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Alongside the fireplace in our study is the Big Bison Chair. I bought it at a swanky furniture store on the east side of Fort Worth. The gal who sold it…

There came a lovely letter from Mrs. Betty Lehman, of Holtville, California. She seems to have been moved to post by the write-up in the most recent NDSU…

This new book by three scholars from Nebraska--Homesteading the Plains: Toward a New History--is making quite a splash. Or, to get my metaphor…

Getting around our prairie country, I often encounter people who are justifiably proud of their lineage as descendants of homesteaders. They share in our…

It seems like yesterday, but likely it was close to two decades ago when I entertained the grandkids with our own version of the Lutheran carol, “Away in…

My friends in the West River keep working toward the establishment of a Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library, a great thing for this part of the…

One of the joys of my job is that I get to call fabulous experiences “work.” The most popular course I teach is the history of Australia and New Zealand,…