She drove a team 62 miles for supplies.

Anna Chermak-Swanson
Slope 1910
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Anna was a skilled seamstress. She came to North Dakota from Minneapolis with a friend who owned a sewing shop there. While their shacks were being built, they lived in a tent and carried water from a nearby creek. Later a hand-dug well provided water.

(Courtesy: Ruth Hinkley, Bowman)

Julia Pettingill
Sadie Pettingill
Mountrail 1905
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Julia (holding the horse) and her daughter, Sadie (at the washtub), filed on adjoining claims. Sadie's shack (pictured here) doubled as the Amanda Post Office, and she also taught school. Julia ran the Amanda store from her two-room shack nearby. She would drive a team of horses 62 miles to Minot to buy supplies. On the day this picture was taken, Gus Sather and Martha Larson were paying a visit.

(Courtesy: Mrs. John Holbach, Minot)

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