Tindall" were motoring along Dacotah Beach Road near Detroit Lakes when they spotted something unusual: a stray monkey ambling toward them. They spotted the Dacotah Beach Grocery Store and probably figured the men gathered outside would come to their rescue. Five years earlier, he jumped into action to help three Fargo women from a monkey. As wild as the Dacotah Beach encounter sounds, it was hardly the only monkey attack making headlines in the 1920s. Contributed / St. Olaf College Yearbook 1931 via e-yearbookA description in his 1931 St. Olaf College yearbook suggests he might have been something of a big man on campus.