Herbert Arthur Krause (May 25, 1905 – September 22, 1976)[1] was an American historian, author and college professor.
Herbert Arthur Krause, a third-generation German American,[3] 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 (a farmer and blacksmith) and Bertha Peters.
[5] He 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.
[6] Herbert Krause died of congestive heart failure in 1976, at the age of 71, in Sioux Falls.