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A Review of Pioneering during the Opening of the Midwest Plains, by L.M. Puffer
Collection
Identifier: SC 1217
Abstract
Typed reminiscence of pioneering days in Dickey County, N.D. of the Puffer family, who came to Port Emma Township, Dickey County, N.D. from Wisconsin in 1883. Mentions Ellendale, N.D., a brother M.H. (Myron Henry), various early Dickey County settlers, digging water wells, sod shanty construction, plowing, gathering buffalo bones, polishing buffalo horns to be used as gifts, and source of the name for Hayti, S.D.
Dates:
Majority of material found within [195-].
Aagot Raaen Papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss 8
Overview
The Aagot Raaen Papers contain research material and manuscripts for her book Grass of the Earth, correspondence including letters sent to the teachers and school officers by Miss Raaen while she was the Superintendent of Schools of Steele County, N.D., research on the the Hamarsbøn family in Norway and America, and several articles written by Raaen.
Dates:
1915-1953.
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
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Aagot Raaen Papers
Aagot Raaen Papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss 177
Overview
The Aagot Raaen Papers consist of photocopies of the original papers at the Hatton-Eielson Museum and Historical Association, copied with their permission. Her diaries from Sept. 1939 to Sept. 1941 are very detailed, documenting her teaching in the Newburgh community, personal feelings, and social affairs. The handwritten 1873-1938 "diary" (ca. 42 leaves) as Raaen called it, is more accurately a chronology of her life and of the Raaen family compiled many years later. The family papers include...
Dates:
1798-1957; Majority of material found within 1890-1957
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
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Aagot Raaen Papers
Aagot Raaen Photograph Collection
Collection
Identifier: Photo 527
Abstract
The Aagot Raaen was a Norwegian-American author of the book Grass of the Earth, and the Superintendent of Schools of Steele County, N.D.
Dates:
1870s-1950s
Aden S. Pratt Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 1043
Overview
Photocopy of letter by Mr. Pratt to relatives in Michigan concerning the winter of 1897 and pioneer life in North Dakota and brief Pratt family history.
Dates:
1897; 1983
Alan W. Rice Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 761
Abstract
Letter with biographical information on Thomas M. Walker, typed summary of interview (7 leaves) with Leonard Sackett, concerning Thomas Walker and his family who lived near Grandin, N.D. Includes a biographical sketch of Walker, manager of Rand and Brown Farm and Alan Rice's uncle, separation of his parents, his brothers and sisters, growing up in Traill County, raising turkeys at Walker's farm, Blanche Walker, adopted daughter of Thomas and Agnes (Coughay) Walker, taking a bust of grandfather,...
Dates:
1956.
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
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Alan W. Rice Papers
Alfred N. Terry Interview
Item
Identifier: SC 244
Abstract
Interview with Alfred Terry, bookkeeper for the Dalrymple bonanza farm, Casselton, North Dakota.
Dates:
1954.
Andrew H. Laughlin Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 172
Abstract
Correspondence, diary (1917) of Laughlin's son, Leigh Laughlin, train passes, and clippings, chiefly relating to daily activities and local events.
Dates:
1894-1954
Andrew Jensen Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 77
Abstract
Invitation, fiftieth wedding anniversary booklet, and newspaper articles. Articles include obituaries of various family members, wedding announcements, historical piece on Ingeborg Jensen, and two articles on son Thomas D. and life in Alaska.
Dates:
1926-1960
Andrew Jespersen Interview
Collection
Identifier: SC 502
Abstract
Letter, typed interview summary (9 leaves) and copy with notations concerning the Park Farm, steam engines, death of his brother-in-law from a steam engine explosion, digging wells for water, military and Indian artifacts found on his land, tree planting, father Peter Jespersen. Also includes obituary of Jespersen.
Dates:
1954; 1959