Herbert Krause


Herbert Arthur Krause was an American historian, author and college professor. He was born and educated in Minnesota and South Dakota, where he taught and wrote. He was the author of novels, plays, poems, essays, and reviews. He also worked towards preservation of cultural heritage.

Background

Herbert Arthur Krause, a third-generation German American, was born on May 25, 1905 on a small farm in Friberg Township, Otter Tail County, north of Fergus Falls, Minnesota to Arthur Adolph Krause and Bertha Peters. He was educated at St. Olaf College and the University of Iowa.

Career as writer

Krause wrote three novels Wind Without Rain, The Thresher, and The Oxcart Trail, detailing the prairies of the American West. Herbert Krause won the Friends of American Writers Award in 1939 for Wind Without Rain.

Legacy

Herbert Krause died of congestive heart failure in 1976, at the age of 71, in Sioux Falls. In 1978 he was inducted into the South Dakota Hall of Fame, in the category of Education & Cultural Affairs. The Herbert A. Krause Collection at the Center for Western Studies contains collections of his papers and correspondence.

Selected bibliography