Abstract Typed summary of interview with Leonard Sackett concerning his parents, Knut and Barbara? (Larson) Rasmusen, Norwegian immigrants, who first settled near Preston Minn., later moving to Georgetown, Minn. in 1881. Includes brief mention of his brothers, John, a blacksmith who moved to S.D. to farm, returned to Fargo where he died in 1920, 1882 spring flooding of the Buffalo and Sheyenne rivers, Robert, a barber in Moorhead, and George's farm near Audubon, Minn.

Abstract Collection of pamphlets, flyers, clippings and publications related to the proposed Kindred Dam in Richland County, N.D. on the Sheyenne River. Among the publications are the The Destruction of North Dakota, and Comments on the Sheyenne River Project, by Robert L. Burgess (both published in 1970). An Analysis of the Proposed Army Corps of Engineers Project, Kindred Dam and Lake (1975), by Sheyenne Valley Association, and several 'Save the Sheyenne' brochures. There is also a transcript of the...

Abstract Typed copy of his reminiscence concerning his childhood home in Norway and early years in Kindred, N.D. Includes mention of his education in Norway, his cattle buying job in Norway, immigrating to the U.S., working as a hired man for other Norwegian settlers, a bout of typhoid fever, early settlers around Kindred, N.D. and on the Sheyenne and Wild Rice Rivers, brief mention of James Hill, and the Norman Lutheran Church.