After more than a decade of research and composition, The Bismarck-Mandan Encyclopedia is the embodiment of the historic database published on BisManCafe.com – the hyper-local website author Randy Hoffman has owned and maintained since 2007. Featured herein are the people, places, events, and things that have shaped Bismarck-Mandan, North Dakota from past to present in an easy alphabetic arrangement. The Bismarck-Mandan Encyclopedia contains detailed definitions of such terms as A.W. Lucas Company, Alexander McKenzie, Arrowhead Plaza, Big Boy Restaurant, Corwin-Churchill Motors, Edmond Hughes, Fleck Motors, Fort Lincoln Interment Camp, Gold Seal Company, Governor “Wild Bill” Langer, Grand Pacific Hotel, King’s Food Host, Kirkwood Mall, Patterson Hotel, Wheel-A-While, and hundreds more.