The Institute for Regional Studies & University Archives staff wish to thank the individuals and organizations listed below for the donation of the many North Dakota related publications that have been received. Each donated publication helps the Institute provide valuable research material to our users. These publications, together with archival documents and photographs, are used on a daily basis by people preparing scholarly articles and books, audiovisual presentations, local and family histories, and student research projects.
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2009 Donations
Valley City State University, Allen Memorial Library
Valley City, N.D.
Valley City State University, Flood of 2009
Rod Gillund
Crosby, N.D.
Index, Burke County Atlas (published by Geo. A. Ogle, Chicago, 1914)
Darrin Rodgers
Springfield, MO
On Divine Assignment, by Marcus and Elva Mae Bakke
Treasured Memories, A Missionary Family’s trials and triumphs, by Yvonne L. Carlson
The Truth About the Trinity and Baptism in Jesus Name Only, by E. J. Lindquist
Caught in the Tide, by Harry F. Taplin
Curt Eriksmoen
Fargo, N.D.
Did You Know That…? , vol. 3, by Curt Eriksmoen
Dale E. Herman
Fargo, N.D.
Our Family Heritage, Lineage of George Beaver Herman, Sr. and Elsie Mae (Gerig) Herman, Edition II.
Dr. Ronald Olin
Fargo, N.D.
Buffalo Lutheran Congregation, Fifty-fifth Anniversary, June 21-23, 1935
St. Luke’s Hospitals School of Nursing, A Commemorative Album Celebrating St. Luke’s Hospitals 75th Anniversary 1908-1983
Grover Insights, written and produced by the 1980-1981 Oak Grove Freshmen Class
North Dakota’s State Capitol, by Kenneth W. Simons, 1934
Nome Alumni 25th Biennial, June 28, 1997
Nome Alumni 28th Biennial, June 28, 2003
Rodney Nelson
Fargo, N.D.
Mere Telling Poems, by Rodney Nelson
Glen & Ardell Hegstad
Orange City, Iowa
Growing up on the Mixed Grass Prairie: 1930 to 1940. Decade of Drought and Depression, by Glen D. & Ardell Hegstad
Rev. William Sherman
Grand Forks, N.D.
Wagons North, Minnesota to Oregon, by William C. Sherman & John Guerrero
Marilyn J. Bachman Collection
Clothes Lines Party Lines & Hem Lines
Sods, Logs, & Tar-paper
Courtin’, Cookin’ & Castor Oil
The Best of the Prairie
People and Places … a walking tour of the original plat prepared for the Dickinson Centennial celebration
The People and the Profession, Selected Memories of Veteran Extension Workers
Neighborhood Activities In Country Communities, by Alfred G. Arvold
Church of the Lutheran Brethren
Fergus Falls, Minn.
75th Anniversary Bethel Luthern Brethren Church, Grand Forks, North Dakota, 1904-1979
Lake Region Public Library
Devils Lake, N.D.
Devils Lake Celebrate 2008 125 years. Official Souvenir Program Booklet
St. Leo’s Catholic Church
Minot, N.D.
Sisters in Teaching the Minot Catholic Schools, 1926-2006
St. Leo’s Parish Newsletter (Special Edition) June 2008
St. Leo’s: The First 100 years (1886-1986)
Janet Syrup
Fargo
“The Friendly House” an account of the founding and growth of the Fargo Glass and Paint Company
Bobcat
West Fargo
The Bobcat Film Legacy, 50 years unleashed, October 2007
North Dakota Cattle Women
Cowbelles Cattlewomen, American National Cattlewomen 1977-1986
60 Years with the North Dakota Stockmen’s Association, 1988
American National CowBelles’ History, 25th Anniversary, 1955-1977
Tim Flakoll
Fargo
61st Legislative Session, 2009
Eric C. Johnson
March On The Dakota’s. The Sibley Expedition of 1863, by Susan Mary Kudelka
The Way It Was, The North Dakota Frontier Experience, Book Six: The Townspeople
Jay Cooke’s Gamble, The Northern Pacific Railroad, The Sioux, and the Panic of 1873, by M. John Lubetkin
The Checkered Years, A Bonanza farm Diary 1884-88, by Mary Dodge Woodward
Penny-an-Acre Empire in the West, by Edgar I. Stewart
The Red River Trails, 1820-1870, Oxcart Routes between St. Paul and the Selkirk Settlement, by Rhoda R. Gilman, Carolyn Gilman, and Deborah M. Stultz
Spring Prairie Hutterite Colony
Hawley, Minn.
Tolna, North Dakota, 2006
Norwegian Statehood Pioneer Project
Laporte, Minn.
Celebrating Our Norwegian-Minnesotan Heritage, 1858-2008
Hounddoglouie Books
Garrison, N.D.
Cooperatives are people, by Snorri Torfinnson
The Silence of God and Other Poems, by Donald S. Hoffman
Treasures From the Heart, by Esther Charlebois
A Glint of Sunlight, by John Morris Severn
Foster County, N.D.
Carrington, N.D.
A History of Foster County, North Dakota, 1983.
Arlene Carpenter
Oriska, N.D.
Zion Lutheran Church, Oriska, North Dakota, 1891-1981.
Jeanette Kenner (Lake Region State College)
Devils Lake, N.D.
Shorelines magazine, vols. 1-4, 9-12, 14-16 (1993-2008)
Church of the Lutheran Brethren
Fergus Falls, Minn.
The Church of the Lutheran Brethren of America, Golden Anniversary, 1900-1950.
Allen J. Petersen
Fargo
Jerry Colby, Emotional Weather, 2008
Fargo Kiwanis & Fargo-Moorhead Area Musicians Welcome You to a World Filled With Beautiful Music, A Gift for the Entire Family, 2004
History of the Norwegian Baptists in America, by P. Stiansen, 1939
Facts Regarding the Wheat Crop of 1883 in Northwestern Minnesota, the Red River Valley and Northeastern Dakota, 1883?
MeritCare Health System
Fargo
Lighting the Way, MeritCare Centennial 1908-2008
Rodney Stroh
Bismarck, N.D.
Native Woodlands of the Sheyenne National Grassland, North Dakota, 2002, by Rodney Kenneth Stroh
Woodland Classification: North Dakota Sheyenne Grasslands, 2002, by Rodney Kenneth Stroh
Dorothy Fenske
Carrington, ND
People of Faith … Sharing God’s Grace, Trinity Lutheran Church, Celebrating 75 Years. August 9-10, 2008, Carrington, North Dakota
Molly P. Rozum
Crete, NE
One Step Over the Line, Toward A History of Women in the North American Wests
Carol Oakland
Bisbee, ND
Bisbee-Egeland All School Reunion 2008
Jim Norris
Fargo, ND
North For The Harvest, Mexican Workers, Growers, and the Sugar Beet Industry, by Jim Norris, 2009
Doris Liffrig
Bismarck, ND
I’m Strong … I Can Make It! From the Fjords of Norway to the Fields of North Dakota, by Doris Hermundstad Liffrig, 2008
2008 Donations
Margaret Brownell Lorenzen
Dryden, NY
A Life to Remember. The Life of Robert Theodore Lorenzen, by Margaret Brownell Lorenzen, 2007
Hounddoglouie Books
Garrison, ND
Government of North Dakota, by James E. Boyle, 1922
Wayne & Marian Tesmer
Fargo
The Frederick Family Memories
Childhood Reflections: Growing Up in Rural North Dakota, 1931-1951
Jennings “JB’ Klug
Fargo
Preservation of 20th Century Family History & Memoirs, by Jennings Klug
Fr. William Sherman
Hillsboro, N.D.
L’Heritage Tranquille: The Quiet Heritage
Family of Eliza R. McCann who married Lytle Griffing
Jim Halvorson
Tahoe City, CA
An Overflight Celebrating the 200th Anniversary of the Lewis and Clark “Corps of Discovery” 1804-1806 Exploration of the Northwest for a Waterway to the Pacific 18-25 July 2005
Germans from Russia Heritage Collection
Fargo
New Leipzig’s 50th Anniversary, July 6-7, 1960, (reprint)
W. Dale & Lola Ruff
Mounds View, MN
Ruff Family History, by Dale Ruff
James Skurdall
Decorah, IA
An Anderson Family History, by James Skurdall
Stan & Marilyn Kruger
Sheyenne, N.D.
Early Sheyenne “People of the Prairies”, Pictures of the Sheyenne, ND area mainly taken from the late 1890’s to the 1950’s
Allen Osmundson
Binford, N.D.
Ethnicity Challenged, The Upper Midwest Norwegian-American Experience in World War I, by Carl H. Chrislock
Norwegian Migration to America, The American Transition, by Theodore C. Blegen
Stardust to Prairie Dust, by Irving Wallace
Land of the Free, Bjornstjerne Bjornson’s America Letters, 1880-1881, by Eva Lund & Einar Haugen
A Folk Epic, The Bygdelag in America, by Odd Sverre Lovoll
The Promise Fulfilled, A Portrait of Norwegian Americans Today, by Odd S. Lovoll
Reader’s Digest, Wide World Atlas
Neil Howe
Fargo
North Dakota History, Readings about the Northern Plains State
Kathy Thomas
Fargo
When God Made the Dakotas, by Tim Kessler & Paul Morin
Milnor History Book Committee
Milnor, N.D.
Milnor, North Dakota 1883-2008
Leta Holsinger
West Fargo, N.D.
Devils Lake Journal – 125th Birthday of Devils Lake, June 30, 2008
Darrin J. Rodgers, Flower Pentecostal Heritage Center
Springfield, MO
Assembly of God Church, Kulm, North Dakota. Celebrating 50 Years of Pentecost in the Kulm Area, 1924-1974.
Kulm Assembly of God 75th Anniversary, 1924-1999
World Events In the Light of Bible Prophecy, A Sermon by Rev. N. C. Beskin, Published by Rev. O. E. McCraken
L. Marilyn Cameron Stinson
St. Joseph, MN
Descendants of Roderick and Christiana Cameron, by Lois Marilyn Cameron Stinson
Carolyn Haase Mayes
Rancho Mirage, CA
Carl Michael Wilhelm Haase Family, by Carolyn Haase Mayes
Rachel Pribbeno
Aurora, CO
The Pribbeno-Pribbenow Families in the United States, 1803-1991, by Glenn Emerson Pribbeno
Adeline Nelson estate
Fargo
Accordion Man, by Myron Floren and Randee Floren
Marvis Weiser
Fargo
Soil Interpretations for Strip Mined Land in Mercer County, North Dakota, 1974
Soil Survey of Oliver County, North Dakota, USDA Soil Conservation Service
Soil Survey of Mercer County, North Dakota, USDA Soil Conservation Service
Florence Oakland
Bisbee, N.D.
Towner County History 1983-1989.
Pioneer Lutherans of Bisbee, Towner County, North Dakota, by Mabel Jacques Hadler.
Abraham Iwen
Arthur, N.D.
One Hunderd Twenty-Five Years with Arthur, 1882-2007.
Dedication Services … St. John’s Lutheran Church, Arthur, N.D., June 11, 1950.
golden Jubilee, St. John’s Lutheran Church, Arthur, N.D. 1888-1938.
Iver A. Lund
Amherst, NH
Caring for Minnie, a trus story of love, faith, & caregiving, by Iver A. Lund and Margaret Waterman.