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Thomas D. Isern
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in Barton County KS, The United States
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October 2011
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Pacing Dakota
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2018
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3 editions
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Dakota Circle
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2000
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Bull Threshers and Bindlestiffs: Harvesting and Threshing on the North American Plains
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1990
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2 editions
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Custom combining on the Great Plains: A history
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1981
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4 editions
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Kansas Land
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1988
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Dakota Circle by Thomas D. Isern (2000-11-03)
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Bull Threshers and Bindlestiffs: Harvesting and Threshing on the North American Plains
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The Antelope Valley Station to Neset Transmission Project: A Critical Review
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2014
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The Welk Homestead: A Source Book
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2015
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Touring German-Russian Country from Ashley, North Dakota
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A long absence from this blog, but now emerging from the chaos to try to get communications in order. (Except for email, that will never be up to date.) Here now I'll share an edifying bit of reading from my research yesterday in the collections of the Institute for Regional Studies, specifically the Lawrence Root Waldron Collection. L. R. Waldron was the founder of the Dickinson sub-station for a
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Way too many irons in the fire, but an underlying animus underlying most of my writing these days is the production of a new history of the Great Plains for the 21st Century. Reading heavily, making notes, revising the outline, drafting germ papers t
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“Mountains are all right, I guess, because you can get on top of them and get a good view of the plains.”
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“In Conclusion, let us inquire what has been and what is to be the Meaning of the Great Plains in American Life”
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“We agreed that no one who had not grown up in a little prairie town could know anything about it. It was a kind of freemasonry, we said.”
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“Once in his life a man ought to concentrate his mind upon the remembered earth. He ought to give himself up to a particular landscape in his experience; to look at it from as many angles as he can, to wonder about it, to dwell upon it. He ought to imagine that he touches it with his hands at every season and listens to the sounds that are made upon it. He ought to imagine the creatures there and all the faintest motions of the wind. He ought to recollect the glare of the moon and the colors of the dawn and dusk.”
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“For history is a pontoon bridge. Every man walks and works at its building end, and has come as far as he has over the pontoons laid by others he may never have heard of.”
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“Why not a new village of farmers, citizens of the world through schools and radio and space-consuming transportation, grouped together in friendly sociability, building directly upon the soil?”
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