BISMARCK, N.D. — Beth Campbell sits behind a desk in the North Dakota Heritage Center, greeting visitors and cheerfully offering tidbits on state history.
Asked if she knows about Carson Wentz, she laughs.
“If you live in North Dakota and you haven’t heard of Carson Wentz,” she says, “you’re living under a rock.”
Across a sprawling lawn in the state Capitol building, tour guide Darlene Neas takes it a few steps further.
“Everyone knows who Carson Wentz is,” she says, “unless you’re in a grave.”
One day, Wentz might have his own exhibit in the state museum, or join the Theodore Roosevelt Rough Rider Hall of Fame luminaries with painted portraits in the first-floor hallway of the Capitol.