Fargo’s namesake had a hand in the community’s early journalism. Banker William G. Fargo offered five hundred dollars to establish a newspaper in Fargo to be named the Fargo Express. Two publishers, A.H. Moore and Seth Boney, from Glyndon, Minnesota, applied for the cash, but their newspaper wasn’t published regularly and it wasn’t in Dakota Territory. However, a newspaper named the Fargo Express did spring up in Fargo. It was the first Dakota Territory paper published in the Red River Valley.