James A. Janke

Associate Professor
Finance
College of Business and Information Systems
Dakota State University
Madison, SD 57042

jim.janke@dsu.edu

Degrees

• MBA Finance, University of Wisconsin - Madison , 1985.
• PhD Chemistry, University of Minnesota , 1970.
• BS Chemistry, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, 1965.

Areas of Study

• Finance and investments
• Futures and options
• Investment contests in the finance and economics classroom
• Statistical and financial spreadsheet analysis in instruction, finance, and business
• Econometrics and financial forecasting
• Commercial Banking
• Entrepreneurship
• Book publishing
• The American Civil War
• The American Old West
• Creative Writing: Fiction

Web Resources

Finance Sites I Maintain

• Finance Resources on the World Wide Web, Janke
• Finance at Dakota State University
• $tock Market Contest, Janke
• Futures Market Contest, Janke

Other Sites I Maintain

• The American Civil War
• The American Old West
• Creative Writing: Fiction
• Fiction Links, Janke

Other Links

• Adventures of Wells Fargo, Wells Fargo Bank (nifty stagecoaches)
• American Chemical Society
• Bird Song Recordings, wav. files
• Carleton College, from which Laura graduated in June 2003
• The CAT User's Manual, User Installation and Maintenance Documentation
• Chesapeake Bay Foundation
• Chess, Yahoo
• Chocolate Lover's Page
• Chocolate Spa at the Hotel Hershey in Hershey, PA
• Hershey Foods Corp.
• Hershey, PA
• Hurricane Floyd, September 16, 1999, view outside my Maryland back porch door
• Klingon Language Institute
• Lawyer Joke Emporium, Nolo Press
• Mariners' Museum
• M&M's
• Molecular Expressions, graffitti on the microchip
• Montana Forest Fire (fantastic photo! Photo Credit: John McColgan)
• The Mother of All Maritime Lists, John Kohnen
• Mystic Seaport
• National Audubon Society
• Nautical Fiction List, John Kohnen
• Nome, Alaska, my visit in July 2003
• Patrick O'Brian Home Page, W. W, Norton. Patrick O'Brian is an author of superb British naval fiction - Napoleonic era. He is also simply a superb master of the English language. One of my most favorite authors.
• Patrick O'Brian Web Resources
• Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, based on two of O'Brian's novels
• The Electric Postcard, a virtual postcard service
• 1001 Postcards, another virtual postcard service
• The Public Debt to the Penny
• Schooner Sultana, Chestertown, MD
• Shakespeare, complete works
• Shakespearean Insult Service
• Star Trek
• Star Wars
• Today in History, Library of Congress
• Mark Twain Quotes
• University of Oklahoma, from which Andrew graduated in May 2000
• U.S. Chess Federation
• Washington College, Chestertown, MD (I taught there one academic year, 1999-2000)
• Wells Fargo History Museums, Wells Fargo 

Family

• Andrew
• Laura
• My kids

The Cowboy at Heart

July 1998

I'm sure I was born a hundred years too late. Here I am with my brother's horse Ty.
Ty is the one wearing the saddle.

The Broken Wheel Ranch
2000:	[Purchased "as is"] [From a distance] [Closer] [From the rear] [From the front (mowed the lawn)] [Winter]
2001:	[Crabapple tree in bloom] [Horses nearby (not mine)] [View from my home office window] [Outbuildings] [Old well] [From the rear with cornfield] [From the rear showing all the outbuildings] [Picnic area (I made the table)] [Painted] [Autumn at the ranch] [The broken wheel in winter] [Ranch house in winter] [No campfires for awhile]
2002:	[Fallen tree] [Nature trail in the treeline] [Another view of the trail] [The hog house - now a hay barn] [Hay racks] [Granary]  [Some other outbuildings] [Tool shed] [Evening colors] [Campfire circle (I made the bench)] [Cattle (not mine) across the road] [South side of ranchhouse] [Mouse patrol: La Gata Blanca (Blanca for short) and Owen Wister] [Grew some twosome] [The ranch owner and his cats] [What's a ranch without cattle, huh?]
2003:	[All done painting] [Broken Wheel Ranch sign, with brand] [Hay in the hay barn] [Hay fresh offloaded into the granary] [Barn swallow nest in the granary] [Storm damage] [Fallen trees] [Roses] [Lilacs] [Tulips] [Morning glory] [Blanca the cat] [Blanca on a fallen log] [Blanca and new kitten] [Blanca and Dusty between the studs]  [Dusty three weeks old]  [Blanca and Dusty at 5 weeks] [Dusty five weeks old] [Campfire] [Bagged my first pine tree] [Blanca and Dusty, 7 weeks old] [Dusty] [Dusty] [Dusty] [View of the ranch from the southeast, in the late afternoon]
2004:	[An icy broken wheel] [Blanca trying to blend in with the snow] [100 freshly stacked bales of hay] [Firewood ready for the summer campfire/cookout season] [Back of the house very late afternoon] [Outbuildings very late afternoon] [wishing I had a campfire] [my favorite spot on the ranch] [welcome] [morning glory] [morning glories] [more morning glories] [new Black Hills spruce this year] [new linden tree this year] [sunny afternoon in the backyard]
2005
[Birds at the Broken Wheel Ranch]

My Western Novels

• Jeremiah Bacon, Dell, 1980.
• McHenry's Last Shoot-Out, Avalon, 1992.
• A Tin Star for Braddock, Avalon, 1992.
• Blood on the Wind River Mountains, Avalon, 1993.
• Winter Kill, Avalon, 1994.
• Last Boat to Fort Benton, Avalon, 1994. (in new window)
• Last Stage to Laramie, Avalon, 1995. (in new window)

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http://homepages.dsu.edu/jankej/personal/jaj.htm
Contact me at jim.janke@dsu.edu
Last update: October 8, 2004

since August 11, 2003

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