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2) North Dakota
Author
Series
Publisher
Arcadia Pub
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
128 p. : chiefly ill. ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Distributed by The University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
viii, 364 p., [16] p. of col. plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A compilation of the first seven years (2005-2011) of a column published every Sunday in the Bismarck Tribune on life in North Dakota and the growing influence of the oil boom.
Author
Language
English
Description
Land is often known by the names of past owners. "Emma's Land," "Gina's quarter," and "the Ingeborg Land" are reminders of the many women who homesteaded across North Dakota in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Land in Her Own Name records these homesteaders' experiences as revealed in interviews with surviving homesteaders and their families and friends, land records, letters, and diaries. These women's accounts tell of locating...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
x, 272 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Empirically proving that -- no matter where you are -- kids wanna rock, this is Chuck Klosterman's hilrious memoir of growing up as a shameless metalhead in Wyndmere, North Dakotoa (population: 498). With a voice like Ace Frehley's guitar, Klosterman hacks his way through hair-band history, beginning with that fateful day in 1983 when his older brother brought home Motley Crue's Shout at the Devil. The fifth-grade Chuck wasn't quite ready to rock...
10) Pacing Dakota
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Publisher
North Dakota State University Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
241 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A collection of essays reflecting on the history and culture of the Great Plains of North America,speaking with the mingled voices of scholarly historian, outdoor sportsman, culinary enthusiast, lifelong Lutheran, and prairie farmboy. Historian Thomas Isern prowls prairie churches, finds forgotten artifacts, and gathers cherished stories from Williston to Wahpeton and points beyond. He situates his encounters along the way into the canon of literary...
Author
Series
North Dakota centennial volume 4
Publisher
Dakota Graphic Society
Pub. Date
1988, c1985
Physical Desc
128 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 22 x 28 cm.
Language
English
14) Prairie beat
Author
Publisher
Redhead Pub
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
xii, 212 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
iUniverse
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
181 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
These 8 short stories add details to the lives of the Cockburn family and other residents of the fictional town of Menninger, North Dakota first introduced in the novel The Song Is Ended and continued in the novel The Dark Between the Stars. They are visits to small town life from the early years of the twentieth century to the 1960s.
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2007, c2006
Physical Desc
xxiii, 272 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
A wry memoir about a family farm, a father, and a daughter, and why it's so hard to go home again. Debra Marquart grew up on a family farm in rural North Dakota--on land her family had worked for generations. From the earliest age she knew she wanted out; surely life had more to offer than this unyielding daily grind, she thought. But she was never able to abandon it completely. In this distinctive memoir, she chronicles this process of flight and...