Contents

NORTH DAKOTA ORAL HISTORY PROJECT ISSUE:

Author's Preface
 Larry J. Sprunk
  Director, North Dakota Oral History Project

Introduction
 Larry J. Sprunk
 Robert (Bob) Carlson
 Larry Remele

The Interviews

Jim Gayton - Selfridge
 -the Bismarck-Winona stagecoach line

Wilber J. Chapin - Hankinson
 -pioneer life in the 1800's; the business of a jeweler; some aspects of life in Hankinson

Alfred O. Brown - Hettinger
 -homesteading in Adams County; first look at Hetinger; in and out of banking; a man's word...; more about banking

Henry R. Martinson - Fargo
 -the North Dakota Socialist Party; the Nonpartisan League; Arthur C. Townley

Mabel Lorshbough - Fargo
 -the great Fargo fire of 1893; some aspects of daily life in the city

Matthew (Math) Dahl - Bismarck
 -breaking sod wiht a steam tractor; campaigning and organizing for the Nonpartisan League in Emmons County; Townley, Langer, Lemke and Burdick; running for office; the best governors; a political reputation

John Robinson - Garrison
 -Missouri River Steamboats; vigilantes; winter clothes; a career veterinarian's work; my state

Clarence Tweet - Reeder
 -a Sears and Roebuck sale; a Langer story

M.G. Flath - Stanley
 -a country doctor; automobiles; a doctor's wages

Winifred Erdman - Minot
 -coming to teach in McHnery County in 1904; schoolchildren; homesteading near Stady in 1907

Henry Timm - Wishek
 -the WPA in Wishek; roads and county politics; a blizzard dance

Judge Ronald N. Davies - Fargo
 -Arthur C. Townley; Lynn J. Frazier; William L. Langer on the campaign and in person

Alice Conitz - New Salem
 -a homesteading tragedy; cooking for the threshing crews

James Blunt - Bismarck
 -growing up in Bismarck; entertainments and fun; Alexander McKenzie; An opponent of the Nonpartisan League

Henry Gayton - Selfridge
 -the Indian boarding school at Fort Yates

Congressman Don Short - Medora
 -a depression story; growing up in Medora; wildlife and hunters; the Medora Grazing Association; Usher L. Burdick

S.W. Melzer - Wodworth
 -a country doctor; home remedies and moonshine; the Townley oil well at Robinson; bank failures in Woodworth in the early 1930's

Hilda Putney - Rhame
 -the cowboys of the Slope country; the decline of Marmarth

William (Bill) Bosanco - Mott
 -a section man on the Milwaukee Road; some tricks of the trade

Margaret Johnson - Cartwright
 -jobs for kids; frontier Christmases; making good on the farm; finding land to homestead

Judge William L. Gipp - Fort Yates
 -changes in the Indian way of life during the 20th Century

Charles Chapman - Hazen
 -growing up with Indians and solitude on a homestead near Portal; the desperado and the canary

Martha Correll - Casselton
 -the Dalrymples and their bonanza farm; high society and social life in Casselton

J.A. (Burt) Rock - Elgin
 -finding water; a couple of flax stories; horses; threshing; mining coal

Ole Abelseth - Hettinger
 -the sinking of the Titanic

Ray Zinsli - Beach
 -the decline of the blacksmith's business; mining coal at Medora and Sentinel Butte; how not to blast lignite

William L. (Bill) Smith - Steele
 -building railroad grades; equipment; feeding the crews

The Photographs

Prairie Pioneers: some North Dakota homesteaders
The Cattlemen: some early cowboys and ranchers
Turning the Sod and Harvesting the Grain
Building the Railroads
Keeping the Lifeline Open
Moving the People
Natural Resources
Towns and Cities, Prairie-Style
Places in the Past
Bringing the Mail
Uniting in Worship
Calamities
Shares in a Dream
Getting People Together
Schools, Colleges, and Providing an Education
Reign of the Horse
The Commercial Sector
As A Public Service
A Variety of Business

Features

Historic Buildings of North Dakota: State Capitol - Bismarck

Dakota Poets

Northern Plains Reviews

Author's Gallery

Editor's Choice: North Dakota State Flag