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Five for the Land and Its People tells the story of five pioneering agri-scientists who devoted their considerable energies and abilities to the North Dakota Agricultural College and Experiment Station. The author, Bill G. Reid, has based his account on the extensive archival material available in the North Dakota Institute for Regional Studies on the campus of North Dakota State University. He has fashioned readable portraits of each of the five men - Clare Bailey Waldron, Henry Luke Bolley, Edwin Fremont Ladd, John Henry Shepperd and Lawrence Root Waldron. By combining personal glimpses of the five with a narrative of their professional achievements and disappointments, he has produced an account of men who lived in another age but who are understandable to the present generation.
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Building the road near College Hall at NDAC (later called Old Main) ca 1892. |
| ABOUT THE AUTHOR Bill Reid taught American history at North Dakota State University for 19 years before retiring in 1986. He also was a member of the faculties of Lamar State (Texas), East Central (Oklahoma) State, and Wichita State University. In addition to his teaching role at NDSU, Reid served as University archivist as well as both archivist and editor for the North Dakota Institute for Regional Studies. Reid received his doctorate at the University of Oklahoma after completing work on his B.A. and M.A. degrees at Eastern New Mexico University. Reid received the Blue Key Distinguished Educator Award in 1982. |
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