Special Collections Finding Aids

Abstract Typed summary of interview with Hiram Drache concerning the Cooper Ranch with some mention of livestock and farm operations, the Cooper family, and Charles Houghton, Hazard's father-in-law.

Overview Contains correspondence discussing a Southeastern North Dakota family.

Overview Contains the interview notes from the Leonard Sackett interivew and newspaper clippings.

Abstract Typed summary of interview (1 leaf) with Leonard Sackett concerning Baldwin Farms, his salary, introduction of alfalfa, plowing; typed copy of speech (5 leaves) entitled "What professional farm management stands for," typed copy of a newspaper clipping "Does farming pay," by A.E. Winship (1930) which mentions McNary's setting up a young unnamed Russian farmer in farming, newspaper clipping of Baldwin elevator being moved (1943), sale of the last pieces of land owned by Baldwin Corporation...

Abstract Power was a Northern Pacific land agent and farmer. The collection contains 14 volumes of indexed correspondence that give valuable information on the inside operation of the railroads and the opening of agricultural lands in North Dakota. The collection also contains material related to Power's farm at Helendale and the early settlement of the Red River Valley.

Abstract Typed summary of interview concerning his friendship with A.G. Holstrom, whom he met in 1896 or 1897 and to whom he introduced Rachel Holmes who later married Holstrom, his visits to Grandin Farms as tailor to A.R. Dalrymple, hunting with A.G. Holstrom, a loan to Holstrom which was not repaid, and Thornquist's partner, G.A. Sarles.

Abstract Two ledgers containing wage accounts of farm employees and records of personal property sale, financial records, land deeds, and Beattie's obituary.

Overview Biographical material relating to John Burns and the Burns family near Ayer, North Dakota.

Abstract Typed summary of interview with Leonard Sackett mentioning the Keystone and Adams farms, his father's first reaper, breaking his leg, Keystone Farm superintendents Jones, Yunker, and Merrifield.

Abstract Correspondence; taped interview with Christiansen concerning his settling near New Salem, N.D. (1883), and the pioneer years, with transcription (11 p.) of first side of tape; biographical sketch; pamphlet entitled Wrong Side Up; articles from American Milk Review and The Northwest; and clippings.