I have always been fascinated how place names come about. Mary's home town of Raleigh, ND rests below a line of hills called the Dogtooth Hills. Here is a picture taken in 1936. When driving by on the highway it is easy to see how someone with just a little imagination could have imagined a jawbone with canine teeth jutting out of it. I can think of several other names that have caught my attention over the years: Killdeer, Cutbank, Cache le Poudre, Wind River, etc. I should have opened an atlas and scanned it because there are many of this type.
