped North Dakota, a state with no mountains and few hills, turn into a ski jumping center.
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