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Frontier and pioneer life -- North Dakota -- Dickey County.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

A Review of Pioneering during the Opening of the Midwest Plains, by L.M. Puffer

 Collection
Identifier: SC 1217
Abstract Typed reminiscence of pioneering days in Dickey County, N.D. of the Puffer family, who came to Port Emma Township, Dickey County, N.D. from Wisconsin in 1883. Mentions Ellendale, N.D., a brother M.H. (Myron Henry), various early Dickey County settlers, digging water wells, sod shanty construction, plowing, gathering buffalo bones, polishing buffalo horns to be used as gifts, and source of the name for Hayti, S.D.
Dates: Majority of material found within [195-].

Anna Dean Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SC 62
Abstract Photocopy of a historical article written on the early settlers of the Keystone and Monango, N.D. area including Porter Township.
Dates: circa 1910

George M. Lane Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SC 66
Abstract Mimeographed typed copy of Lane family history (2 leaves) by Cora Lane Kellogg entitled "George M. Lane family, early settlers in Dickey County, North Dakota," which includes their move to North Dakota and daughter Cora's marriage to Willard E. Kellogg in 1890; "Reminiscences of pioneer days in Dickey County, North Dakota," (1 leaf) by Cora Lane Kellogg concerns a false Indian scare and buying new shoes; "Cattle rustlers in Dickey County, North Dakota," (1 leaf) by George E. Lane which refers...
Dates: 1910

Peter C. Olsen Records

 Collection
Identifier: SC 303
Overview Contains items relating to the family of Peter C. Olsen.
Dates: 1911-1959