• Taverns, July 31, 2003
• The Butterfly, July 24, 2003
• Micropoli, July 17, 2003
• Fall Suppers, July 10, 2003
• Corpus Christi, July 3, 2003

• Party Lines, June 26, 2003
• Prairie Recreation, June 19, 2003
• Best of the Plains , June 12, 2003
• Minnie H, June 5, 2003

• Hoops, May 29, 2003
• Sod Shanties, May 22, 2003
• Letters from Readers, May 15, 2003
• Moravian Brass, May 8, 2003
• Quonsets, May 1, 2003

• Clinker Rock, April 24, 2003
• On the Ice, April 17, 2003
• Bakken Homestead, April 10, 2003
• Grasshoppers, April 3, 2003

• Historic Sites, March 24, 2003
• Prairie Dogs & Coyotes, March 20, 2003
• Rabbit Proof Fence, March 13, 2003
• Great Wildlife, March 6, 2003

• Extension Records, February 27, 2003
• Poutine Bison, February 20, 2003
• Hot Dishes, February 14, 2003
• Bison Inquest, February 6, 2003

• Cream of Wheat, January 30, 2003
• Calico’s, January 23, 2003
• Goat Game, January 17, 2003
• Blackfeet Tales, January 9, 2003
• Waterfowl Shooting, January 2, 2003

• Brokaw Book, December 26, 2002
• Carl Ben Eielson, December 19, 2002
• Cradle Hymn, December 12, 2002
• Babbs Fire, December 9, 2002

• Sons of Martha, November 28, 2002
• Leonid Meteors, November 21, 2002
• Bison Boheme, November 14, 2002
• Pearls, November 7, 2002

• Bison Cookery, October 31, 2002
• Section 27, October 29, 2002
• Grass and Sky, October 17, 2002
• Windmills, October 10, 2002
• Bohemian Alps, October 3, 2002

• Threshing Notebook, September 26, 2002
• Turkey & Lefse, September 19, 2002
• Dazey, September 12, 2002
• Iron Crosses, September 6, 2002

• Cutting Kraut, August 30, 2002
• Ladbury Wedding, August 23, 2002
• Heroes, August 15, 2002
• Borderlands, August 8, 2002
• Searching for Athens, August 2, 2002

• Kiowa Hymns, July 25, 2002
• Prairie Populist, July 18, 2002
• Words and Juneberries, July 11, 2002
• Prairie Dogs, July 3, 2002

• Jack’s Cafe, June 27, 2002
• The Stegner Homestead, June 20, 2002
• Grassland Ecology, June 6, 2002

• A Grand Forks Inventory, May 31, 2002
• Wind, May 23, 2002
• The Lakota Way, May 16, 2002
• The Boundary Hut, May 9, 2002
• The Omaku Hotel, May 2, 2002

• Letters from the Dust Bowl, April 18, 2002
• Montana and I, April 11, 2002
• Devil’s Tower, April 4, 2002

• A Journey, March 28, 2002
• Three Things, March 21, 2002
• Rediscovering, March 14, 2002
• The Saga of Seaman, March 7, 2002

• John Deere Leg, February 28, 2002
• Kolaches, February 21, 2002
• The Botany of Desire, February 14, 2002
• Bobwhites in the Graveyard, February 7, 2002

• Rainy Mountain, January 31, 2002
• Lone Wolf, January 24, 2002
• Arbor Day, January 17, 2002
• Arbor Lodge, January, 10, 2002
• Doc Olson’s Rock Garden, January 3, 2002

• Nature of Nebraska, December 27, 2001
• Perch Eggs, December 20, 2001
• Sprucing Up, December 13, 2001
• Broken Hearts and Bison, December 6, 2001

• Cookbooks, November 29, 2001
• Home Town Legends, November 21, 2001
• A North Dakota Travel Guide, November 15, 2001
• The Lindaas Barn Dance, November 8, 2001
• Talking Community, November 1, 2001

• Turkeys and Kraut, October 25, 2001
• The Mammoth: A Once and Future Plains Creature?, October 18, 2001
• Peace Like a River, October 11, 2001
• Great Plains Adjectives, October 4, 2001

• Rare and Glorious Days, September 20, 2001
• In Search of Legends, September 13, 2001
• WPA Privy in Need of Repair, September 6, 2001

• The Dream Society, August 23, 2001
• Science and Policy, August 16, 2001
• The Prairie in Her Eyes, August 9, 2001
• A Soldier's Grave, August 2, 2001

• Common Sense and Memory, July 26, 2001
• A Sermon in Stone, July 19, 2001
• Traveling Highway 81, July 12, 2001
• The State of Bison, July 5, 2001

• Drive-ins to Die For, June 28, 2001
• Loaves Without Fishes–A Plains Depiction, June 21, 2001
• Cleaning up the ‘Too-much Mistake,’ June 14, 2001
• On Labradors and Grasslands, June 7, 2001

• Pictures of the Plains, May 31, 2001
• Prairie Birds, May 24, 2001
• Preserve the Heritage, May 17, 2001
• Plan to Make History, May 10, 2001
• A Meeting of Cultures, May 3, 2001

• What’s a Flickertail?, April 26, 2001
• Ranchers and Poets: Mustangs or Coyotes?, April 19, 2001
• Settling the Grasslands of New Zealand, April 12, 2001
• The Plains of New Zealand, April 5, 2001

• Improving Prairie Plant Life, March 29, 2001
• Aesthetics and the Future, March 22, 2001
• Pinochle Night, March 15, 2001
• The North Dakota Rant, March 8, 2001
• Shining Moments of Class B Basketball, March 1, 2001

• The Case of the Missing Goat, February 22, 2001
• On Roads and Road Books, February 15, 2001
• Unwanted Bread, February 8, 2001
• Checking out the Regional Cuisine, February 1, 2001

• Newcomers Have an Impact on Plains Culture, January 25, 2001
• Peeling Back the Layers on I-94, January 18, 2001
• Land of the Dakotahs is Regional Classic, January 11, 2001
• The Lewis and Clark ‘X Files,’ January 4, 2001

• Six-man Football was a Part of Regional History, December 28, 2000
• Remembering Six-man Football, December 21, 2000
• Taming the Wild Missouri, December 14, 2000
• Buffalo Springs–Listening to the Past, December 7, 2000

• An Advent Lesson of Acceptance, November 30, 2000
• The Bison Business Canadian Style, November 22, 2000
• Hockey and Swimming Holes, November 16, 2000
• Fried’s Knoepfle Soup, November 9, 2000
• Collecting Specimens, November 2, 2000

• Six-man football -- the Game of the Plains, October 26, 2000
• Tasting the Bush Plums, October 19, 2000
• Wild Stone Heart, October 12, 2000
• Social Capital Needed, October 5, 2000

• Honoring Skeletons, September 28, 2000
• Ghost Towns and the National Media, September 21, 2000
• Women Needed on the Land, September 14, 2000
• White Bass and Sandhills Salsa, September 7, 2000
• Stone Hands and the 'Holy Cost', August 31, 2000

• Goodbye Cruel World, August 24, 2000
• Buffalo Commons or Mammoth Savannah? August 17, 2000
• It Just Doesn't Get Any Better, August 10, 2000
• A Geography of Hope, August 3, 2000

• Dances with Strangers, July 27, 2000
• Legends, the Sequel, July 20, 2000
• And the Legends Live on, July 13, 2000
• What He’s Done ... Now, July 6, 2000

• Culinarily Speaking ..., June 29, 2000
• Making (Some of It) Up As I Go Along, June 22, 2000
• What the Doktors Prescribe, June 15, 2000
• Searching for Ethnic Food at Home on the Northern Plains, June 8, 2000
• Locating Place in Landmarks, June 1, 2000

• Missing the Direction of Place, May 25, 2000
• Inspired by Jell-O, May 18, 2000
• A Lesson about Place, May 11, 2000
• A Storyteller's First Novel, May 4, 2000

• It Might Be a Girl's Job, April 27, 2000
• Leadership that Avoids the Claw, Clobbering Machine and Clipper, April 20, 2000
• A Visit to the Red Center, April 13, 2000
• People Live There, April 6, 2000

• Up in Smoke, and It's a Pity, March 30, 2000
• Husbandry from a Husband and Wife, March 23, 2000
• Alphabetically, According to Author, March 16, 2000
• A Sustaining Encore, March 9, 2000
• A Daughter Remembers Well, March 2, 2000

• Mustering with a Bird's-Eye View, February 24, 2000
• Reporting on Pests, February 17, 2000
• Bunnies to the Nth, February 10, 2000
• And They Called the Wind ..., February 3, 2000

• Seeing the Symbols; Believing in Stories, January 27, 2000
• Unearthing Bones and Humility, January 20, 2000
• Seeing Red-Eye in Tea Leaves, January 13, 2000
• Author Encourages Us to Stop and Smell Stronger Coffee, January 6, 2000

• Gaining Respect Through What We Eat, December 23, 1999
• Ahead of Schedule, But None Too Soo, December 16, 1999
• A Book about Families and Possibilities, December 9, 1999
• It's Largely Been a Matter of Choice, December 2, 1999

• Professional Homemakers Near Their Range, November 24, 1999
• Georgia, on the Mind, November 18, 1999
• Building an Arc of Retail Trade, November 10, 1999
• Seeing a Different Reflection in the Storefront Window, November 4, 1999

• The Driving Beet is Allegro, October 28, 1999
• Experience, Pure and Sensory, October 21, 1999
• Feeling Like Royalty at the Chateau, October 14, 1999
• Reporting from the Field and Feedlot, October 7, 1999

• North Dakota Video Documentary on Lewis and Clark Available, September 30, 1999
• Noticeably Absent, September 23, 1999
• Building Backward, Repatriating the Past, September 16, 1999
• Web (Sites) of Activity, September 9, 1999
• Finding Meaning from the Landscape, September 2, 1999

• Emulating the Teacher, Not his Lesson, August 26, 1999
• Self-Fulfilling a Reputation? August 19, 1999
• A Place Where Co-operation Works, August 12, 1999
• Of Pastureland and Peter Perrin, August 5, 1999

• A Modest Correction, July 22, 1999
• Rehabilitating, with Effect, July 15, 1999
• Breathing Life into Dusty History, July 8, 1999
• Sketching Humanness, July 1, 1999

• Disciplining a Myth, June 24, 1999
• Siting Oases on the Desert, June 17, 1999
• Rhubarb on the Rocks, June 10, 1999
• Traveling with the WPA, June 3, 1999

• A Snapshot in the 'City of Bridges', May 27, 1999
• A SHORT Portage, Mr. President?, May 20, 1999
• Much Ado about Madoc, May 13, 1999
• Canine Heroes of Western American History, May 6, 1999

• The 'X-Files' of Discovery, April 29, 1999
• Buildings with Bales, April 22, 1999
• A Chronicle of Sensory Experience, April 15, 1999
• Looking for a Few More Good Ones, April 8, 1999
• Sod Houses and Social Structures, April 1, 1999

• The Road Sign of a Cross, March 25, 1999
• Exploring the Empress, March 18, 1999
• Artfully Rendering the Memories of Main, March 11, 1999
• Puzzling about Everyday Life, March 4, 1999

• Matching a Place with a Name, February 25, 1999
• Writing about Life—and the Weather, February 18, 1999
• An Account of the Unaccountably Absent Cowbell, February 11, 1999
• Visionary Grassroots Art, February 4, 1999

• Ukrainians Unique, Typical in their Plains Experiences, January 28, 1999
• The Well-Dressed Mallard, January 21,1999
• The Need to Know Plains Indians from Afield, January 14, 1999
• A Misguided True Believer, January 7, 1999

• More Silos Take Shape, December 24,1998
• Plains Hoopless, December 17, 1998
• Posterity Should Leave Them Alone, Well Enough, December 10, 1998
• Ten Ways to be History,  December 3, 1998

• Hoping to Preserve the Dreams, November 26, 1998
• Staking a Silo Claim, November 19, 1998
• In the Shadow of the Concrete Colossus, November 12, 1998
• Book Touts Prairie Skyscrapers, November 5, 1998

• In Search of Iron Crosses, October 29, 1998
• Giants in the Earth, October 22, 1998
• The Hired Girl—an Obscurity of Rural History, October 15, 1998
• Preserving Quilts—Finding Symbolism in a 'Persian Pickle', October 8, 1998
• Swallow Devotee, October 1, 1998

• Plum Full, September 24, 1998
• Currant Cuisine, September 17, 1998
• Barns—Bygone but Not Forgotten, September 10, 1998
• Chickens, Eggs and Houses, September 3, 1998

• Granaries and Northern Plains Wheat Culture, August 27, 1998
• Stucco, a Mix That Served Well, August 20, 1998
• Homestead Shanties, Northern-Plains Style, August 13, 1998
• A Rule of the Cook Car—'Gendered Space', August 6, 1998

• Historical Positioning System, Confabulation Variety, July 30, 1998
• Historical Positioning System, Satellite Variety, July 23, 1998
• "Goodnight, Nebraska", July 16, 1998
• Badlands Where A Park Was Born , July 9, 1998
• Watermelon Days—All You Can Haul , July 2, 1998

• A Sense of Theater, June 25, 1998
• Tie That Mail!, June 18, 1998
• Dakota Territory, June 11, 1998
• Titans of the Wheat Belt, June 4, 1998

• It’s Still There, May 28, 1998
• Born, Lived, Died: Bowesmont, N.D., May 21, 1998
• To Bury A Town, May 14, 1998
• Exploits of a Prairie Hunting Guide, May 7, 1998

• Muskrats and Mink, April 30, 1998
• Fox Money, April 23, 1998
• Skunk Hunting, April 16, 1998
• The Elephant Pump, April 9, 1998
• Ole and Michelle Pfeiffer, April 2, 1998

• Matt Dillon, Upgraded, March 26, 1998
• More of "You Must Be From North Dakota If...", March 19, 1998
• Don't Pun-ish Us Any More, March 12, 1998
• Real Women, March 5, 1998

• Jacy?, February 26, 1998
• Recess Games From the Mail Bag, February 19, 1998
• North DaWhat?, February 12, 1998
• Tales Told and Untold, February 5, 1998

• Bison Back, January 29, 1998
• Sexist Saloons and Gendered Cafes, January 22, 1998
• Who Are We Now?, January 15, 1998
• "Steal Sticks" and "Norsky Ball", January 8, 1998

• A North Dakotan If..., December 31, 1997
• Christmas Eve, 1944, December 18, 1997
• Old Sod Shanty-Walsh County Version, December 11, 1997
• Sod Shanty Gets Around, December 4, 1997

• Self-Determination, November 26, 1997
• Wedding Farce, November 20, 1997
• A Sense of Place, November 13, 1997
• Seasons, Senses and Grandmothers, November 5, 1997

• Legend-Tripping, October 30, 1997
• Plum Butter, October 23, 1997
• A Place to Call Home, October 16, 1997
• Science or Myth, October 9, 1997
• Native Song, October 2, 1997

• Games, Games, and More Games, September 25, 1997
• Time for Recess, September 18, 1997
• A Fine Plains Portrait, Faintly Flawed, September 11, 1997
• Bucking the USDA and Just About Everybody, September 4, 1997

• Summer Fallow, August 28, 1997
• Recess Games, August 21, 1997
• St. Mary's Shrine, August 14, 1997
• Balancing Above the Little Missouri, August 7, 1997

• Cable Cars, July 31, 1997
• Small Town Allure, July 24, 1997
• Pilgrimage to Eastend, July 17, 1997
• Thrashing Around in Settlement Books, July 10, 1997
• Prairie Prejudice, July 3, 1997

• Red Cloud, Warrior And Statesman, June 26, 1997
• Tough Duty, June 19, 1997
• Welding Art On The Sky, June 12, 1997
• The Long Haul, June 5, 1997

• An Incredible Lightness Of Dessert, May 29, 1997
• Adapt Or Vanish, May 22, 1997
• Ringing Rafters, May 15, 1997
• Half-Century Veterinarian, May 8, 1997
• Big Fish Recipes, May 1, 1997

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Tom Isern, Professor of History
Minard Hall 412C, NDSU
Fargo, ND 58105-5075
(701)231-8339
Thomas.Isern@ndsu.nodak.edu