Episode Synopsis "The Baldwin Ranches of Dickey County"

Pushing boxes and pulling folders from the massive Baldwin Corporation Records held for the Institute for Regional Studies at NDSU Archives, I come to the realization we have a lot to learn about life on the plains by rereading the considerable — I should say massive — documentation available in the reading room. Given that the papers of the Baldwin Farms in Dickey County alone comprise 32 feet of records, it’s a heck of a job.

Listen "The Baldwin Ranches of Dickey County"

More episodes of the podcast Plains Folk

• The Phobia of Hydrophobia
• The Smell of Paint
• Heartbreak and Dying by Inches
• First Chapters
• Confession Is Good for the Soil
• Mr. Power’s Letterpress
• The Bullhead Craze
• History and Memory
• Juneberries on the 4th of July
• Young Love in the Juneberries
• Talking About the Weather
• The Weekend of Lawrence Welk
• The True Patriot
• Syttende Mai
• The Tree of Life
• Our Songs
• The Baldwin Ranches of Dickey County
• Baldwin Farms
• 1889
• The Pasque