| Show wagon post office yields to progress SS FARGO N D the smallest and perhaps most unique post office in the united states located 40 miles north of bowman in the southwest corner comer of north dakota gives way to progress if there are smaller buildings being used exclusively for the distribution of mail they at least would not appear as diminutive in their setting as does a sheep wagon at ranger where six families are served by uncle sam the sheep wagon with its wheels removed nestles in the valley of the little missouri river in the most picturesque section of the badlands of north dakota the sheep wagon has been sold and the post office at ranger will be discontinued this summer established in 1912 the ranger post office has been a curiosity for many years natives tell the story that before the sheep wagon was removed from its wagon wheels a post office inspector sat in the stuffy little shack when much to his amazement the A t 1 0 E 7 1 1 1 p AI post office began to shake violently thoughts of a temblor ran through his mind as he made tor for the door to see what was going on the temblor was no more than a pig scratching its back against one of the wheels thus as the bowman county pioneer says with the discontinuance of the ranger post office another chapter of the pioneer pioneering izig spirit of the west is brought to a close the machine age that affords such fast travel makes it possible for patrons to adopt a more modern post office as their address bowman 40 miles away |
