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Lakota squash (great pies):
http://www.heirloomseed.com/dakota.htm

The family tried this one year, also about five years ago. The seeds were from Burpee, and resulted in a squash which looks like the one seen at the link above. The Burpee version is supposedly a reproduction of the original Lakota open pollinated squash, which supposedly went extinct. Gleckler Seedmen (now, a fond memory, although Territorial Seed Company is carrying at least one of their old varieties of tomato) formerly of Metamora OH used to sell a bunch of heirloom North American squash varieties, not sure if Lakota was one of them. Obviously, named after the Lakota Sioux.

Gleckler's Peron Sprayless Tomato:
http://www.territorial-seed.com/stores/1/Peron_Sprayless_P2644C168.cfm

Here's another page which has a picture of (presumably) an extinction survivor, seed source unknown:

http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/61070/
http://davesgarden.com/pf/showimage/93222/

Dave's Garden looks like a great gardening website, every gardener on FR should join. ;')

May be fun to try, look tasty:

Ojo Caliente Melon
http://www.nativeseeds.org/v2/prod.php?prodID=F008

Guarijio Segualco squash
http://www.nativeseeds.org/v2/prod.php?prodID=EM033

There was once a seed offered by one of the gourmet gardening catalogs (either Cook's Garden or Shepherd's Garden Seeds, which a few years ago merged I think) for a tiny, yellow, almost transparent tomato called Golden Pearl. I think that was the name they made up for it (reported that it came from a restaurant in NM or AZ, where it just grew up the walls, and the fruit was harvested for the salads and whatnot). It's very tasty, grows like bunches of grapes, kinda. It appears that Territorial has the very same plant (hard to tell, there are a claimed 5,000+ varieties of tomatoes).

I've found that it's difficult to bring in a harvest (which is continuous), because they're fun to munch up while still in the garden. A few years ago, the fruit that fell off, were wrecked by birds, or what have you wound up all over the garden; the seed overwintered, and the Golden Pearl seeds germinated all over the place. I've managed to keep a small pile of the dried fruit, which has worked in the past to germinate, and plan to grow a lot of these just to replenish my seed supply.

Google turned up a bunch of references to it... Martha Stewart has it as a fave, but I won't hold that against the tomato.

Discussed:
http://www.sperlingnursery.com/InfoSheets/infotomato.pdf
http://www.ssawg.org/OFN-tomatoes.html
http://www.kellogggarden.com/garden/tomato4.html
http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/88697/index.html

Seed source (the only one, apparently):
http://mariseeds.com/2005catalog/cherries.html

Variety, "Snow White", not the same thing, larger fruit:
http://www.territorial-seed.com/stores/1/Snow_White_P2729.cfm

Plant source:
http://www.burkardnurseries.com/BNSearchDetail.asp?BotanicalID=6374

Not a source for Golden Pearl, but another online catalog:
http://www.tradewindsfruit.com/tomato_seeds.htm

Here are a few more ideas. I've bought these seeds locally (at Frank's Nursery & Crafts, which is now out of business chainwide).

Lake Valley Seeds (no online retail sales):
http://www.lakevalleyseed.com/
(look here for Christmas Beans)
http://www.lakevalleyseed.com/2006pdf/Packet.pdf

I just found this with a websearch:

Whatcom Seed Company
http://seedrack.com/indexw.html

I've picked up some seeds at WalMart in recent years, just a few that I couldn't find otherwise, such as Roman Chamomile (that's the perennial kind). In fact, I did go a week or so ago to look for Roman Chamomile, and found it, and bought a couple packets. I think I got a couple of others.

I have nothing against WalMart, but would encourage gardeners to shop around online or out of catalogs arriving in the mail rather than get their seeds at WalMart.

The WalMart website wouldn't show me a seed-ordering page.