Scope and Content From the Collection: This collection is made up of six handwritten diaries chronicling the day-to-day life of a young Dakota Territory farmer during the years 1886 through 1894. All the diary entries are in hard cover, ruled journals. They have been organized by year. The final journal contains a mixture of school lessons and accounting.The first diary spans the dates January 1, 1886 to June 12, 1897, is 148 pages. It has Claud Dwyer at age 16, and discussing daily farm life of the family’s 320 acre...