The Challenge of the Prairie ( Life and Times of the Red River Pioneers) by Drache, Hiram M - 1970

Fargo: North Dakota Institute for Regional Studies, 1970. Second printing. Hardcover. Very Good/good. Includes illustrations, maps (on lining papers), portraits, bibliography, and index. A possible source of genealogy. Edgewear to dustjacket, previous owner's name on front pastedown, else a clean, unmarked copy.

Fargo, ND: North Dakota Institute for Regional Studies. Inscribed By Author. Fine clean hard cover with good + dust jacket. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall . Fine. Hardcover. Fourth Printing. 1974.

North Dakota Institute for Regional Studies. 1977 %th VG/-, No DJ, the history of the Red River Valley of North Dakota, 360 pages, maps end pages,

North Dakota Institute for Regional Studies. First Edition. hardcover. Acceptable. 9x6x1. Signed by the Author with Inscription, Cloth Hardcover, MISSING Dust Jacket, Some cover corner & edge wear, Gift Inscription inside, Otherwise pages are clean, tight & flat. Item Shrink-wrapped for additional protection

North Dakota Inst for Regional Studies. Very Good. Very good hardcover in dust jacket. Very minor wear/chipping to jacket edges, also age tanning. Previous owner's incription on title page in pen. Age tanning to pages, otherwise pages are clean and binding is tight.

Fargo: North Dakota Institute for Regional Studies, 1970. Hardcover. Near fine/very good. Bound in the publisher's original green cloth covered boards, spine stamped in green. Dust jacket lightly rubbed at the edges and extremities. Ex-library blind stamped on title pages.

Fargo, ND: North Dakota Institute for Regional Studies, 1970. Second Printing . Hardcover. Very Good/Poor. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 360pp.incl.index; HB green w/dk.green; some rub w/wear on corners; tanning on title; clean,tight pgs. DJ gray w/white&blue-pic.cover; in pieces w/missing parts; rubbed&sunned. in mylar. " ...personalities, characteristics and peculiarities of some of the most important early settlers along the Red River of the North." illus.

Fargo, ND: North Dakota Institute for Regional Studies. A 3rd printing manufactured in 1971. Turquoise color cloth hardback Inscribed by the author to someone of local interest on the blank endpaper in ink: "Happy reading to Bob Murphy who has deep roots in Red River land Hiram M. Drache." . VG Plus. Hardcover. 3rd Printing. 1971.

Minneapolis: Lund Press. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1970. Hardcover. Signed by author. .

North Dakota Institute for Regional Studies, 1979. 5th or later Printing. Hardcover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [xiii], 360pp w bibliography and index. One unpaginated section of historical bw photographs w captions. Cartographic endpapers. Inscribed by the author on title page. Photo illustrated boards are clean and without wear. Binding square and sound. Sixth printing - October 1979, stated. A history of the Red River Valley of North Dakota.