North Dakota

Amidst the cheers, pride, tailgating and excitement of college athletics lurks for many Americans the discomforting sense that many colleges have abandoned their academic integrity and proper relationship between academics and athletics. Located on the rolling farmland of North Dakota sits Jamestown College, whose experience with athletics offers a stunningly different perspective of how athletics and academics can work together to promote the general well-being of the institution. "The Coach and the College" tells the story of how the amazing competitive success of teams coached by Rollie Greeno facilitated the recruitment to Jamestown College of hundreds of student-athletes who paid tuition and fees that, along with the crucial work of key administrators and dedicated employees and the financial generosity of a handful of alumni, kept the college open during the financially difficult 1980s and 1990s. To a significant extent, then, Jamestown College owes its ability to have created and to maintain a mutually beneficial relationship between athletics and the institution's academic mission.
by Robert D. Sawrey.
ISBN #978-0-911042-77-1.
Copyright 2013.
224 pages. Softcover.

Most recent of the "Prairie Document Series;" a photographic essay that demonstrates the power of the river and its influences on the lives of all living by its shores.

Edited by Wayne Gudmundson.

This publication documents nearly four decades of the North Dakota artist's work. Gudmundson, whose heritage is Icelandic, has been photographing the American prairie plains since the late 1970s with the aim of recording the marks of human intervention in this often hostile yet sublimely beautiful land.

By: Wayne Gudmundson.
ISBN # 978-0-911042-67-2
Copyright 2007
Hardcover
103 pages

A collection of poems originally published in Dacotah Territory Magazine
Edited by Mark Vinz and Grayce Ray

Only a few copies remain of this celebration of 1970s literary culture on the northern plains. The book begins with essays by Mark Vinz, Joseph Richardson, Robert Schuler, and Grayce Ray--the movers and shakers whose passion pushed them to edit, publish, and distribute poetry and prose. Illustrations and photographs by Bernel Bayliss, Leo Kim, James Ver Doorn, Carol Smith, Linda Hanson, and more--first seen in issues of Dacotah Territory--are interspersed throughout the collection. All of the poems in this collection are extracted from previous issues of Dacotah Territory Magazine. The poems are presented alphabetically by author, and the appendix lists the poems in the order they originally appeared, by issue. Poets include Robert Bly, Alvin Greenberg, Patricia Hampl, Joy Harjo, Margaret Hasse, Dale Jacobson, Deborah Keenan, Ted Kooser, Richard Lyons, Thomas McGrath, and many more.

Dakota Circle is a wry, sometimes humorous description of the people and things that make up the Great Plains. Includes the notorious "You Must be from N.D." list of regional virtues and idiosyncrasies.

By Tom Isern.
ISBN # 0-911042-53-9
Copyright 2000
203 pages.
Hardcover.

First published some four decades ago. This political history of the Dakotas at their infancy offers readers a powerful picture of the politicians who carved a government out of a frontier and turned it into not one, but two huge states.

By Howard Lamar
ISBN 0-911042-47-4
Copyright 1997
Hardcover
336 pages