Works by Lynwood E. Oyos
Lynwood E. Oyos was born in North
Dakota and for more than forty years has
been a resident of South Dakota. Dr.
Oyos (Ph.D., University of Nebraska) is
Professor Emeritus of History at
Augustana College, Sioux Falls, where he
taught European and American,
specifically South Dakota, history, from
1957 until 1994. Among his published
works are The Little Church That Grew
and Grew (1971), Prairie Faith, Pioneering
People: A History of the Lutheran Church in
South Dakota (1981), Over a Century of
Leadership: South Dakota's Territorial and
State Governors (1987), A Noble Calling
(1990), and Following in His Steps: The
Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan
Society, 1922-1997 (1998). He has been
named a Danforth Associate (1981) and
has received a Burlington Northern
Faculty Achievement Award (1987) and
the Orin M. Lofthus Distinguished
Professorship at Augustana College
(1992-94).
