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Poetry by Jamie Parsley with 60+ black & white photos. Paperback. 172pp In the early evening of Thursday, June 20, 1957, a tornado struck the city of Fargo, North Dakota. When it was done, ten people lay dead (three more would later die from their injuries), a city was devastated and countless lives would never be the same again. Among the dead were two relatives of Jamie Parsley, a poet and an Episcopal priest, who was born almost thirteen years after the storm. In this evocative and moving elegy of the storm and its victims, Parsley, an Associate Poet Laureate of North Dakota, weaves a heartbreaking story of loss, poetry, pain, faith and, ultimately, renewal, and gives voice to those victims who, before now, were unable to speak for themselves. Fargo, 1957 is the story of the resilience and fortitude of the people who survived the storm, and those who did not.

by Howard A. Dahl & Patrick J. McCloskey

They built. They failed. They risked everything. And they kept going.

The story begins in nineteenth century Norway, where violence and fraud propel a family toward a better life in America. It reaches the North Dakota prairie, where E.G. Melroe's first invention arrives on the eve of an agricultural depression. What follows is no smooth march to success. Companies hang by a thread. Credit tightens. Machines break. Family and faith are tested. At each turning point, the Melroe and Dahl families must decide whether to retreat--or bet again on an idea, their employees, and one another.

In The Never-Quitters, you'll find the previously "untold story of the Melroe Company, the birth of the Bobcat loader, the rise of Steiger Tractor, and the development of the Concord air seeder and Amity International."
                                                                 --Heidi Hietkamp, former U.S. Senator