The McCormick-Deering Dump Rake
One of my best summer memories was riding on the dump rake! I don't remember driving the tractor for it. I think one of my brothers...
KRISTIE
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The Save All Coffee Can
My Mom gave me an old coffee can that I treasure. It's called the Save All Coffee can. I don't know the years they were made, but it's...
Grandma's Outhouse
This outhouse belonged to both Grandpa and Grandma (Arthur and Annie LaBrant), but I only thought of it as hers. If she needed to use it,...
Native American Pow Wow
In June I attended a Pow Wow in Parshall, North Dakota with our daughter Jana and our granddaughter Anwen. Although I was raised in the...
Fanning Mills
Fanning mills are used to clean the chaff and weed seeds from grain. Farmers cleaned the grain they would use for seed the following year...
Sunset over the Coulees
North Dakota sunsets have always fascinated me. Never repeating themselves, each one brings a new heavenly show.The aching beauty as the...
Buffalo Bird Woman's Garden
At the Earth Lodge Village near New Town, North Dakota, we found two local women working in the garden. One said it was designed after...
Earth Lodge Village
I was excited this week to visit the earth lodge village west of New Town, North Dakota. These are replicas of earth lodges--"awahte"--...
Wild Turkeys on the Prairie
In the 1990's, wild turkeys were released in North Dakota. My brother Carl said he remembers being quite surprised the first time he...
Dugout Homes
On the northwestern North Dakota prairie, with few if any trees on a homestead, enterprising homesteaders sometimes dug their dwelling...