Dakota Datebook: Actress

June 21, 2018 — It was on this date in 1896 that Dorothy Hayes Stickney was born in Dickinson. She was the daughter of Victor Hugo Stickney, also known as the “cowboy doctor.”

Dorothy was the younger of two children, and before she was even a year old , it appeared she was having vision problems. Her parents took her to a specialist in St. Paul, who immediately performed the first of seven operati...