Biography
Dive in to the many intriguing books about North Dakotans
Allen, Maury
Roger Maris: A Man for All Seasons. Dutton, 1986.
Briggs, Colin
Cordially Yours, Ann Sothern. Bearmanor, 2006.
Connell, Evan S.
Son of the Morning Star: Custer and the Little Bighorn. 1984; rep., Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1997.
Eriksmoen, Curt
Did You Know That? 47 Fascinating Stories about People Who Have Lived In North Dakota. McCleery and Sons, 2006.
Geelan, Agnes
The North Dakota Maverick: The Political Life of William Langer. Kaye's Printing, 1975.
Goplen, Arnold O.
The Career of the Marquis de Mores in the Badlands of North Dakota. 1979; rep., State Historical Society of ND, 1994.
Hawkins, Reese, and Meredith Wallin
Remembering Louis L’Amour. McCleery and Sons, 2001.
Innis, Ben
Bloody Knife: Custer’s Favorite Scout, ed. by Richard E. Collin. 1973; rep. Smoky Water Press, 1994.
Jenkinson, Clay S.
The Character of Meriwether Lewis: Completely Metamorphosed in the American West. Marmath Press, 2000.
Lazenby, Roland
Mindgames: Phil Jackson’s Long Strange Journey. Bison Books, 2007.
Leckie, Shirley A.
Elizabeth Bacon Custer and the Making of a Myth. Univ. of Oklahoma, 1993.
Norman, Keith
Great People of the Great Plains: 25 Biographies of People Who Shaped the Dakotas. McCleery and Sons, 2004.
Rylance, Dan, and Chester Fritz
Ever Westward to the Far East: The Story of Chester Fritz. Univ. of ND, 1982.
Schultz, Margie
Ann Sothern: A Bio-Biliography. Greenwood Press, 1990.
Sherman, William C., and John Guerrero
Valerian Pᶏczek: Priest, Soldier, Quiet Hero. Univ. of Mary, 2004.
Smemo, Kenneth
Against the Tide: The Life and Times of Federal Judge Charles F. Amidon. Garland, 1986.
Smith, Ron, and Billy Crystal
61: The Story of Roger Maris, Mickey Mantle, and One Magical Summer. McGraw-Hill, 2001.
Sorley, Lewis
Honorable Warrior: General Harold K. Johnson and the Ethics of Command. Univ. Press of Kansas, 1999.
Stirrup, David
Louise Erdrich. Manchester Univ. Press, 2012.
Tharaldson, Ardell
Patronage: Histories and Biographies of North Dakota's Federal Judges. Northern Lights ND Press, 2002.
Tweton, D. Jerome
The Marquis de Mores: Dakota Capitalist, French Nationalist. ND Institute for Regional Studies, 1972.
Utley, Robert M.
Cavalier in Buckskin: George Armstrong Custer and the Western Military Frontier. Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 1988.
VanDevelder, Paul
Coyote Warrior: One Man,Three Tribes, and the Trial That Forged a Nation. Little, Brown, 2004.
Vestal, Stanley (William Stanley Campbell)
Sitting Bull, Champion of the Sioux. 1932; rep., Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 1989.
Welch, Matthew
Body of Clay, Soul of Fire: Richard Bresnahan and the Saint John's Pottery. Afton Historical Society Press, 2001.
Woiwode, Larry
Aristocrat of the West: The Story of Harold Schafer. ND Institute for Regional Studies, 2000.