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Wilkin County (Minn.)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

David McCauley Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 329
Abstract Postmaster, express agent and army sutler for Fort Abercrombie.
Dates: 1845-1955

Sod House Days in the Red River Valley Records

 Collection
Identifier: SC 1058
Abstract Typed reminiscence (19 leaves) on his pioneer Norwegian immigrant parents, Andrew and Christine Overby, who settled in Wilkin County, Minn. in 1890. Includes mention of digging water wells, plowing with oxen, description of a sod house, David McCauley and McCauleyville, Minn., road construction, peddlers, threshing, butchering, stage coaches, passenger and freight traffic on the Red River, expansion of the railroad, blizzards and weather during the 1896-1897 winter, and the naming of Wilkin...
Dates: Majority of material found within [196-].