Carrington (N.D.)
Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
James Sweeney Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 1041
Abstract
Donor letter, and typed reminiscence "Narrative of James Sweeney," (12 leaves), as related to J. Ross Mackenzie (dated June 1, 1921), concerning Mr. Sweeney's life in the 5th U.S. Army in the 1850s and gold prospecting in Colorado, Utah and Nevada. Includes mention of the Mountain Meadows massacre, army duty in Texas, Florida, and Utah, pioneer wagon trains, rationing food, freight hauling in Nebraska, Wyoming, and S.D.
Dates:
1921, 1960
Leslie N. Putnam Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 591
Abstract
Typed summary of first interview (3 leaves) with Leonard Sackett concerning the Putnam family and their lumberyard business. Mentions Ralph L. Miller, business partner of T.N. Putnam; Leslie Putnam's struggle to retain the farm; T.N.'s career in lumber business; his election as Foster County Treasurer and both houses of N.D. legislature. Second interview (1 leaf) with Leonard Sackett mentions L.B. Hanna's purchase in 1932 of the Carrington and Casey ranch, includes references to Hanna's...
Dates:
1954.
Ralph L. Miller Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 447
Abstract
Letter, and two interviews. First interview (3 leaves) with Leonard Sackett mentions Melville, N.D., a business partnership with his uncle, T.N. Putnam, Carrington & Casey farm lands, Peter Zink, an area pioneer, Melville baseball team, and its most famous player, Billy Sunday. Second interview (7 leaves) with Ralph Miller and James Edward (Ed) Galehouse mentions Charlie Wing (known as C.K.), his trading and poker playing, a brothel near Carrington, brief mention of Mrs. Galehouse and Mabel...
Dates:
1954-1961.
Ralph L. Miller, Fernando and Clara Alice Reimers Interview
Collection
Identifier: SC 276
Abstract
Typed summary of interview with Fernando and Clara Alice Reimers and Ralph L. Miller concerning the Carrington & Casey Land Company, with mention of her parents, William and Georgia Walters, the hotel they managed in Melville, N.D., George D. Palmer, Carrington & Casey Ranch manager, his wife Susie who baked bread in large quantities, L.B. Hibbard, sale of some aged Carrington and Casey Ranch mules, L.B. and Robert Hanna managing the ranch, and a description of the ranch buildings....
Dates:
1954.