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Huldah Lucile Winsted
A poet, teacher, and early champion of Minot State, she wrote warmly about North Dakota’s landscape and spirit. Her work blends regional pride with the eye of someone deeply involved in education and community life.
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In the Land of Dakota: A Little Book of North Dakota Verse
by Huldah Lucile Winsted
About the author
Born in Sweden in 1884, Huldah Lucile Winsted later built much of her life and career in North Dakota. She is best known as the author of In the Land of Dakota: A Little Book of North Dakota Verse, and records of her work also show her writing on education, including The Open-Air School Movement.
Winsted was part of the original faculty at Minot Normal School in 1913, where she taught geography and served for many years as Dean of Women. Minot State University also credits her as the school’s first librarian and notes that she donated books from her own collection to help the young library grow.
That mix of scholarship, teaching, and local loyalty helps explain the character of her writing. Her poems are closely tied to place, especially the northern plains, and they still stand as a thoughtful literary record of North Dakota life in the early 20th century.