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Publications

Don Larew
Fargo
5 issues of the FMCT Prompter 1948-1966.

James Kaplan
Fargo
Sargent County Teller, Centennial Edition 1883-1983

Michael Miller
Fargo
"Salute to Strasburg", West Fargo Pioneer, Nov. 8, 1970

Michael Miller
Fargo
"Harvey at One Hundred", The Harvey Press, June 29, 2006

Dan Ayrd
Kindred
Photographic postcard of Lawton, N.D.

Lois Sullivan
Fargo
World War I letters to Gertie Olson

Lois Sullivan
Fargo
Soroptimist International of Fargo records

Evelyn Clemens
Fargo
Hustler's Square Dance Club (Minot, N.D.) records

Maria Everson Toomey
Enderlin
Sheyenne National Grasslands research files

David K. Martin
Fargo
F-M All America City records

Richard Kloubec
Fargo
A. J. O'Shea papers

Michael J. Olsen
Fargo
Fargo/Moorhead 125th Anniversary Committee records

Jan Ulferts Stewart
Fargo
Project Tomorrow records

Warren Walkinshaw
Argusville
Oral history on crop spraying in North Dakota

Sam Rudolf
Fargo
Ernestine Rudolf scrapbooks

Raymond Paulson
Fargo
Optimist Club of Red River Valley, Fargo records

Pennington County Historical Society
Thief River Falls, Minn
Fargo gasification plant photograph

Ronald Olin
Fargo
Catherine Buttery scrapbooks

Twila Gulson Halvorson
Minnesota
Night at Fargo, N.D. postcard album

Fargo Lions Club
Fargo
Additions to their records

Melva Moline
Oregon
Oral history and reminiscence

Rachel Clarens
Fargo
Term paper on divorce in Fargo in 1890s

Clerk of District Court, Cass County, N.D.
Fargo
Probate and Guardianship files, 1880-1945

Roye L. Lowry
Virginia
H. R. Hartman letterpress book

Tom Fricke
Michigan
Writings by Mr. Fricke

Herbert Hoover Library
Iowa
D. H. McArthur papers

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
Towner County History 1983-1989.
Pioneer Lutherans of Bisbee, Towner County, North Dakota, by Mabel Jacques Hadler.

Abraham Iwen
Arthur
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.

John Manesis
Palm Desert, Calif.
With All My Breth, Selected Poems, by John Manesis

Tom Bell
Fargo
A Guide to Mount Calvary Cemetery, Sargent Township, Sargent County, N.D. vol. 1 & 2, by Tom Bell

Larry O. Aasen
Westport, CT
North Dakota 100 Years Ago, by Larry O. Aasen

Mary May Miller Feiste
Minnewaukan
God's Colonizing Spirit, by Rev. Mathias Lanz

North Dakota Center for Distance Education & Neil Howe
Fargo
North Dakota Legendary. A study of North Dakota's Geography, History, Government and Issues, by Neil Howe & Theodore B. Jelliff
Early Settlement of North Dakota, by Gwyn Herman & Laverne Johnson
Frontier Era, by Gwyn Herman & Laverne Johnson
Citizenship, by Gwyn Herman & Laverne Johnson

Elaine Linke
Fargo
Linke Family History, 1800-2007, by Elaine Linek

Dr. Ronald Olin
Fargo
ElZagal 100th Anniversary Directory, 1889-1989

Kristina Gray
Crookston
S. A. Olsness, Feb. 7, 1866 - May 16, 1954, Memoirs of a Bi-Lingual Agent, by Kristina Gray

Rev. Leo F. Stelten
Cardinal Muench Seminary

Fargo
The Seed and the Harvest, by Sister Borgia Sondag

Michael Miller
Fargo
White Cloud: The Mystery of the Albino Buffalo

Lynden Benshoff
Bellevue, WA
Once Upon a Time


Madelyn Camrud
Grand Forks, ND
A Greener Green, a Bluer Blue
The Light We Go After
Thompson Revisited

Dovre Lutheran Chruch
Osnabrock, ND
Milton Luthern Church & Dovre Lutheran Church Directory, 2003
Dovre Lutheran Church 75th, 100th and 125th Anniversary booklets

George A. Freeman
Grand Forks, ND
Pembina County Pioneer Daughter Biographies.

Paul West
ND
"Steffes Auctioneers, 1990 Auction Price Guide, For Farm Equipment Sold in 1989.
Quaternary Geology of the Southern Lake Agassiz Basin.
50 Years of North Dakota Farm Bureau, Through the Decades ... Planting Seeds of Success, 1942-1992.
The North American Coal Corporation, Western Division and Subsidiary Companies.
Our Purpose is to Serve, The First Century of the North Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station,
by David B. Danbom.
The Story of the Prairies, by Daniel E. Willard.
Farm & Home Plat & Directory, Richland County, North Dakota 2007.
Southeast Water Users District Ransom/Sargent Water Users District and Dickey Rural Water Users District, Consolidation Packet.
Soils of Richland County, North Dakota.
North Dakota, The Northern Prairie State,
by Bernt Lloyd West.

Jody Tesch Sorenson
Everson, WA
"Queen" of the Desert: The Real Story of Mary Devitt Laird, by Jody Tesch Sorenson

Rodeny C. Gillund
Crosby, ND
Abstracts & Index of Obituaries: The Journal, Divide County, Crosby, ND, 2 vols. covering 1995-2004

Jacki Marler
Fargo
People's History of the Hallinglag of America, 1907-2007

Deane Dierksen
Falls Church, VA
Moulton Family in Cando, North Dakota, 1920-1930

JoAnne Barke
Fargo
Growing Up on Cole Creek ... Or Wis it Just a Coulee?

William F. Willoughby II
Chicago, IL
The Zychlinski Family, Their Polish Ancestors and American Descendants

Deane Dierksen
Falls Church, VA
Moulton Family in Cando, North Dakota, 1920-1930

St. Michael's Parish
Linton
75th Anniversary, St. Michael's Parish, Rural Linton, North Dakota, 1915-1990

D. W. Groethe
Bainville, MT
Western Poetry, West River Waltz, by D. W. Groethe, 2006
A Charlie Creek Christmas & Other Wintery Tails of the West, by D. W. Groethe, 2001

New Life Center
Fargo
Ministering to the Needs Of the Least ... The Last ... And the Lost, A Brief History of the Glad Tidings Mission, Fargo Union Mission and the New Life Center, by Hiram M. Drache, 2007

Little Flower Church
Rugby
Little Flower Church, Rugby, North Dakota, 75 Years of Progress and Growth, 1910-1985

Sacred Heart Catholic Church
Aneta
Sacred Heart, Aneta Centennial Celebration, Sunday September 17, 2006

First Baptist Church
Bismarck
125th Anniversary History, First Baptist Church, Bismarck, N.D. 1881-2006

Tom Bell
Lisbon, ND
A guide to Brampton Cemetery, Brampton Township, Sargent County, ND, 2006
A Guide to Harlem Cemetery, Harlem Township, Sargent County, ND,
2006
A Guide to Nicholson Cemetery, Sargent County, ND,
2006
A Guide to Scandinavian Cemetery, Verner Township, Sargent County, ND,
2006

Jacob R. Hehn
Ft. Collins, CO
The Hehn Family: From the Moselle to the Danube Plain to the Great Plains

Joe Bellefeuille
Moorhead, MN
A Brief Introduction to the Known Early History of Sabbatarian Groups in the Fargo-Moorhead Region

Eric C. Johnson
Houston, TX
From Husmann to Farmer: Norwegian Pioneers in Dakota Territory, by Eric Johnson, 2006

Paul West
Wahpeton
Farm & Home Plat & Directory, Richland Co., ND, 1994, 2004, 2005, 2006
County Wide Directory, Richland County, North Dakota & Wilkin County, Minnesota,
2004
Pictoral Atlas Richland County, North Dakota 1982
Wahpeton Comprehensive Plan, 1980

Theo Schaad
Seattle, WA
A Lamphere Anthology, by Theo Schaad 2006

Larry Bertrand
Carlsbad, CA
The Land Called, The Genealogy of Five Agrarian Families, Third Edition 2006

Henry Mott
Rapid City, SD
Alpha Mu Annual, 1915
In The World War, 1917-1918-1919, Cass County, No. Dakota

Jo Ann Winistorfer
Hazen, ND
History of the Norwegian Settlements: A translated and expanded version of the 1908 DeNorske Settlementers Historie and the 1930 Den Siste Folkevandring Sagastubber fra Nybyggerlivet in Amerika, by Hjalmar Rued Holand