Cowboys & Ranchers (Way It Was)

Here are the stories of the earliest pioneers of North Dakota told by those who experienced the decades of the 1870s, 1880s, and 1890s. Recorded in the middle 1930's by interviewers working in a Works Progress Administration (WPA) project, those who settled the land tell "the way it was" for them when they came to the frontier. Gleaned from over 5,000 stories which are stored at the State Historical Society of North Dakota, The Cowboys & Ranchers, Book Three in a series of memories of the frontier experience, collects the personal histories of those who came to Dakota when the buffalo still roamed, brown bear walked among the vast herds of cattle, and unfenced ranches stretched over as much as 800 square miles. Illustrated with photographs from the North Dakota collections, this book follows Book One" The Sod-busters and Book Tow: Norwegian Homesteaders.