Before he became a household name as the host of his own self-titled television show, Lawrence Welk was a hardworking bandleader shaped by the rural Midwest, European folk traditions, and the rhythms ...

Arnold and Helen (Fritz) Kuhn ranched near Lefor, N.D., a small town southeast of Dickinson. They fit right in there, since they, like most of Lefor's residents, were of German-Hungarian descent. And ...