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Thomas’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Thomas’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Thomas D. Isern’s Followers (83)
346 books
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35 friends
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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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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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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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Heritage Themes of the Northern Plains: Book Discussions in the Northern Plains National Heritage Area
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Reading with Tuck
I used to read to Angie the History Dog, especially when a new issue of Ducks Unlimited arrived. Since Tuck is now 6 months old, I figured she would enjoy the same exercise, and I was right. Her attention span needs development, though. From my own point of view, I got two things from the reading this morning.
1. The publisher's column, "Where the Ducks Are," resonated with a short essay I have dra Read more of this blog post »
1. The publisher's column, "Where the Ducks Are," resonated with a short essay I have dra Read more of this blog post »
Thomas’s Recent Updates
"(The review in the Economist which recommended this book to me is here, and their obituary of Kapuściński is also available, here.)
I’ve recently been categorizing my reading material into “fast” and “slow”, but after reading Kapuściński’s Travels wit" Read more of this review » |
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Ike's Road Trip: How Eisenhower's 1919 Convoy Paved the Way for the Roads We Travel
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Convoy on the Plains
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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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Great Plains Book Club
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Discussion forum for readers of the Great Plains. General discussion is come one, come all for books of the Great Plains. Coffee Klatch Annex is speci ...more
Goodreads Librarians Group
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A group for New Zealand book lovers (and authors) and lovers of New Zealand books (and books in general). A place to share what we are reading, introd ...more
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"Interested in history - then you have found the right group". The History Book Club is the largest history and nonfiction group on Goodread ...more
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A group for all Australian Goodreads members (and those interested in Australia), no matter what they read!
