Prairie

Life on the prairie can be adventurous and harrowing. Two newspaper anecdotes about a Raleigh, North Dakota rancher might seem straight out of the 1880s rather than the 1960s, except for the helicopter.

On this date in 1915, several prairie fires whipped North Dakota. A number of these fires were reported to have started from burning haystacks, and spread…

Picture this. It is early October, 1803. You are in what we now know as northeast North Dakota, near where the Park River flows into the Red River. You…

The words you hear are composed in an exceedingly literary environment. An entire floor of our split-level house is devoted to office and library, as I am…

Early pioneers found the vast Great Plains a daunting sight. Accustomed to the forests and the cultivated lands of the east, the prairie stretched before…