Bob Bartling and several like-minded people founded the Prairie Striders Running Club in 1969 to promote running, fellowship, and health. Bob began collecting books and magazines related to running and track and field, and by 1978, the Prairie Striders Running Club Library was established. It includes 636 volumes of books, about 5,000 periodicals and newsletters, and has the results of 16 annual races. The collection is so complete that even the editors of Runner’s World contact Bob for articles.
The Prairie Striders Library was housed in the basement of Bartling’s store for many years. The library moved to another location in downtown Brookings before finding a permanent home in the H.M. Briggs Library in June 2015. It is currently housed in the compact shelving on the lower level of the library.
This Book Gallery highlights the collection housed at the H.M. Briggs Library
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Run Across SD
Dave Griffith
Dave Griffith’s diary account of a 425-mile run across South Dakota from July 19 to August 2, 1970. Participating with Griffith were runners Jay Monfore and Loren Kambestad and driver Mike Pickinpaugh.
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Long Slow Distance; The Humane Way to Train
Joe Henderson
"A revolutionary is where you find him," wrote running's leading writer, Dr. George Sheehan, as he reflected on the revolution-charged 1960s. "He could be the guy next door. Joe Henderson looks like a typical guy next door. Out of Iowa, he has the smile and style of the heartland of America. But he has fallen for that old Socratic saw that the unexamined life is not worth living. The first result was revolt, rebellion and a booklet called Long Slow Distance: The Humane Way to Train. The LSD method of running that Henderson espouses is not new. He has simply systematized it and, in effect, founded a new order, a new sect that has bid pain, suffering and sacrifice good-bye. Joe Henderson is a revolutionary not because his writings have produced a wave of faster runners, but because he has spawned happier ones." This slim volume, published in 1969, chronicles the revolution in approaches and attitudes that helped spark the running boom of 1970s. Long Slow Distance tells the stories of Henderson and five fellow revolutionaries (Amby Burfoot, Bob Deines, Tom Osler, Ed Winrow and Jeff Kroot) who all revolted against the speed training in vogue at the time. Independently they arrived at similar conclusions about their long-distance training, slowing and going longer.
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SDSU Cross Country Summaries: 1968-1979
South Dakota State University
This is a collection of summaries for the SDSU cross country teams from 1969 to 1979.
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Jim Ryun, Master of the Mile
John Lake
Traces the track career of the boy who became the first high school student to run a four-minute mile and who at age nineteen had surpassed the achievements of all the milers in history.
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Jogging, Aerobics & Diet: One is not Enough, You Need all Three
Roy Ald
Why you need all three: jogging, aerobics & diet.
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Textbook of Medical Physiology
Arthur Guyton
This is a comprehensive yet concise edition geared toward medical and dental students enrolled in physiology courses. The textbook also serves as a review resource for physiology instructors. It offers specific discussions of pathophysiology in most clinical areas of medicine.
