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April 5, 2005

Northern Plains Autograph Party April 23

SIOUX FALLS – The public is invited to the Northern Plains Autograph Party from 11:15 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. Saturday, April 23, at the Fantle Building for the Center for Western Studies on the campus of Augustana College.

Authors of new and recent books about the Northern Plains will be available to sign copies of their books, which may be purchased at the registration desk. Authors will be presenting during the Dakota Conference, April 22-23, also at Augustana.

Dr. Arthur Huseboe, executive director of the Center for Western Studies, will give the welcome and introductions. A reception is sponsored by the Deadwood Historic Preservation Commission.

Participating authors:
Jan Cerney - Badlands National Park (Arcadia), Mitchell’s Corn Palace (Arcadia).
John A. Day – Oscar Howe, Artist, Paintings and Commentaries by Oscar Howe (University of South Dakota).
Del Dvoracek – The Dime Novel Man and Other Frontier Tales (Pocol).
David Allan Evans – The Bull Rider’s Advice (Center for Western Studies).
Renee Sansom Flood – Lost Bird of Wounded Knee (Scriber).
Sean J. Flynn – An Engineer’s War: The Legacy of PFC Alfred Hutchinson (Gregory Times Advocate).
Rose Estep Fosha – Ethnic Oasis: The Chinese in the Black Hills (South Dakota State Historical Society Press).
Herbert T. Hoover – Sioux County: A History of Indian-white Relations (Center for Western Studies).
Paul Horsted – Custer State Park: From the Mountains to the Plains (Golden Valley).
Tom Kilian – Tales of Old Dakota (Pine Hill Press).
David Kvernes, editor – The Lewis and Clark Expedition: Then and Now (Center for Western Studies).
David Laskin – The Children’s Blizzard (HarperCollins).
Ronald Laycock – The Lewis and Clark Expedition: Then and Now (Center for Western Studies).
George McGovern – The Essential America: Our Founders and the Liberal Tradition (Simon and Schuster); The Third Freedom: Ending Hunger in Our Time (Simon and Schuster).
Elaine N. McIntosh – The Lewis and Clark Expedition: Food, Nutrition, and Health (Center for Western Studies).
M.J. McMillan – Poems for the Common Man (Pine Hill Press).
Lorraine Asper Minier – Wayward Winds of the ‘30s (Pine Hill Press).
Rex C. Myers – The Lewis and Clark Expedition: Then and Now (Center for Western Studies).
Keith Norman – Great Stories of the Great Plains II (McCleery & Sons); Great People of the Great Plains (McCleery & Sons).
Gary D. Olson – Sioux Falls, South Dakota: A Pictorial History (Donning).
Lynwood Oyos – The Family Farmers’ Advocate: South Dakota Farmers Union, 1914-2000 (Center for Western Studies).
Laurinda Porter: The Lewis and Clark Expedition: Then and Now (Center for Western Studies).
Peggy Sanders: The Civilian Conservation Corps in and Around the Black Hills (Arcadia); Wind Cave National Park –The First 100 Years (Arcadia).
James Calvin Schaap – Touches the Sky (Revell).
Jerry L. Simmons – The Lewis and Clark Expedition: Then and Now (Center for Western Studies).
Mark St. Pierre – Of Uncommon Birth: Dakota Sons in Vietnam (University of Oklahoma Press).
Kent Scribner – The Lewis and Clark Expedition: Then and Now (Center for Western Studies).
Robert C. Steensma – The Lewis and Clark Expedition: Then and Now (Center for Western Studies).
Linea Sundstrom – Storied Stone: Indian Rock Art of the Black Hills Country (University of Oklahoma Press).
Brad Tennant – The Lewis and Clark Expedition: Then and Now (Center for Western Studies).
Harry F. Thompson – The Lewis and Clark Expedition: Then and Now (Center for Western Studies).
David A. Wolff – Industrializing the Rockies: Growth, Competition, and Turmoil in the Coalfields of Colorado and Wyoming, 1868-1914 (University Press of Colorado).
Alan Woolworth – The Genesis and Construction of the Winona & St. Peter Railroad, 1858-1873 (Crossings Press); A Place Called Home: Writings on the Midwestern Small Town (Minnesota Historical Society).
Solveig Zempel – When the Wind is in the South, and Other Stories by O.E. Rolvaag (Center for Western Studies).