Bücher von Jon Lauck

Jon K. Lauck grew up in South Dakota and earned his Ph.D. in history from the University of Iowa and his law degree from the University of Minnesota. He is interested in the history, culture, economics, and politics of the American Midwest and in American and European history more generally.

John E. Miller is a historian from Brookings, South Dakota. He received his B.A. degree in history from the University of Missouri and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in history from the University of Wisconsin. He taught twentieth-century American history courses and other historical subjects at the University of Tulsa and at South Dakota State University for thirty years before becoming a full-time writer in 2003.

Paula M. Nelson is professor emeritus in the Department of History at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville, where she taught for twenty-six years. Her research interests include agricultural settlement in the Great Plains and upper Midwest, rural life and culture, rural women's history, and small towns. Nelson is the author of After The West Was Won, and The Prairie Winnows Out Its Own, books about west river South Dakota homesteading and agriculture, and is the editor of Sunshine Always, a book of courtship letters from Dakota Territorial days. She has written numerous articles, essays and book reviews.