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Thomas D. Isern

Professor of History & University Distinguished Professor, North Dakota State University

Author & presenter of Plains Folk on Prairie Public radio

Married to historian & editor Suzzanne Kelley

Home in North Dakota, farm in Kansas

Bethany Swede

OSU Cowboy

NDSU Bison

*The Dakota War in Dakota Territory

*German-Russian Country

Join Prof. Isern for the Willow Creek Folk School, Fridays at 8pm Central, on the Facebook timeline of Plains Folk.

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“Mountains are all right, I guess, because you can get on top of them and get a good view of the plains.”
Thomas D. Isern
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