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About the Author

Roger Welsch was a professor of English and anthropology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln until 1988, when he moved to Dannebrog, Nebraska, to write full time. He is the author of more than thirty books, including It's Not the End of the Earth, but You Can See It from Here and Touching the mostrar mais Fire: Buffalo Dancers, the Sky Bundle, and Other Tales, both available in Bison Books editions. mostrar menos

Obras por Roger L. Welsch

Love, Sex and Tractors (2000) 34 exemplares
Sod Walls (1991) 30 exemplares
Forty Acres and a Fool (2006) 23 exemplares
A Life with Dogs (2004) 20 exemplares
You Know You're a Nebraskan (1989) 13 exemplares
Uncle Smoke Stories (1994) 9 exemplares
Outhouses (2003) 7 exemplares
You Know You're a Husker... (1986) 3 exemplares
How Cold is It? (1996) 3 exemplares
Science Lite: Jaws 1 exemplar
The Summer it Rained (1978) 1 exemplar

Associated Works

This Old Farm: A Treasury of Family Farm Memories (1999) — Prefácio — 25 exemplares
On Behalf of the Wolf and the First Peoples (1995) — Prefácio — 22 exemplares

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Conhecimento Comum

Data de nascimento
1936-11-06
Data de falecimento
2022-09-30
Sexo
male
Nacionalidade
USA
Locais de residência
Nebraska, USA
Educação
University of Nebraska
Indiana University
University of Colorado
Ocupações
Folklorist
Prémios e menções honrosas
Henry Fonda Award
Mari Sandoz Award

Membros

Críticas

One of those "aw, shucks" columnists documents the restoration of an old Allis Chalmers tractor.

Entertaining enough, and a good characterization of what leads a guy to start accumulating old iron for repair and restoration, or just out of downright curiosity.

On the Internet (circa 1997):
What I mostly saw was people wasting way too much time and energy arguing about a $40 tool when they could have just bought the damned thing and gone to work in their shops.
I'm looking at you, Hobby-Machinist forums.… (mais)
 
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mkfs | Aug 13, 2022 |
Stories and personal accounts used as evidence that culture did thrive on the early days of the plains, contrary to popular belief.
 
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yellerreads | 1 outra crítica | Jul 2, 2018 |
Great Plains cooking as seen through the writings of Willa Cather.
 
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yellerreads | Jun 6, 2014 |
Roger gives his fellow gender-mates an overview of the curriculum to be found in the secret woman-school. He always makes me laugh, even when he's giving away the deepest secrets of our sisterhood. Actually it doesn't hurt anything. Even when men know what women are up to, there's nothing they can do about it!
 
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MerryMary | 1 outra crítica | Oct 2, 2008 |

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Estatísticas

Obras
53
Also by
2
Membros
753
Popularidade
#33,776
Avaliação
3.8
Críticas
13
ISBN
66
Marcado como favorito
2

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