Frontier and pioneer life -- North Dakota -- Steele County.
Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
Aagot Raaen Papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss 8
Overview
The Aagot Raaen Papers contain research material and manuscripts for her book Grass of the Earth, correspondence including letters sent to the teachers and school officers by Miss Raaen while she was the Superintendent of Schools of Steele County, N.D., research on the the Hamarsbøn family in Norway and America, and several articles written by Raaen.
Dates:
1915-1953.
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
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Aagot Raaen Papers
Aagot Raaen Papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss 177
Overview
The Aagot Raaen Papers consist of photocopies of the original papers at the Hatton-Eielson Museum and Historical Association, copied with their permission. Her diaries from Sept. 1939 to Sept. 1941 are very detailed, documenting her teaching in the Newburgh community, personal feelings, and social affairs. The handwritten 1873-1938 "diary" (ca. 42 leaves) as Raaen called it, is more accurately a chronology of her life and of the Raaen family compiled many years later. The family papers include...
Dates:
1798-1957; Majority of material found within 1890-1957
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
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Aagot Raaen Papers
Aagot Raaen Photograph Collection
Collection
Identifier: Photo 527
Abstract
The Aagot Raaen was a Norwegian-American author of the book Grass of the Earth, and the Superintendent of Schools of Steele County, N.D.
Dates:
1870s-1950s
Benjamin H. Barrett Papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss 255
Abstract
Extension agent in Emmons County, N. D. from 1934 to 1959 who wrote about his life as an agent and early farmer.
Dates:
ca. 1950-1976
Family of Christoffer and Anne Rud Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 505
Abstract
Family history of Christoffer and Anne (1821-1893) Rud (spelled Ruud in Norway) whose children emigrated from Aurdal, Valdres, Norway and settled in Zumbrota, Minn., later moving to the Goose River Valley in N.D., and were followed by their parents. Includes mention of life in Norway, settling in Minnesota, meeting relatives and friends who settled in the Goose River Valley, church services in their cabin, marriages of their children, brief mention of snowstorms and prairie fires, and social...
Dates:
1960
Katherine Gumb Papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss 993
Abstract
Iowa native who came to Fargo in 1887 and later became interested in the history of Steele County, N.D.
Dates:
ca. 1928-1941
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
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Katherine Gumb Papers
Nikolai H. Berg Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 880
Overview
This collection contains articles relating to Berg’s pioneering farming in North Dakota, articles written by Nicolai about early days in North Dakota, and a genealogical types report of the Berg family.
Dates:
1934-1935.