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Bert M. Salisbury Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 64
Abstract
Correspondence (1935-1936), reminiscences relating to Salisbury's career and local politics, speeches, contracts, and expense account records. Includes information pertaining to the Benson County Holiday Association and his activities as secretary and also to the North Dakota Farm Holiday Association.
Dates:
1935-1953.
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
Hunting on the Island Column
Collection
Identifier: SC 796
Abstract
Series of 52 weekly articles written by Ward and published in the Benson County Farmers Press newspaper in 2005 and 2006. Inventory of the articles compiled by Ward list the genre as 'memoir, seasoned with nostalgia.' Some of the topics include Minnewaukan & Graham's Island, the Ward family, the 1940s and 1950s, farming, cattle, people, and buildings. Holidays, books, sports and sin. They are written in serious, funny and sentimental tones.
Dates:
2005-2006
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
Ralph D. Ward Papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss 354
Abstract
Mr. Ward was a North Dakota rancher and banker. The collection contains correspondence dealing chiefly with farming, ranching, legal and financial matters, land transactions, politics and banking; and biographical stories by his uncle Henry Ward, about pioneer life in in Dakota Territory to include Black Hills gold mining, 1881 Mandan flood, life in Owego colony in 1873, and hauling freight in a blizzard. There is also clippings and articles on Ward's father-in-law, Reuben N. Stevens, and the...
Dates:
1875-1960.
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
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- Benson County (N.D.). Auditor. 1
- Benson County Holiday Association (Benson County, N.D.) 1
- Bond, Walter R., 1871-1947. 1
- Erickson, Alfred O. 1
- Hanley, James M., 1877-1947. 1
- Hanna, Louis B. (Louis Benjamin), 1861-1948. 1
- Independent Voters Association (N.D.) 1
- Lemke, William, 1878-1950. 1
- McCumber, Porter J. (Porter James), 1856-1933. 1
- North Dakota Farm Holiday Association. 1
- North Dakota Taxpayers Association. 1
- Power, J. A. (James A.), d. 1924. 1
- Salisbury, Bert M. (Bert Marl), 1891-1972. 1
- Shepperd, John H. (John Henry), 1869-1939. 1
- Stevens, Reuben N. 1
- Twichell, Luther Lathrop, 1872-1944. 1
- Ward family. 1
- Ward, Henry. 1
- Ward, Ralph David, 1873-1951. 1
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