Gary W. Wietgrefe   

(pronounced wit'grif)

Raised on a South Dakota farm and attended one-room schools, Gary Wietgrefe became one of America’s most diverse authors. He is a military intelligence veteran and attended the University of Maryland, University of Denver, and South Dakota State University before establishing a career in agriculture. Wietgrefe is an inventor with six patents in automated equipment design, engineering and biomass processing. He is an international researcher (Turkey and Mongolia), economist, agriculturalist, systems developer, societal explorer, cyclist, hiker, outdoorsman, poet, and author of eleven books. With his wife Patricia, they travel the world from Rapid City, South Dakota.

Gary and his wife, Patricia, traveled eight years on five continents after retirement while observing and documenting his findings and experiences. Example of one trip: After turning 65, he bicycled an average of 75-miles-per-day for 40 days from Pierre, South Dakota to North Pole, Alaska. When Covid shut down their travels they rented a cabin in the beautiful Black Hills of SD and he wrote his first award winning travel adventure: Destination North Pole—5,000 km by bicycle.

Want a quick read of humorous, mostly rhyming, country poems? Enjoy Dakota Country Poems.

Do you like historical fiction? If so, enjoy Wietgrefe’s first novel, Lessons of an Immigrant Father, based on a true family story. His grandfather, age 13 along with his brother 12, and 43-year-old immigrant father could not afford train fare to ship their cattle from Iowa to South Dakota. Instead, they walked two months behind their cattle for over 500 miles, hence the subtitle: 1905 cattle drive 500 miles to Dakota.

Gary is a certified agronomist and an internationally recognized expert of the ancient grain millet. Check out his books on the “ORDER” tab.

What does ancient mean? Could the difference between modern and ancient be the same reason grandparents buy books and newspapers and younger generations read electronic books, blogs, and engage social media on devices?

His books Culture and the mysterious agent changing it and Learning as it influences the 21st century help answer those profound questions. Both books have won Global Book Awards for self-published authors.

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