Blizzards -- North Dakota.
Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 19 Collections and/or Records:
Page Family Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 677
Abstract
History of four Page brothers and their sister Margaret A. Page who emigrated from their parental home near Girard, Illinois to North Dakota and filed on government homesteads between Mar[c]h 1888 and 1904.
Dates:
1928, 1952-1957.
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
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Page Family Collection
Peter J. Smith Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 1723
Abstract
Letters, typed copy of his family reminiscence entitled "Dakota days of years ago," (38 leaves) and a newspaper clipping. Reminiscence includes mention of his family homestead in Cavalier County, a blizzard, pioneer days near Pembina, N.D., people and equipment involved in threshing, digging water wells, Olga, Bathgate, Beaulieu, and Walhalla, N.D., country school, churches, hunting, horses and horse-drawn vehicles, and removing tree stumps.
Dates:
1950-1965.
Pratt Family Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 608
Abstract
Two interviews concerning the Pratt family. First interview (9 leaves) with R.W. (Robert Wesley) Pratt and his wife, Anne (Margach) Pratt, concerns George and Mathilda (Dempsey) Pratt moving to N.D. in 1880 from Ontario, George's brothers, James, WIlliam, and R.J., who moved to N.D., difficulties in plowing, W.J. Pratt and his wife, Dr. Charlotte Campbell, George Pratt's gift of property to his four children, James Pratt selling his business to L.J. (Lewis) Margach, mention of General Thomas M....
Dates:
1924, 1956-1957.
Ralph D. Ward Papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss 354
Abstract
Mr. Ward was a North Dakota rancher and banker. The collection contains correspondence dealing chiefly with farming, ranching, legal and financial matters, land transactions, politics and banking; and biographical stories by his uncle Henry Ward, about pioneer life in in Dakota Territory to include Black Hills gold mining, 1881 Mandan flood, life in Owego colony in 1873, and hauling freight in a blizzard. There is also clippings and articles on Ward's father-in-law, Reuben N. Stevens, and the...
Dates:
1875-1960.
Found in:
Institute for Regional Studies
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Ralph D. Ward Papers
Reminiscences of the Early Eighties in Dakota
Collection
Identifier: SC 718
Abstract
Typed reminiscences concerning her parents, Daniel and Cynthia Folger, who moved to Niagara, N.D. from Lockport, N.Y. Includes mention of native flowers and wildlife, early crops, blizzards, her father's trips to Larimore, N.D. for supplies, the death of Chris Severson, a neighbor, a picnic on July 4, 1882 at Bachelor's Grove, 1883 New Year's Eve party, the first school teacher, Cella Rossiter, and the 1885 wheat harvest. Note: this writing may be one of fiction.
Dates:
1900.
Sadie Walker Collection of Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 173
Abstract
Correspondence, typed summary of interview (12 leaves) with Leonard Sackett concerning her father, George Elliot, and life in early Jamestown. Includes mention of George Elliott coming to N.D. in 1879, the family's arrival in 1880, getting a contract to build railroad grade, buying a farm near Spiritwood, N.D., blizzards, the homesickness of Sadie's mother, description of their home, her father's attempts at gardening, digging a well, entertaining visitors, their move to Jamestown, N.D. where...
Dates:
1941, 1950, 1954, 1965.
The Early History of Mohall, North Dakota
Collection
Identifier: SC 598
Abstract
Photocopy of her typed history of Mohall, N.D. founded in 1901 by M.O. Hall, in Renville County. The four chapters are: 1. "Physiography of the Mouse River Loop, North Dakota," 2. "The founding of Mohall," 3. "The coming of the railroad," and 4. "The reorganization of Renville County." The history generally covers through 1903 except the county reorganization which goes to 1910. Chapters include a description of the area, and mention blizzards, floods and the effect on travel from Minot, N.D.,...
Dates:
[1923?]
Torkel Fuglestad Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC-307
Overview
Contains a manuscript most likely writen by Fugelstad, an edited copy, an newspaper clippings.
Dates:
1950-1956
Women's Literary Club of Carrington Records
Collection
Identifier: MSS 182
Abstract
The club was organized by a group of pioneer women in Carrington, N.D. as a study club with regular courses in literature and history.
Dates:
1897-1925, 1954.