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Bonanza farms -- North Dakota.

 Subject
Subject Source: Source Not Specified

Found in 131 Collections and/or Records:

Bessie Punton Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SC 314
Overview This collection contains correespondence related to the Punton family.
Dates: 1954-1960.

Blanchard Farm Records

 Collection
Identifier: SC 455
Abstract Letter of David McCulloch to Datus Smith, correspondence of Mrs. E. H. Smith of Linton, N.D. to Leonard Sackett, and her reminiscences about life on the bonanza farm, and her father David McCulloch who was its farm superintendent.
Dates: 1902, 1954

Byron N. Stone Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SC 1486
Abstract Typed copy of reminiscence entitled "Reminiscences of Byron N. Stone, Sr.," (21 leaves) on his parents, Aurelius and Sarah Ann (Shepherd) Stone. Reminiscence includes mention of his grandfather, John M. Shepherd, a Wisconsin pioneer, making lye, making maple sugar, moving to N.D. with his brother, Frederick, prairie fires, blizzards and winter travel, deaths from the winter weather, selecting the LaMoure county seat, his livery stable, owning and managing a hotel, managing the Downing Farm...
Dates: 1930-1967

Cass County Historical Society Records

 Collection
Identifier: SC 487
Abstract Correspondence, notices and minutes of meetings, pamphlets, broadsides, and newspaper clippings. Includes information relating to Bonanzaville U.S.A., a reconstructed village and living history museum commemorating the bonanza farm era, located in West Fargo, N.D., and operated by the society.
Dates: 1955-1980

Chaffee Family Collection of Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SC 134
Abstract Correspondence; excerpts from diary (1892-1909) of George L. Dunning, laborer and farm superintendent of Amenia and Sharon farm; genealogical material; term papers; biography of Eben Whitney Chaffee by W.C. Hunter; two interviews with H.L. Chaffee; and brochures relating to Oriente, a community planned for Nicaragua, of which E.W. Chaffee was president.
Dates: 1892-1955

Charles Bohnsack Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SC 451
Abstract Typed summary of interview (10 leaves) with Leonard Sackett concerning the Grandin farms where Bohnsack worked, his early life, and clippings about him, his children, and their farmland.
Dates: 1954-1968

Charles E. Davis Interview

 Collection
Identifier: SC 1116
Abstract Typed transcript of interview with Leonard Sackett concerning the Baldwin Land Company farms in Dickey County, and their management. Owned by George Baldwin, and later, his sons George B. and Charles F. Baldwin.
Dates: 1953

Charles H. Eggert Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SC 618
Abstract Typed summary (10 leaves) of interview with Leonard Sackett concerning Eggert's work on area farms, including the Leach Farm, and newspaper clippings which mention James Kennedy and the Leach Farm, the golden anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Eggert, and Mrs. Eggert's obituary.
Dates: 1950-1959

Charles R. Wright Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SC 275
Abstract Correspondence with Leonard Sackett of North Dakota Institute of Regional Studies, North Dakota State University Libraries, relating to Downing Farm, Wright family, and Annie McArthur; and summary of an interview concerning bonanza farms and the Downing Farm.
Dates: 1954-1956

Daisy Punton Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SC 510
Abstract Typed summary of interview (3 leaves) with Leonard Sackett concerning her husband, Thomas J. Punton; her father-in-law, Thomas Punton, Sr.; her sister-in-law, Bessie Punton; includes mention of John Burns, Park Farm and its steam engines, Thomas Punton Sr.'s purchase of Elgin Farm. Also includes clippings of various Punton family members.
Dates: 1954-1956