Roger Welsch's Books

	Forty Acres and a Fool. This is Roger's guide to rural living for "city pukes." Here you will find his every mistake and his suggestions for avoiding them if you have plans to move into America's rural countryside. There is no other book like this one and it is crucial for the newbie in the country. Cloth $22
	My Nebraska. Rog's license plates say CAPTNEB.Captain Nebraska.and he considers himself the State's super hero. My Nebraska is his take on this State so adored by him and so reviled by others. Rog thinks he may have to enter the Author Protection Program once this book gets around because his opinions about Nebraska (like his opinions about so many other things!) are anything but middle of the road! Cloth $25
	Weed 'Em and Reap: A Weed Eater Reader. Not a lot of people remember my flirtation with wild foods but this is where my work with Charles Kuralt began. The book provides the perfect excuse to avoid lawn care and to look at your lawn instead as a self-maintenance salad bar! Paper $15
	Tinkering to Torqueing. An introduction to tractors and tools for anyone just beginning the hobby or for the outsider "enabler" who has to put up with a tractors and tools idiot. Read this one and you'll have some idea what the heck those guys are talking about! Cloth $22
	A Life with Dogs. A real love story if there ever was one. Rog tells about his lifelong affair with dogs, in his inimitable style. As they say, "You will laugh, you will cry." Cloth. $22
	Outhouses. With this complete guide to privies, Rog finishes the project he started with Diggin' In, Piggin' Out, a study of food through the alimentary canal! There hasn't been a hymn to the outhouse like this since Chick Sales' s The Specialist. $15 cloth.
	The Tractor Trilogy. The closest thing there is to a tractor bible, this is all three of Rog's first tractor books in one cloth cover, with some new material tossed in to bring them up to date. If you don't have any of Rog's tractor books, THIS is what you need. $25 cloth.
	Everything I know about women I learned from my tractor. Rog explores the mysteries of Woman School and everything he knows about women. Linda says the book should therefore have been a pamphlet! This is the answer to all your problems about love, marriage, sex, and romance a la Roger Welsch. $20 cloth.
	Operators Manual for Model DA Dazist Allis. The most unlikely of Rog's books. a standard Jensales tractor manual.but wait a minute-this is the wackiest thing you've seen in print! Try it and see.but stand back. $7 paper
	Love, Sex, and Old Tractors: The Eternal Triangle. Herein are all of Rog's secrets about romance and mechanicking. We're betting this will change the coarse [sic] of mankind! Not available for sale to women without written permission from an adult male. $15 paper $20 cloth (pub'd at $25!)
	Postcards from Nebraska... The stories behind the stories of Rog's 200 essays for CBS News Sunday Morning... Read this and you'll know why Charles Kuralt asked Rog to be a part of the show. $14 paper
	You Know You're an Old Tractor Nut When. Rog teams up again with Paul Fell for hilarious cartoons about Rog's real love, old tractors. A must on the shelf of any mechanic.or anyone trying to figure out mechanics! $9 paper.
	Diggin' In and Piggin' Out, The Truth about Men and Food-- Roger's hilarious book about what he knows best--food. This is a classic! Named one of 1997's ten best cookbooks by Bon Appetit magazine... even though it's not a cookbook! $13 paper
	Old Tractors and the Men Who Love Them-- A hilarious look at Rog's passion for old tractors. This is a book for everyone, tractor nut or not. You'll agree with the rave reviews. $14.95 (paper)
	Busted Tractors and Rusty Knuckles-Rog leads us through agonies and victories of tractor restoration from rolling a wreck to his shop to the triumph of toasting the revived engine with cheap champagne $14.95 (paper)
	The Liars Corner-- Three years of Rog's humor column in the Nebr Farmer magazine. The best of agricultural humor! $6 (paper)
	Liars Too: The Legend Continues-- A second collection of Roger's popular Nebraska Farmer column, 3 more years of rural laughter. $5.95 (paper)
	It's Not the End of the Earth But You Can See It From Here-- Roger's best-selling collection of sensitive, humorous stories about rural life. This will be one of your favorites. $15.95 (paper)
	Sod Walls: The Story of the Nebraska Sod House-- Long out of print, this richly illustrated book is the original and best examination of sod-house construction and life in it. $14.95 (paper)
	Shingling the Fog and Other Plains Lies-- The basic collection of Plains tall tales and humor, a dozen laughs on every page. $10 (paper)
	Treasury of Nebraska Pioneer Folklore-- Roger's first book, published in 1966 and still in print. A rich sampler of frontier folklore and a Plains classic. $16.95 (paper)
	Catfish at the Pump--The Humor of the Frontier-- Tall-tales, jokes, pranks--the sound of laughter was as common on the frontier as that of the axe or the rifle. Here are the punch-lines that made the frontier ring. $8 (paper)
	Mister, You Got Yourself a Horse-- Horse-trading stories collected by WPA workers from old-time traders themselves. Remarkable narratives about remarkable people...and their horses. $10.95 (paper)
	You Know You're a Nebraskan... Cartoon collection done with Paul Fell. Roger says, "You'll see someone you know on every page." $6.95 (paper)
	Cather's Kitchens-- A unique examination of Cather's use of food and foodways as a literary device--along with the recipes from her own family's recipe files and cookbooks. $16.95 (cloth) ON SALE!!! 12.95!
	Omaha Tribal Myths and Trickster Tales-- Long out of print, this collection of 19th-century Omaha Indian tales, retranslated and annotated by Roger, is again available. $14.95 (paper)
	How Cold Is It?-- Roger joined forces with master cartoonist and old friend Paul Fell for this hilarious coverage of Nebraska winters--or at least what Nebraskans would have you believe about them! $6.95 (paper)
	Touching the Fire-- Roger's powerful story of a fictional Nehawka medicine bundle, out of print for years, but we still have a few rare, signed cloth copies at $17. This book received rave reviews, even from Native reviewers.
	Please note to that Roger's work is now carried in each issue of NEBRASKA LIFE MAGAZINE, a very handsome periodical issued six times a year and available from NEBRASKA LIFE PO Box 819 Norfolk NE 68702-0819 1-800-777-6159 Tell 'em Rog sent you!

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