North Dakota: A Guide to the Northern Prairie State

by Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration for the State of North Dakota

LITERATURE

Beach, Rex. The Spoilers. New York and London, A. M. Burt and Company, 1930. 315 p. il. A popular novel of Alexander McKenzie, North Dakota politician, and the Klondike Gold Rush.

Beede, Aaron McGaffey. Heart in the Lodge. Bismarck, Tribune Publishing Company, 1915. o. p. 61 p. A three-act play based on Whitestone Battle which took place near Ellendale, North Dakota.

Beede, Aaron McGaffey. Sitting Bull-Custer. Bismarck, Tribune Publishing Company, 1913, o. p. 50 p. il. B. A picture of the Custer massacre in dramatized form written from the Indian point of view.

Bliss, Paul Southworth. Cirrus from the West. Bismarck, The Cirrus Company, 51 p. il. Poems inspired by scenes in North Dakota.

Bliss, Paul Southworth. Spin Dance. Chicago, Lakeside Press, 1934. 98 p. il. Nature poems of North Dakota.

Bliss, Paul Southworth. The Rye Is The Sea. Bismarck, The Cirrus Company, 1936. il. A collection of nature poems about North Dakota and an account of hunting and fishing experiences of the author.

Bojer, John. Emigrants. New York, Century, 1925. o. p. 134 p. A vivid story of pioneer Dakota life translated from the Norse.

Borner, Florence. Modern Poems for Modern People. Bismarck, Tribune Publishing Company, 1919. o. p. 158 p. A collection of poems by a North Dakota poetess.

Brady, Cyrus Townsend. Britton of the Seventh. Chicago, A. C. McClurg Company, 1914. o. p. 319 p. il. A romance of the Northwest dealing especially with Gen. George A. Custer.

Clark, Badger. Sun and Saddle Leather. Boston, Gorham, n. d. 56 p. il. Poems by a South Dakota poet who writes spiritedly of cowboy and frontier days.

Collins, Hubert Edwin. Warpath and Cattle Trail. New York, W. Morrow and Company, 1928. 296 p. il. A story of ranch life, with preface by Hamlin Garland.

Cowdrey, Mary Boynton. The Checkered Years. Caldwell, Idaho, Caxton Printers, Ltd., 1937. 265 p. il. The diary of the author's grandmother, presenting an interesting account of life in eastern North Dakota during bonanza farm days.

Crawford, Lewis F. Badlands and Bronco Trails. Bismarck, Capital Book Company, 1926. o. p. 114 p. il. The adventures of Ben Arnold Conner, an Indian fighter, gold miner, cowboy, hunter, and Army scout who came up the Missouri with his regiment after the Civil War, told in an entertaining manner.

Dye, Eva. The Conquest. Chicago, A. C. McClurg Company, 1902. o. p. 443 p. Historical novel of Lewis and Clark expedition.

Foley, James W. Boys and Girls. New York, E. P. Dutton and Company, 1913. o. p. 239 p. il. Verses of a North Dakota poet, reprinted from periodicals.

Foley, James W. Friendly Rhymes. New York, E. P. Dutton and Company, 1918. o. p. A book of light verses.

Foley, James W. Prairie Breezes. Boston, R. B. Badger, 1905. o. p. 103 p. A book of verses which appeared originally in the Bismarck Tribune, New York Times, and Century Magazine, mostly about Dakota.

Foley, James W. Tales of the Trail. New York, E. P. Dutton and Company, 1914. o. p. 170 p. il. Sketches of the West done in verse.

Foley, James W. The Verses of J. W. Foley. Bismarck, R. D. Hoskins, 1914. o. p. 239 p. 3 v. A collection of poems by the North Dakota poet.

Gannon, Clell G. Songs of the Bunch Grass Acres. Boston, Badger, 1924. o. p. 96 p. il. Thirty-eight poems of prairie life.

Garland, Hamlin. The Moccasin Ranch. New York and London, Harpers, 1909. o. p. 136 p. il. A historical novel of North Dakota.

Garland, Hamlin. Prairie Song and Western Story. Boston, New York, Allyn and Bacon, 1928. 268 p. il. Shows the march of settlement in the Middlewest.

Gates, Eleanor. The Plow Woman. New York, Grosset and Dunlap, 1906. o. p. 364 p. Novel of pioneering days in southwest North Dakota.

Gordon, Hanford L. Indian Legends. Salem, Massachusetts, The Salem Press Company, 1910. o. p. 405 p. Poems of the Dakota Indians.

Hanson, Joseph M. Frontier Ballads. Chicago, A. C. McClurg Company, 1910. o. p. 92 p. il. Western ballads of Army, prairie, and river life.

Hough, Emerson. Story of the Cowboy. New York, Grosset and Dunlap, 1897. o. p. 349 p. il. A vivid description of ranch life in western Dakota.

Hueston, Ethel. Star of the West. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1935. 372 p. Historical novel in which is retold the story of the Lewis and Clark expedition.

Hughes, Mrs. Edith Wakeman. Motoring in White. New York, Knickerbocker Press, 1917. o. p. 97 p. il. A story of a trip from Dakota to Cape Cod.

Johnson, Clifton. Highways and Byways of the Rocky Mountains. New York, London, Macmillan, 1910. o. p. 279 p. il. A travelogue, one chapter of which deals with "A Dakota Paradise."

Koch, Frederick H. A Pageant of the Northwest. Grand Forks, University of North Dakota, 1914 o. p. A communal drama depicting the history of North Dakota, written by students for presentation at the opening of the Bankside Theater.

Laut, Agnes C. The Story of the Trapper. New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1902. o. p. 284 p. il. Narrative of the Northwest States and Canada.

Lillibridge, Will. Where the Trail Divides. New York, Burt, 1907.

Mackin, Marie. The Sylvan Portal. Bismarck, Bismarck Book Company, 1925. 247 p. il. A novel of life in North Dakota.

Meigs, Cornelia L. Railroad West. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1937. 326 p. il. The building of the Northern Pacific from Minnesota to the Yellowstone forms the background of this romance.

Modern Masters of Etching No. 24. Levon West. New York, William Edwin Rudge, 1930. 22 p. il. Biography and etchings of the third American artist to be included in this series. Levon West spent much of his boyhood in North Dakota.

Neal, Bigelow. The Last of the Thundering Herd. New York, Sears Publishing Company, Inc., 1933. 287 p. il. A narrative of the life of a bison near the close of the era when those animals roamed the Plains States.

Neihart, John G. Song of Hugh Glass. Chicago, Macmillan, 1915. o. p. 126 p. A narrative poem based on an episode taken from the era of the American fur trade.

Neihart, John G. Song of Indian Wars. Chicago, Macmillan, 1925. 231 p. il. Narrative poems of early days in the Northwest.

Neihart, John G. The River and I. New York and London, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1910. o. p. 325 p. il. A beautifully illustrated book, very easy to read, telling of the author's trip on the Missouri and Yellowstone Rivers.

Palliser, John. The Solitary Hunter; or Sporting Adventures on the Prairies. London, Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1859. o. p. 234 p. il. Author's hunting experiences on the western plains, told in the profuse style of the day.

Palmer, Bertha Rachel. Beauty Spots of North Dakota. Boston, Richard G. Badger, 1928. o. p. 266 p. il. History and description of interesting points in the State.

Putnam, Grace Brown and Ackermann, Anna. North Dakota Singing. New York, Paebar Company, 1936. 252 p. An anthology of poems by North Dakota authors compiled by two residents of the State.

Rickaby, Franz. Ballads and Songs of the Shantyboy. Boston, Harvard University Press, 1926. o. p. 244 p. il. Lumbermen's songs, many learned by the editor from North Dakota men who had worked in the north woods. Includes music.

Rollins, Philip A. The Cowboy. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926. o. p. 363 p. il. The part played by the cowboy in the development of the West.

Rolvaag, O. E. Giants in the Earth. New York, Harpers, 1924. 465 p. A story of Norse immigrants to Dakota based on true incidents.

Rolvaag, O. E. Peder Victorious. New York, Harpers, 1921. 350 p. A sequel to Giants in the Earth, this novel tells the story of the second generation in the Norwegian colony.

Roosevelt, Theodore. Hunting Adventures in the West. New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1927. o. p. 372 p. Contains descriptions of hunting expeditions at his Badlands ranch.

Roosevelt, Theodore. Hunting in Many Lands. New York, Forest and Stream Publishing Company, 1895. o. p. 447 p. il. The book of the Boone and Crockett Club, edited by Roosevelt and George Bird Grinnell, in which Roosevelt includes a Chapter entitled "Hunting in the Cattle Country."

Roosevelt, Theodore. Hunting Trips of a Ranchman. New York and London, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1885. o. p. 318 p. il. Roosevelt's own story of his life in North Dakota.

Roosevelt, Theodore. The Wilderness Hunter. New York and London, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1922. o. p. 296 p. 2 v. Sketches of sport on the northern cattle plains.

Rowbotham, Frances Jameson. A Trip to Prairie-Land. London, S. Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1885. o. p. 243 p. An interesting story of social life and customs of pioneer Dakota.

Stefansson, Vilhjalmur. My Life with the Eskimo. New York, Macmillan, 1913. o. p. 539 p. il. A fascinating autobiography of the North Dakota explorer's experiences during the expedition in which he discovered the white Eskimo colony.

Tooker, Richard. The Day of the Brown Horde. New York, Payson and Clarke, Ltd., 1929. 309 p. A story of prehistoric days.

Wilkins, Sir Hubert. Flying the Arctic. New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1928. 336 p. il. Describes the expedition from Fairbanks to Point Barrow, Spitzbergen, claimed by Stefansson and Amundson to be the greatest flight in history. Carl Ben Eielson, North Dakota aviator, was pilot for the flight.

Winsted, Huldah Lucille. North Dakota, Land of the Sky and other poems. Minot, North Dakota, 1927. A collection of North Dakota verses.