Plains Folk

“Terroir” is a term deployed by wine enthusiasts often with more mystique than precision. ... more

It was a lovely spring morning when we arrived early for Sunday services at Bethany Church... more

In a meeting on campus a few days ago, along with many of the best and brightest at NDSU, ... more

I cannot recall a conversation with Brother Placid Gross that was not a delight. He is, fo... more

We will arrive in the Barossa at peak jacaranda. Reviewing the sentence I just spoke, I re... more

People in Larimore a century ago recognized their veterinarian, Dr. Hermann M. Eisenlohr, ... more

The waterfowl hunters of Dakota Territory were mainly townsmen, who ventured into the coun... more

The first newspaper notice of the City of Saginaw, the railway hunting coach of outdoorsma... more

As the folk culture of duck hunting burgeoned in late nineteenth century, hunting accident... more

When I came to North Dakota, from another prairie state, in 1992, many things seemed famil... more

In late nineteenth century, rabies scares animated communities all over the northern plain... more

At the community level on the prairies, people of the late nineteenth century took threats... more

In May 1886 a physician in Watertown, Dakota Territory, was bitten by what press reports s... more

There is a word out of fashion in this era of specialization, referring to a notable type ... more

It was Father Bill Sherman who brought the authorial papers of Z’dena Trinka into the coll... more

Come September, there will be champagne times. For now, we have first chapters.

You can see it taking shape in pages of cursive in the letterpress copybooks of J. B. Powe... more

In the early days of the Institute for Regional Studies, at NDSU (established 1950, the co... more

The common bullhead catfish on the northern plains is the black bullhead. The state record... more

There is an outpouring this summer of events, as well as books from North Dakota State Uni... more