Conservation of Natural Resources: North Dakota

Dietrich, Irvine T.

Hove, John

North Dakota Inst for

While there are many excellent publications written about the plant world, there has been no book available which deals specifically with the trees and shrubs of the Northern Great Plains. This is why it is particularly noteworthy that Mr. Donald G. Hoag, the author, has so painstakingly and successfully brought together the scholarly information presented in this book. This information can be as readily used by the amateur who enjoys planting a few trees and shrubs around the house as by the botanist who wants and needs exact and specific technical information. Another feature of this book is the illustrated winter key. Most keys for plant identification are summer keys depending upon fruit, flowers and leaves for identifying features. A reliable key makes plant material readily identifiable at any time of the year. The summer key also makes use of features evident all the year.

Trees and Shrubs for the Northern Plains

Hoag, Donald G.

All of the poems in this collection were originally published in Dacotah Territory Magazine; we decided against selecting any poems we reprinted from other magazines or books, and also against selecting either prose poems or translations. What we sought was always two-fold: to tap into the poetry of place flourishing around us, but never to be simply limited by it; to take a stand against the placelessness of American society, but not with "down-homeism," or ... with any kind of ism. A sense of place as we tried to define it, then, was quite different from many people's notion of regionalism, and it was that end we sought: We see ourselves, then, as importers and exporters, seeking the best work from both new and established writers no matter what their place - that unique vitality which partakes of both the local and international simulaneously. In general terms, what brought about Dacotah Territory was a recognition of the talents and energies around us (and the scant number

Dacotah Territory

Vinz, Mark

Ray, Grace

ND, over a century old, has more known about the state's soil and crop conditions than the national character of its peoples. That's how William Sherman, a pastor at St. Michael's Church in Grand Forks, and professor of sociology at ND State University, describes it. The book provides a comprehensive listing of the large number of ethnic groups that settled ND. With Census Bureau data, railroad records, church archives, country land atlases, and local sources and correspondents he tells of peoples comprising the state's rural population: the more numerous Norwegians, Germans, German-Russians, and Anglo-Americans; and also the less numerically significant ones, as Jews, Blacks, Syrians, Czechs, Swedes, and others. Double-paged maps show settlement patterns and ethnic topography of each of the six sections ND is divided for purposes of the study. In these commentaries, cultural pursuits and religious affiliations and habits and other interesting nuggets of information are given. Sherman deals with indigenous and immigrant groups by using well-reasoned paragraphs and prose, a style well-suited to describe ND and the nature of its great people. One important point Sherman raises is that national origins may underlie the behavioral patterns of present day relatives of those early settlers. ND was one of the last states settled and in the late 1880's had one of the greatest percentages of foreign born inhabitants in the USA. Many residents still remember the passage to this land. ND residents often seek to "know not only such usual information as name and home address, but also nationality. This is a unique question. In much of the US such knowledge is of little consequence, but for a North Dakotan it can be significant."

Prairie Mosaic an Ethnic Atlas of Rural North Dakota

Sherman, William C.

I'm Thinking It over: Spectator 1974-1984

Baccus, Jim

Citizens As Soldiers: History of the North Dakota National Guard

History

Smith, Glenn

Cooper, Jerry

Americas

Researching the Germans from Russia is an annotated bibliography of the Germans from Russia Heritage Collection (GRHC), North Dakota State University Libraries, Fargo. GRHC is the most comprehensive and detailed annotated bibliography in the United States and Canada of books and materials about the Germans from Russia. Listed in the publication are books on the Black Sea Germans, Hutterites, Mennonites, Vohlynian Germans, Volga Germans, and Germans from Russia in the two Dakotas and throughout the United States. Also included are church histories, literature, folklore, sound recordings, cassette tapes, community and county histories for North Dakota, family histories, maps, newspapers, census material, cookery, and periodicals. A title index, name index, and a colony-district index provide easy access to the publication. Photographs are found throughout. Professor Timothy J. Kloberdanz writes in the preface to Researching the Germans from Russia, "As the mere size of this bibliography

Researching the Germans from Russia: Annotated Bibliography of the Germans from Russia Heritage Collection

Reference

Miller, Michael M.

Genealogy

Plains Folk was seven years in the making. The combined effort of scholars who specialize in North Dakota matters: three historians, an anthropologist, a political scientist, and a sociologist.Over forty different national groups are discussed: their origins, personalities, customs, successes and failures, even their festivals and their foods.Is North Dakota a melting pot? A mosaic? A patchwork quilt? Which group was the largest? The most patriotic? Prestigious? What happened during the land boom years? World War I? The Dirty Thirties? You'll find the answers in this volume.You'll find some surprises: Gypsies, Blacks, Japanese, Bulgarians, Syrians! You'll get a good look at the state's Jews, Poles, French, Ukrainians. Included are new perspectives on the German Peoples who came from both the homeland and eastern Europe; there are also new insights into the settlers of Norwegian and British Isles backgrounds.It is a basic source book, with hundreds of illustrations, dozens of maps and tables, census data and an extensive index.

Plains Folk: North Dakota's Ethnic History

A lively and insightful account of the station's advances in agricultural research.David Danbom's "Our Purpose is to Serve" is a probing, insightful and lively history of the first hundred years of the North Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station. The NDAES began in 1890 as one of a national network of state research facilities created by Congress in the Hatch Act of 1887. Through the years the NDAES has been an important part of the national as well as an international scientific community. But, as the author relates, it is also an integral part of the state of North Dakota. It is unique because it is the only research institution in the world devoted to North Dakota agriculture and its problems. As such, its story is closely intertwined with the story of the state and its agricultural tradition.The NDAES has devoted itself throughout its history to improving agriculture in the state and to enhancing the well-being of North Dakota farmers. This book is the story of how it has attempted to reach these goals, the difficulties it has encountered and the successes it has achieved along the way.

Our Purpose Is to Serve: The First Century of the North Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station

Danbom, David

Biographies & Memoirs

Elwyn Robinson's sweeping HISTORY OF NORTH DAKOTA has become one of America's classic state histories. It has been reviewed as "astonishingly comprehensive" and "fascinating." One of the state's great professors and historians takes into account not only politics, but sociology, economics, ethnology, theology, nature studies, and geography to describe North Dakota to the world and to itself. 
Geography, in particular, formed the basis of Robinson's historical interpretation. His "too-much mistake," the belief that North Dakota built too much, too fast, in an isolated area buffeted by a difficult climate, has become the guiding principle for a quarter century of historical debate on Dakota plains history. 
Long out of print, Robinson's 1966 work has now been reissued by the North Dakota Institute for Regional Studies at North Dakota State University, Fargo. Included are a new preface by UND history professor D. Jerome Tweton, and a new postscript by NDSU history professor David B. Danbom. Both recognized experts on plains history, Professor Tweton examines the themes and the time of Robinson, while Professor Danbom brings the state's history from the mid-1960s to the present. Also new in this edition are 41 photos and illustrations.

History of North Dakota

Robinson, Elwyn B.

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