Episode 25: Jim Ragen

Published: Dec. 31, 2014, 5 a.m.

b'For over forty years, with career, family and various natural disasters intervening, Jim Ragen has been at work\\xa0on a five-volume novel spanning generations of life in the Dakotas. He turned down an offer to publish his writing\\xa0in his mid-twenties because he knew he needed a lifetime of experience to best tell his story, which centers around the devastating 1972 flood in Rapid City, South Dakota that changed his life.'