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In my mail appears a thoughtful gift, a book, inscribed to me by one of the authors: The Missouri: America’s Longest River, edited by Jon K....
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Plains Folk is a commentary devoted to life on the great plains of North Dakota. Written by Tom Isern of West Fargo, North Dakota, and read in newspapers across the region for years, Plains...
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20 of 31 episodesHomesteading Virtues
It says something about me as a historian that I am preoccupied with the origins of things. I mean, I seldom just launch into an abstract in...
Cowboys and Indians
A half-century ago—actually, a little more than that—I charted my course as a professional historian by choosing to specialize in Western Am...
Tractors on the Wrong Road
I know I used to have one, but it’s disappeared, along with the cause it celebrated—one of those old black-mesh American Agriculture ball ca...
The Chapeau de Morès
In sublime overview of the valley of the Little Missouri River, in the Badlands of North Dakota, stands a simple but elegant residence from...
First Fascist
A powerful new biography of Antoine-Amédée-Marie-Vincent Manca Amat de Vallombrosa, here generally known as the Marquis de Morès, has conseq...
The Corn-cob Pipe
James W. Foley Jr., who on his passing in 1939 was eulogized as “North Dakota’s unofficial poet laureate,” has always intrigued me. Not beca...
Cooking with Olive Johnson
An old friend left an orphan cookbook on our doorstep, and it proved to be of more than passing interest. It is a centennial cookbook from t...
Unfinished Business
Two conferences of regional scholars, one in Lincoln, Nebraska, the other in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, have taken the future of the Great P...
Aurora
Since publication of Thom Tammaro’s new book of poems, Aurora, by North Dakota State University Press, I have been present at two venues whe...
Lilac Days
Finally I found it, this song people were telling me about; found it in the Alfred G. Arvold Collection of the Institute for Regional Studie...
New Life Will Arise
There is this group of people that gathers now and then in a converted gas station in Rapid City for what they call the Morning Fill Up. The...
The Hungry Bachelor
Christmas Eve, 2015, on the Montana Hi-Line, somewhere near Glasgow, in a one-room school called Willow Bend. Miss Miller had prepared her p...
Wisdom from the Warden
Early in his new memoir from North Dakota State University Press, Tough but Fair: Reformation of a Prison, Memoir of a Warden, Winston Satra...
When Our Fields of Flax Are Blooming
If you are familiar with the face or name of Henry R. Martinson, it is likely because of the classic documentary film of 1978, Northern Ligh...
Charlie and Cedric
Exploring the sandhills countryside in search of something, I stepped into a white frame Lutheran church along the road and found, on a tabl...
The Spelling Bee Craze
In Dakota Territory, the outbreak of spelling bees in the late 1880s was commonly referred to as a “craze.” Since publication of The Hoosier...
An American Spectacle
“The spelling bee at the Baptist church Tuesday evening was quite a lively entertainment,” so says a press report from Jamestown in April 18...
Fish Fries
In a lovely book of 2008, America Eats, author Pat Willard puts fish fries into her subtitle, but hardly mentions them in her book-length di...
The Knights of Leisure
In Bottineau during the late 1880s, there emerged an association of men “on the ragged edge of civilization,” as one of them said, in a boom...