Typed reminiscence of pioneering days in Dickey County, N.D. of the Puffer family, who came to Port Emma Township, Dickey County, N.D. from Wisconsin in 1883. Mentions Ellendale, N.D., a brother M.H. (Myron Henry), various early Dickey County settlers, digging water wells, sod shanty construction, plowing, gathering buffalo bones, polishing buffalo horns to be used as gifts, and source of the name for Hayti, S.D.