Chapter II: Preface: vii

By Ethel Schlasinger, State Director, Federal Writers' Project

ILLUSTRATIONS AND MAPS xiii

GENERAL INFORMATION xv

ANNUAL EVENTS xix

I. SURVEY OF THE STATE

CONTEMPORARY NORTH DAKOTA 3

NORTH DAKOTA: ITS NATURAL SETTING 5

INDIANS AND THEIR PREDECESSORS 16

HISTORY 35

AGRICULTURE AND FARM LIFE 59

INDUSTRY AND LABOR 72

RACIAL GROUPS AND FOLKWAYS 78

SCHOOLS, CHURCHES, AND SOCIAL CURRENTS 88

TRANSPORTATION 95

PRESS AND RADIO 99

ARCHITECTURE 102

RECREATION 106