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“Fifteen Years in North Dakota: Reminiscences” Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SC 572
Abstract Recounts Mr. Orre's experiences in the United States, primarily Barnes County, N.D., where he farmed with his cousin and fellow immigrant, Per Theodore Danielson. Documents in particular traveling to Valley City, N.D., working on local farms, logging in the northern woods of Minnesota, farming near Cuba, N.D., visiting Sweden in 1891/1892, and returning to Sweden in 1898. The farming experiences are the most detailed. Note that this reminiscences was originally published in Sweden in 1906 and...
Dates: 1906

Fred S. Rutledge Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 222
Abstract Fred Rutledge was a Walsh County, N.D. homesteader. His papers include correspondence; family histories of Becker, Canfield, Dickison, Harrison, Hudson, Lindell, Rutledge, and Wheelock families; his handwritten manuscript "A Christmas Vacation in Virginia" (52 p.), and a typed copy of his manuscript "Reminiscences of Fred Rutledge" (243 p.) covering his youth and days as a lumberjack, hobo, railroadman, thresher, and farmer in Minnesota and North Dakota.
Dates: 1884-1961

James B. Blanchard Reminiscences

 Collection
Identifier: SC 29
Abstract Slightly illegible typed copy of his reminiscences concerning the early days of Moorhead, his logging career, and incidents related to his job as a law officer in Moorhead, Minn.
Dates: 1917

John J. Shely Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 188
Abstract John Shely was a pioneer settler at Shelly, Minnesota.
Dates: 1872-1956

Tollef Torgerson Collection of Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SC 867
Abstract Typed summary of interview (5 leaves) concerning the George S. Barnes farm. Includes mention of various hired men who worked with Torgerson, horses and cattle on the Barnes Farm, shipping horses to logging camps in northern Minnesota in the winter, working at a logging camp, threshing equipment, buying his own farm land, and Jerry McCarthy, a Glyndon, Minn. farmer who froze to death. Also includes a clipping.
Dates: 1957.