Winter -- North Dakota.
Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
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
Frank Wisnewski Family Records
Collection
Identifier: SC 1928
Abstract
Typed family history concerning the Frank and Barbara (Brach) Wisnewski family. History begins about 1871 and ends in 1897. Includes mention of their early life in Pittsburgh, Pa., coming to N.D. in 1882, their sod house, the cold winters, carrying food supplies from Wahpeton, N.D., prairie fires, hauling wood to construct a roof, their children, working for area farmers, working on the railroad as it expanded, poverty in their early years, threshing, trading horses and oxen, adding rooms to...
Dates:
Majority of material found within [197-?].