482 results for 'South Dakota'

In 1871, Richard DuFour, a factory engineer from Saratoga, New York, receives a telegram from the Federal Government requesting his assistance in the development of a nitroglycerine factory in Creek...

This work tells the personal stories of boys and girls who left home and enlisted in the U.S. military at ages 11 to 16. Many had difficult home lives, some wanted adventure or a better future,...

"The Spirit of the Prairie" is a sequel to "The Seeds of the Prairie". The story of Walter and Lisetta and their growing family continues from 1938 until 1959 in Nebraska and in Europe. Walter and...

It was at Wounded Knee, huddled under a night sky lit by military flares and the searchlights of armored personnel carriers, that Vietnam vet Woody Kipp realized that he, as an American Indian, had...

TRAVELING THROUGH LIFE is a poetic and photographic journey as experienced by a daughter, a wife, a mother- ultimately a woman's personal perspective on this universal path called life.Travel with...

As his family scatters far and wide, sixteen-year-old John Gannon is ready for his next adventure. After he travels to Kansas City to attend high school, he successfully enables his athletically...

Winner, 2024 Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize"A fascinating search for personal and cultural identity." -KirkusThomas C. Gannon's Birding While Indian spans more than...

Memory and History, the second volume of historian Rod Stackelberg's autobiography, picks up his personal and professional reminiscences where his first volume, Out of Hitler's Shadow (2010), left...

If you want to make your Sunday morning services come alive, this remarkably inventive volume is exactly what you've been searching for. It's a terrific library of resources that takes the weekly...

It is 1940 and a tragedy has just occurred outside Tiffin, Iowa. After a bloody collarbone, pieces of flesh, and garments are found on the railroad tracks, local police learn that Finn Fletcher, an...

This workshop held at the University of North Carolina was in the series which started with meetings in the University of New Hampshire (April 1980) and the University of Michigan (April 1981). More...

From its founding in 1929, Railway Express Agency dominated the transportation industry until the 1960s. In return for a monopoly on passenger train service, the express company was obligated to...

Lakotas, Black Robes, and Holy Women makes available in English a rare collection of eyewitness accounts by German Catholic missionaries among the Lakotas in the late nineteenth century. German...

Can four octogenarians, from mid-May to early June, ride 1,000+ miles with minimal discomfort? Spoiler Alert: they can and did, at least two of them. The four classmates from Carleton College...

Toni Larson has a simple life. She works at a diner, and the world makes sense. When two men settle in at her table for breakfast one fateful day, however, this seemingly random meeting will change...

Wilfred Perry Eberhart was born in Yankton, South Dakota but moved to Colorado when he was three years old and his heart never left. He grew up poor in Denver as one of six children with a single...

This is a short, quick, and easy read. Most of these anecdotes are probably just OK, but there should be at least one or two that you will want to tell your friends. Anecdotes are retold in my own...

The Lure of the Black Hills is a historical novel written by Dietrich Lange and published in 1916. The book is set in the late 19th century in the Black Hills region of South Dakota, during the...

While predominantly agrarian, Kansas has a surprisingly rich heritage of labor history and played an active role in the major labor strife of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries...

A broken cowboy...his shining light. Will she be enough to pull him out of the darkness?Draven Harvey came home to Ironhaven, South Dakota, to settle down. The retired Marine was done with serving...

This book, Mechanisms in the Pathogenesis of Enteric Diseases, is the outcome of the First International Rushmore Conference on Mechanisms in the Pathogenesis of En­ teric Diseases, held in September...

My third book is a reflection of my first and second books. Travels across the States, some are wishes, a way of traveling, and some are real happenings. Lots of fiction short-stories, and some are...

Agnes of the Bad Lands is a novel written by John Breckenridge Ellis and published in 1916. The story follows the life of Agnes, a young woman who is forced to leave her home in the Bad Lands of...

Drawing on the rich imagery of rocks and stones in scripture, these powerful messages center around the compelling metaphor of stones (and our willingness to throw them) as representative of our sins...

This charming and poignant contemporary story about two Lakota girls and their Laotian friend illuminates for children and adults the Lakota meaning of family, friendship, life, and death. In the...

One-String Guitar, a novel about the Rwandan Genocide, eerily comes to life following the recent tortures and killings in BurundiOne-String Guitar’s central topic of resiliency after the...

Frank Fools Crow, a spiritual and civic leader of the Teton Sioux, spent nearly a century helping those of every race. A disciplined, gentle man who upheld the old ways, he was aggrieved by the...

This book is a compilation of places that I have experienced visiting. I collaborated all the historical aspects, famous people's marks on society, the attractions, as well as its sports legends and...

Strange events and an undercurrent of tension permeate The Chichi Hoohoo Bogeyman. While secretly exploring an old fort on the South Dakota prairie, three Indian girls encounter a stranger. One of...

The Author has experience in Ice Age Climatology and Geology in the area from the Black Hills, South Dakota to eastern Nebraska with Midland College, the University of Nebraska Department of Geology...

The Lord put on my heart to write Home Is Where the Heart Is Even in a Chicken House. It goes back to the day I was born and my childhood days growing up, days with my parents and living in a chicken...

This book, Mechanisms in the Pathogenesis of Enteric Diseases 2, is an out­ come of the Second International Rushmore Conference on Mechanisms in the Pathogenesis of Enteric Diseases, held September...

The mid-Eighties. No cell phones, no email, no caller ID, no GPS. It was easier then to pass without notice, to be out of touch, to get lost. The Berlin Wall still stood, as did the World Trade...

A trail-blazing ride through America's West...SpenceClay Spencer had to become a man at a very young age. He worked in gold mines and the Comstock Lode silver mine in Nevada and made the cattle drive...