The Sod-Busters: The North Dakota Frontier Experience (Way It Was)

Tweton, J.

Grass-Roots Press

The way it was: The North Dakota frontier experience

Description from the back cover: "Here are the stories of the earliest pioneers of North Dakota told by those who experienced the decades of the 1879s, 1880s, and 1890s. Recorded in the middle 1930s 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. Norwegian Homesteaders, Book Two in a series of memories of the frontier experience, collects sixteen of the personal histories of those who came to that endless sea of grass that challenged their strength and spirit as they broke the sod and farmed the land. Each book is illustrated with photographs from North Dakota collections."

The Way It Was: The North Dakota Frontier Experience - Book Two: Norwegian Homesteaders

J. Tweton

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.

Cowboys & Ranchers (Way It Was)

Biographies & Memoirs

Here are the stories of the hardy North Dakota pioneers who came to North Dakota in search of land and an opportunity to live in freedom in the last part of the 1800's and early 1900's. Recorded in the middle 1930's by interviewers working in the Works progress Adminstration WPA project, those who settled the land tell "the way it was" for them when they came to the frontier.

Germans from Russia Settlers: The North Dakota Frontier Experience (Way It Was)

History

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 1930s by interviewers working in a Works Progress Ad-ministration (WPA) project, those who came to the first towns in northern Dakota Territory and North Dakota tell the way it was when they came to the frontier. Gleaned from over 5,000 stories which are stored at the State Historical Society of North Dakota, The Townspeople, Book Six, the final book in a series of memories of the frontier experience, collects sixteen of the personal histories of those who came and lived in the first towns, most often created by the railroad companies as a center of commerce for those who came to break the sod and farm the land, that endless sea of grass that challenged their strength and spirit. This book and the other five in the series are illustrated with photographs from North Dakota collections.

The Townspeople (Way It Was...)

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Bed and Breakfast

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Paranormal

All Night

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Literature & Fiction

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The Clear-Out

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Anna Sweet, ex-cop turned waitress, is bar-hopping her way across the U.S.A. But a middle-of-the-night phone call to Annas hotel room in Kermit, Texas, is about to end her life on the road. The brakes on her sister Cheris car have failed, and shes lying banged up in an Ottawa hospital. Cheri warns that unless Anna comes right home, shell be dead by Christmas.Anna has more than enough reason to stay away from her home town. Yet her sisters terror is a calling card she cannot ignore. Is Cheris life really in danger? Or is this another bid for attention? A doubting Anna Sweet is about to find out . . . A perfect book choice for new readers.

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