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Fargo is a 1996 film about an inept car salesman's attempted crime falls apart due to his and his henchmen's bungling and the persistence of a pregnant police officer.
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Fargo [1] is a modern city of 90,000 on the Red River in the southeast corner of North Dakota. Many people relate Fargo to the eponymous 1996 Coen Brothers movie starring Oscar-winner Frances McDormand and William H. Macy, though none of the movie was filmed in Fargo. Neighboring Moorhead, Minnesota is across the river from Fargo and the area is generally referred to as Fargo-Moorhead. Fargo is the seat of Cass County.
Fargo is accessible by plane, train, bus or car.
Fargo's Hector International Airport [2] (IATA: FAR) is served by Allegiant, Delta, Frontier, Northwest, and United with flights to Minneapolis, Denver, Chicago, Las Vegas, Salt Lake City, and Phoenix.
Amtrak [3] serves the city with its Empire Builder line, with one train east and one train west every day. The station is located at 420 4th Street North. There are several restaurants near the station, and during the summer you may eat outside overlooking the train tracks. The Empire Builder goes from Seattle to Chicago.
Greyhound [4] and Jefferson Lines [5] serve Fargo. The bus station is at 402 Northern Pacific Ave, phone 701-293-1222. It is one of the few stations in the system that actually has Greyhound maps and model buses for sale. Next door, in the same complex, are connections for Fargo-Moorhead Public Transit buses.
Although still serving Fargo, Greyhound recently cut services to smaller North Dakota cities; Rimrock Stages provides service along I-94 to Billings, while Jefferson Lines serves I-29 north to Winnipeg and south to Kansas City.
Fargo is located at the intersection of Interstate Highways 29 and 94. It's about 230 miles northwest of the Twin Cities on I-94, about a three hour and twenty minute drive.
Bus transportation is available to most parts of the city. They are phasing out the tokens, so if you want a souvenir, get one now. Parking is plentiful, even on the main thoroughfares in downtown areas.
Two interesting landmarks in the surrounding are the KVLY-TV mast and the KXJB-TV mast, the tallest towers on earth.
Great variety of hotels and motels ranging from budget to luxury. Major national chains like Motel 6, Comfort Inn, Best Western, Howard Johnson's, Ramada, Radisson, Courtyard by Marriott, and Travelodge all have Fargo locations.
In addition, you may rent rooms from $300 per month or less. There are signs everywhere and some interesting residential hotels scattered about.
Fargo is a safe city, with little violent crime, however, use common sense especially when it comes to personal property, just as you would anywhere else.
There is free wireless internet access in the food court at the West Acres Shopping Center.
| Routes through Fargo |
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| Bismarck ← West Fargo ← | W  E |
→ Moorhead → Minneapolis |
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FARGO, a city and the county-seat of Cass county, North Dakota, U.S.A., about 2S4 m. W. of Duluth, Minnesota. Pop. (1890) 5664; (1900) 9589, of whom 2564 were foreign-born; (1906 estimate) 13,097. It is served by the Northern Pacific, the Great Northern, and the Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul railways. The city is situated on the W. bank of the Red river of the North, which in 1909 had a navigable depth of only about 2 ft. from Fargo to Grank Forks, and the navigation of which was obstructed at various places by fixed bridges. In the city are Island and Oakgrove parks, the former of which contains a statue (erected by Norwegians in 1908) of Henrik Arnold Wergeland, the Norwegian poet. Fargo is the seat of the North Dakota agricultural college (coeducational), founded in 1890 under the provisions of the Federal "Morrill Act" of 1862; it receives both Federal and state support (the former under the Morrill Act of 1890), and in connexion with it a United States Agricultural Experiment Station is maintained. In 1907-1908 the college had 988 students in the regular courses (including the students in the Academy), 117 in the summer course in steam engineering, and 68 in correspondence courses. At Fargo, also, are Fargo College (nonsectarian, 1887; founded by Congregationalists), which has a college department, a preparatory department, and a conservatory of music, and in 1908 had 310 students, of whom 211 were in the conservatory of music; the Oak Grove Lutheran ladies' seminary (1906) and the Sacred Heart Academy (Roman Catholic). The city is the see of both a Roman Catholic bishop and a Protestant Episcopal bishop; and it is the centre of masonic interests in the state, having a fine masonic temple. There are a public library and a large Y.M.C.A. building. St John's hospital is controlled by Roman Catholic sisters, and St Luke's hospital by the Lutheran Church. Fargo is in a rich agricultural (especially wheat) region, is a busy grain-trading and jobbing centre, is one of the most important wholesale distributing centres for agricultural implements and machinery in the United States, and has a number of manufactures, notably flour. The total value of the city's factory products in 1905 was $1,160,832. Fargo, named in honour of W. G. Fargo of the Wells Fargo Express Company, was first settled as a tent city in 1871, when the Red river was crossed by the Northern Pacific, but was not permanently settled until after the extinction in 1873 of the Indian title to the reservation on which it was situated. It was chartered as a city in 1875. The Milwaukee railway was completed to Fargo in 1884. In June 1893 a large part of the city was destroyed by fire, the loss being more than $3,000,000.
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