Lone Prairie Magazine: North Dakota

Poem: A Bad Day Farming, Illustrated

Julie R. Neidlinger — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 21:30:39 GMT

When Jerusalem On The Prairie Passes Away

Julie R. Neidlinger — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 20:30:41 GMT

While reading disparaging online comments about North Dakota— which are not difficult to find online—and its lack of acceptable diversity, I came across a numbskull who commented that there was probably only one Jewish person ever in North Dakota.

My mother could tell you otherwise.

Boy, could she.

My friend jokes about how, on his first visit to my fam…

A Perfect Quarter of Land

Julie R. Neidlinger — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 20:16:38 GMT

Blue Like A River: By The Numbers

Julie R. Neidlinger — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 16:22:17 GMT

Blue Like A River: Dakota Access Pipeline Protest Timeline

Julie R. Neidlinger — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 18:05:47 GMT

Blue Like A River: Maps

Julie R. Neidlinger — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 14:58:41 GMT

Poem: Field Lunch

Julie R. Neidlinger — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 21:11:34 GMT

Blue Like A River: The Lawsuit, The Jerk, and the Road Forward

Julie R. Neidlinger — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 19:35:42 GMT

Blue Like A River: Interview with a Standing Rock Elder

Julie R. Neidlinger — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 18:00:21 GMT

Blue Like A River: Blue Highways and the Wisdom of Elders

Julie R. Neidlinger — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 15:09:35 GMT

We travel highways, all our live-long days.

William Least Heat-Moon, who is part Native American, had lost his job and his wife and took to the road, where maybe such losses can lose their sting. The result was the book Blue Highways: A Journey Into America.1

Least Heat-Moon describes his reasoning eloquently: “On the old highway maps of America, the mai…

Blue Like A River: A Prayer Meeting and a Documentary

Julie R. Neidlinger — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 17:46:10 GMT

Blue Like A River: Scott Davis Interview

Julie R. Neidlinger — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 15:32:38 GMT

Blue Like A River: James Schmidt Interview

Julie R. Neidlinger — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 15:01:45 GMT

Blue Like A River: In the place where the fight was.

Julie R. Neidlinger — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 14:45:26 GMT

Alice Corbin Henderson, the poet whose work often focused on Native Americans, said it. “In the place where the fight was, across the river…” she wrote, and I wonder how she knew.1

The Missouri River winds slow and thick through the rolling hills of western North Dakota. Cities and refineries and pastures can be found on its shores. Bridges go over it an…

Burleigh County, ATVs, and the importance of private property rights.

Julie R. Neidlinger — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 17:05:43 GMT

Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. — John Adams, in a letter to the Massachusetts militia on October 11, 1798

It is my opinion that as more Americans (and North Dakotans in particular) have reduced their connection to the land, their understanding of private property ri…

Blue Like A River: Julie Ellingson interview.

Julie R. Neidlinger — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 15:00:58 GMT

Blue Like A River: Who owns the land?

Julie R. Neidlinger — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 15:01:27 GMT

The Beauty of Harvest Despite Jerkwater Equipment

Julie R. Neidlinger — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 21:08:38 GMT

Blue Like A River: Private security and the vacuum principle.

Julie R. Neidlinger — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 15:01:12 GMT

Blue Like A River: Private security officer interview.

Julie R. Neidlinger — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 15:01:31 GMT