Gordon MacGregor was born in Fargo, North Dakota, January 28, 1903, to Dr. and Mrs. Murdoch MacGregor.  He attended the University of Wisconsin and then the University of North Dakota, graduating from there in 1925 with a BA degree. After graduation he went to work for the Fargo Forum, leaving in 1926 to become managing editor of the Bismarck Tribune. On June 1, 1930, he returned to Fargo to become publisher of the Fargo News. He later returned to the Bismarck Tribune as managing editor, and while he was there the paper won a 1940 Pulizer Prize for most useful service of any paper. His articles on the state's grass cover and irrigation potentialities also won renown. In September, 1940, he left to become editor-manager of the Dickinson Press.

The MacGregor Collection contains correspondence and subject files. In the correspondence is a 1930 letter concerning New Rockford Park, a 1932 letter from S. W. Thompson about Missouri Diversion, and several letters to and from the Ripley "Believe It or Not" radio show (1937) concerning an appearance by Chief White Bull on the show.   Also there are articles written by MacGregor on cattle ranching, the Garrison Diversion project, the Des Champs family at Fort Union, and the battles of Big Mound and Killdeer Mountains. 
 

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