Sod House Days in the Red River Valley Records
Collection
Identifier: SC 1058
Scope and Contents
Typed reminiscence (19 leaves) on his pioneer Norwegian immigrant parents, Andrew and Christine Overby, who settled in Wilkin County, Minn. in 1890. Includes mention of digging water wells, plowing with oxen, description of a sod house, David McCauley and McCauleyville, Minn., road construction, peddlers, threshing, butchering, stage coaches, passenger and freight traffic on the Red River, expansion of the railroad, blizzards and weather during the 1896-1897 winter, and the naming of Wilkin County. Also includes a clipping on the family. The reminiscence includes a copy print of Andrew Overby's sod house and at a logging camp at Rice Lake, Wisc.
Dates
- Majority of material found within [196-].
Creator
- Overby, Arthur, 1902- (Person)
Access
The collection is open under the rules and regulations of the Institute.
Copyrights
Copyrights to this collection are held by the Institute.
Biography
Wolverton, Minn. farmer.
Extent
2 Items (2 items.)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Typed reminiscence (19 leaves) on his pioneer Norwegian immigrant parents, Andrew and Christine Overby, who settled in Wilkin County, Minn. in 1890. Includes mention of digging water wells, plowing with oxen, description of a sod house, David McCauley and McCauleyville, Minn., road construction, peddlers, threshing, butchering, stage coaches, passenger and freight traffic on the Red River, expansion of the railroad, blizzards and weather during the 1896-1897 winter, and the naming of Wilkin County. Also includes a clipping on the family. The reminiscence includes a copy print of Andrew Overby's sod house and at a logging camp at Rice Lake, Wisc.
Provenance
Donated by Unknown.
Property rights
The Institute for Regional Studies owns the property rights to this collection.
- Clippings.
- Farmers -- Minnesota.
- Flatboats -- Minnesota.
- Frontier and pioneer life -- Minnesota -- Wilkin County.
- Manuscripts.
- McCauley, David, 1825-1900.
- McCauleyville (Minn.)
- Norwegian Americans -- Minnesota.
- Overby family.
- Overby, Andrew, 1862-1938.
- Overby, Arthur, 1902-
- Overby, Christine, 1860-1962.
- Oxen -- Minnesota.
- Peddlers and peddling -- Minnesota.
- Photographs.
- Reminiscences.
- Roads -- Minnesota -- Design and construction.
- Soap -- Minnesota.
- Sod houses -- Minnesota.
- Threshing -- Minnesota.
- Water-supply -- Minnesota.
- Wilkin County (Minn.)
- Wolverton (Minn.)
Creator
- Overby, Arthur, 1902- (Person)
- Title
- Finding Aid to the Sod House Days in the Red River Valley Records
- Description rules
- Appm
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Institute for Regional Studies Repository
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