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Title: State Historical Society. North Dakota Writers' Project, History of Grazing Files
Dates: ca. 1935-1942
Record Series: 30560
Quantity: 2.5 feet
Abstract: Series consists of notes, correspondence, biographies and reminiscences of wheat farmers, and drafts of the hard wheat study.
Provenance: The North Dakota State Archives acquired these records series through the auspices of the Historical Data Project, Professional and Service Division, Work Projects Administration, and the State Historical Society of North Dakota, ca.1936-1940.
Copyright: Public records are not subject to copyright restrictions, although record series may contain copyrighted material. Consideration of such copyrights is the responsibility of the author and publisher.
Access: These records are available for public inspection under provision of the North Dakota Century Code, 55-02.1-08.
Citation: Researchers are requested to cite the record group, series name and number, and the State Historical Society of North Dakota in all footnote and bibliographic references.
HISTORICAL SKETCH
The North Dakota Writers’ Project began in 1935 and was sponsored by the Division of Women’s and Professional Projects, Works Progress Administration, and the State Historical Society of North Dakota. Many of the publications planned by the North Dakota Writers’ Project were never published. Three notable exceptions are:
North Dakota: A Guide to the Northern Prairie State, 1938
A History of Richland County and the City of Wahpeton, North Dakota, 1938 sponsored by the Wahpeton Park Committee
A History of Bismarck, 1938 sponsored by the Bismarck Association of Commerce
The grazing study covers all western and southwestern sections of the United States. In this study, the North Dakota Writers’ Project covered the story of ranching in western North Dakota from the days when Texas cowboys drove their herds of longhorns up to the rich pastures along the Little Missouri. In addition to the main story of the evolution of the range livestock business, there is the story of the early cattle barons, the coming of the nesters and homesteaders, the feuds between the ranchers and the farmers over the fencing of the rangeland, biographical sketches of the “cattle kings’, the larger ranchers, and of such colorful characters as Theodore Roosevelt, Pierre Wibaux, and the Parisian Marquis de Mores, who sought to revolutionize the meat-packing industry of the nations in the heart of the Badlands. Data is provided on ranch traditions and lore, on the rustlers and vigilantes in their wake, and the titles remittance men who ranched here in the early days.
The North Dakota Writers’ Project gathered information for other proposed publications, including a history of grazing, a book on the origin of North Dakota place names, a folklore study, and a book entitled “America Eats.” Survey work of the North Dakota Writers’ Project ended in 1942.
Box / Folder Inventory
Box 108:
1 Instructions
2 History of Grazing (Indexes)
3 History of Grazing (Indexes)
4 History of Grazing (Indexes)
5 History of Grazing (Outlines)
6 History of Grazing (Outlines)
7 Correspondence
8 History of Grazing, First Draft, (Original Section) I
9 History of Grazing, First Draft, (Original Section) II
10 History of Grazing, First Draft, (Original Section) III
11 History of Grazing, First Draft, (Original Section) IV
12 History of Grazing, First Draft, (Original Section) V
13 History of Grazing, First Draft, (Original Section) VI
14 History of Grazing, First Draft, (Original Section) VII
15 History of Grazing, First Draft, (Original Section) VIII
16 History of Grazing, Original Copies, Sections I to VIII
17 History of Grazing, Second Draft, Section I to III
18 History of Grazing, Second Draft, Section IV
19 History of Grazing, Second Draft, Section V
20 History of Grazing, Second Draft, Section VI
21 History of Grazing, Second Draft, Section VII
22 History of Grazing, Second Draft, Section VIII
23 History of Grazing, Final Manuscript, Section I
24 History of Grazing, Final Manuscript, Section II
25 History of Grazing, Final Manuscript, Section III
26 History of Grazing, Final Manuscript, Section IV
27 History of Grazing, Final Manuscript, Section V
28 History of Grazing, Final Manuscript, Section VI
29 History of Grazing, Final Manuscript, Section VII
30 History of Grazing, Final Manuscript, Section VIII
31 History of Grazing, South Dakota
32 Biographies of Ranchers
33 Biographies of Ranchers
34 Biographies of Ranchers
35 Biographies of Ranchers
36 Biographies of Ranchers
37 Biographies of Ranchers
38 Biographies of Ranchers
39 Biographies of Ranchers
Box 109:
Specialists on Range Livestock Problems
1 Sheep Industry
2 Grazing District Lands and Associated Properties
3 Cattle and Sheep Ranches
4 Grasses
5 Early Ranching
6 Report of the Conference of Animal Husbandry and Other
7 Cattle and Sheep Ranches
8 General Information
9 General Information
10 General Information
11 Benson County
12 Billings County
13 Bottineau County
14 Dunn County
15 Emmons County
16 Golden Valley County
17 McHenry County
18 McHenry County
19 McKenzie County
20 McLean County
21 Mountrail County
22 Mountrail County
23 Stark County
24 Stark County
25 Ward County
26 Williams County
27 General Information
28 Excerpts from "Roosevelt in the Badlands"
29 Livestock Regulations
30 Livestock Regulations
Box: 110:
1 Livestock Regulations
2 Livestock Regulations
3 Notes
4 Notes
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