Thomas D. Isern

Professor of History & University Distinguished Professor, North Dakota State University. Married to historian & editor Suzzanne Kelley. Home in North Dakota, farm in Kansas. Bethany Swede, OSU Cowboy, NDSU Bison. Thomas D. Isern (a.k.a. Tom Isern) has devoted his work to the study of history and life on the Great Plains of North America. Author, teacher, historian, folklorist, singer, public speaker, radio personality, heavy reader. Favored avocations involve things like snowshoes, juneberries, Browning Citoris, and Labrador retrievers. Life goals: see eight grandkids through college, sign twenty dissertations, navigate the family farm into its seventh generation. Still rooted in the wheat country of western Kansas. Still the guy who hit the buzzer-beater in the state semifinals of 1970.

Plains Folk on Prairie Public Radio - http://www.prairiepublic.org/radio/radio-programs-a-z/plains-folk/

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