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143 Acknowledgments This book benefits from the knowledge, patience, goodwill, great humor, and support of many people and organizations. Concordia College in Moorhead , Minnesota, where I teach, has been extraordinary with their support. The Minnesota States Arts Board and the North Dakota Institute for Regional Studies contributed significant funds that allowed me to rent an airplane and go exploring. The USGS, NOAA, the Grand Forks office of the National Weather Service, the North Dakota Geological Survey, and the Army Corps of Engineers never failed to provide help or answer questions. The Canon Camera Company lent me a very nice compact camera that took most of the photographs in this book. There are people who deserve special mention because they either opened doors to information for me or suffered through early drafts of these chapters. Peter Chilson, Elizabeth Dodd, Joel Orth, Mike Paulson, Paul Seifert, Heidi Manning, Shawn Dobberstein, Daryl Ritchison, Mark Ewens, Dan Ehlen, Pat Valdata, Rich Schueneman, Fred Remer, and Fred J. Anderson all have my deep and heartfelt thanks. A number of the chapters in this book first appeared as essays in various magazines, sometimes in slightly revised form. My thanks to each of these journals and their editors: Air Facts—“Storm Flying” Alaska Quarterly Review—“Walking Chaucer” AOPA Flight Training—“Short-Hop Notebook: Math Class,” “Short-Hop Notebook: The Swoop” AOPA Pilot—“That Thing Up Front” Kenyon Review On-line—“The Beautiful Line” 144 Prairie Sky KinshipofRivers.org—“River Flying: The Red River” South Dakota Review and About Place: Trees—“A Wall of Old Trees” St. Katherine Review—“Thin Places and Thick Time: A Duet for Two Worlds” Tampa Review—“Tag” Terrain.org—“River Flying: The Sheyenne River” ...

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