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The Way It Was Book Series
Everett C. Albers and D. Jerome Tweton, Editors
The Grass Roots Press, Fessenden, North Dakota, softcover
Central North Dakota Library Network
Here are the stories of earliest pioneers of North Dakota told
by those who experienced the decades of the 1870s, 1880s, and 1890s.
Recorded in the middle 1930s by interviewers working in a Works
Progress Administration (WPA) project, those who settled the land
tell "the way it was" for them when they came to the frontiers.
Gleaned from over 5,000 stories which are archivally stored at the
State Historical of North Dakota. Each book is illustrated with
photographs from North Dakota collections.
Books available:
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Book One: The Sod-Busters (1996, 98 pages)
The Sod-Busters collects seventeen of the personal histories
of those who came to that endless sea of grass that challenged
their strength and spirit as they broke the sod and farmed
the land.
$13.00 Softcover
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Book Two: Norwegian Homesteaders (2001, 90 pages)
Norwegian Homesteaders collects sixteen
of the personal histories of those who came to that endless
sea of grass that challenged their strength and spirit as
they broke the sod and farmed the land.
$13.00 Softcover
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Book Three: The Cowboy & Ranchers (1999, 91 pages)
The Cowboys & Ranchers provides memories
of the frontier experience, collects the personal histories
of those who came to Dakota when the buffalo still roamed,
brown bear walked among vast herds of cattle, and unfenced
ranches stretched over as much as 800 square miles.
$13.00 Softcover
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Book Four: Germans from Russia Settlers (1999, 93
pages) Germans from Russia
Settlers collects eighteen of the personal histories
of those who came to that endless sea of grass that challenged
their strength and spirit as they broke the sod and farmed
the land.
$13.00 Softcover
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Book Five: Native People (2002, 85 pages)
Native People collects nineteen of the personal
histories of those whose people had hunted and farmed in North
Dakota for hundreds of years.
$13.00 Softcover
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Book Six: The Townspeople (2004, 89 pages)
The Townspeople collection
sixteen of the personal histories of those who came and
lived in the first towns, most often created by the railroad
companies as a center of commerce for those who came to
break the sod and farm the land, that endless sea of grass
that challenged their strength and spirit.
$13.00 Softcover
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The Way It Was books feature full-color laminated
covers of 112-page, 6 by 9 inch volumes, each containing up to
16 narratives of the first settlers of North Dakota collected
in a 1930's Works Progress Administration (WPA) project. The six
volumes come in a boxed set! $72.00. Softcover
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Related Articles:
The Way It Was Series of Books
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Permission
to use any images from the GRHC website may be requested
by contacting Michael
M. Miller |
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