DAKOTA TERRITORIAL CENTENNIAL de Dakotas - 1961

National Conference of Christians & Jews, Incorporated (Minnesota & The Dakotas Region), 1991. Paperback. Very Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read, but remains in excellent condition. Pages are intact and are not marred by notes or highlighting, but may contain a neat previous owner name. The spine remains undamaged. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

EMI Special Products, 1996-01-01. audioCD. Very Good. 5x4x0. clean with no markings.stickers or stains, fast shipping with tracking number.

Badlands Natural History Association, 1987. Limited, numbered edition of 490 copies, this #391. 158p, illustrated endpapers, dj art, interior b/w illus. by Oscar Howe. Hardbound, gilt-lettered blue cloth, in near-fine condition, interior clean and unmarked, in very-good+ dj. Originally published in 1941 as a WPA - South Dakota Writers' Project publication.

[Minneapolis]: Thompson Yards, Inc, 1916. Broadside, 20.75 x 9.75 inches. Old folding creases, a few short, closed tears at margins; very good. Minneapolis-based company Thompson Yards tells farmers that diversification in agriculture is the road to wealth -- urging them to buy silos on credit on the grounds that they can't go wrong if they raise cattle while growing alfalfa and a variety of grain crops. In the 1880s and 1890s, the Dakotas had been widely promoted by land agents as ideal for growing wheat, and many had settled there convinced their fortunes would be made by the crop. But Dakota farmers had suffered greatly when their wheat crops were devastated by disease ("black rust") or excessive heat. While this broadside may read as an advertiser's hype (which it is), it was not entirely wrong - in the first decades of the twentieth centuries Dakota farmers had success growing oats, corn, barley, rye, flax, sugar beets, sunflowers, potatoes, and other crops. With demand high… Leer más

Milwaukee: Allied Printing, 1920. First edition. A plate showing the party after they returned. 1 vols. Small 8vo. Original tan self-wrappers. Light wear. First edition. A plate showing the party after they returned. 1 vols. Small 8vo. Gold-seekers. Following Custer's expedition into the Black Hills where he reported finding gold the government placed an order forbidding anyone to got into the hills until the proper treaties with the Indians were completed. In 1874, in defiance of these orders, John Gordon conducteda party of 27 men to search the Black Hills for gold. This is their story. Howes A93