08.28.2018 - By Prairie Public
The past couple of months I have spent a great deal of time book touring, promoting my new book, Pacing Dakota , with North Dakota State University Press. Most of the book is about life on the northern plains, but it is grounded in my own history in Kansas--specifically my own roots in Barton County. The prologue to the work gets personal about those roots, and so I decided to share it here. I think the sentiments expressed are common to the whole region of the Great Plains. (Sharing this