Bonanza farms -- North Dakota.
Subject
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Found in 131 Collections and/or Records:
Dalrymple Farms Records
Collection
Identifier: SC 67
Abstract
Correspondence, including letter (1880) to A.R. Dalrymple from Oliver Dalrymple; interviews with Erasmus G. Hagen, John Hanson, Joseph Hanson, Ralph L. Miller, David and Nellie Minnis, and John H. Pannebaker; index to articles concerning bonanza farms and the Dalrymples; financial statements (1907, 1910, 1918); inventories (1908-1909, 1911-1917, 1919), and cultivation statements, crop disposition, and crop income and distribution statements (1908-1919); and clippings relating to Oliver and...
Dates:
1880-ca. 1950
Datus C. Smith Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 159
Abstract
Owner and operator of bonanza farm, Belle Prairie Farm (formerly Cloverlea Farm), near Blanchard, N.D., in Traill County.
Dates:
1871-1922
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
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Datus C. Smith Papers
Della Smith Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 651
Abstract
Typed summary of interview (4 leaves) with Leonard Sackett which concerns the Chaffee family, and F.H. and George N. Smith, brothers who homesteaded north of Amenia, N.D. Includes mention of work at Amenia and Sharon Land Co., rules for hired men including church attendance, the Smith brothers' farm partnership, their terms in the N.D. and S.D. legislatures (F.H. elected to S.D. legislature, George N. to N.D. House, F. Paul to N.D. House), losing the S.D. farmland in the 1920s, business...
Dates:
1955-1956, 1969
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
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Della Smith Papers
Dewell E. Viker Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 108
Abstract
Correspondence, interview, legal material, map, and newspaper clippings, relating to Viker's purchase of Grandin Farm Trust (formerly Grandin Farm No. 1), bonanza farm headquartered in Mayville, Traill County, N.D., in 1946.
Dates:
1946-1958
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
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Dewell E. Viker Papers
Downing Farm Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 163
Abstract
Typed summary of interview with Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Lowe concerning the Downing Farm and its owner, Jerome F. Downing, his adopted son Steven Gerard Downing, and a letter containing the biographical information on Jerome F. Downing.
Dates:
1954-1956
Einar A. Hagen Interview
Collection
Identifier: SC 858
Abstract
Typed summary of interview concerning his pioneer father, Tobias Hagen, a Norwegian immigrant from Hadeland, Norway, Allie Power, and working on the Helendale Farm. Newspaper clipping about his sawmill included.
Dates:
1956-1957
Elizabeth Vangsness Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 759
Abstract
Typed summary of interview (4 leaves) concerning her father, Andrew Johnson, who homesteaded near Leonard, N.D. and Helendale Farm. Interview includes mention of her father, Andrew Johnson, who worked as a hired man at Helendale Farm, her cooking and laundry duties at Helendale Farm, being tutored by Annie Anderson, the Helendale Farm cook, meeting her future husband, Ludvig (Louis) and their separation due to his alcoholism, and the generosity of J.B. Power's sister-in-law, Mrs. W.A. Power....
Dates:
1955-1956
Elk Valley Farm Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 242
Abstract
Correspondence relating to Elk Valley Farm, a bonanza farm founded by N.G. Larimore (ca. 1881), owned by Elk Valley Farming Co., near Larimore, Grand Forks County, N.D.; history relating to William Crerar who worked on the farm; clippings; and other material. Correspondents include Larimore's daughter, Cora (Larimore) Trippet.
Dates:
1929-1955
Ella Radcliffe Bratland Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 254
Abstract
Ella Bratland was the daughter of Thomas Radcliffe, an early Helendale Farm barn boss, who died in 1939.
Dates:
1954-1956
Emil C. Ankerfelt Interview
Collection
Identifier: SC 619
Abstract
Typed summary of interview with Leonard Sackett (10 leaves) and corrections (3 leaves) concerning Ankerfelt's life, and the Helendale Farm upon which he worked. There is also some Ankerfelt family history information.
Dates:
1956