Pioneer Life
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 26 Collections and/or Records:
Mrs. Hans Mollerud Papers
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: OGLMC-758
Scope and Contents
The Mrs. Hans Mollerud Papers consist of photocopies of a handwritten autobiographical sketch written in 1952. The sketch concerns the Mollerud and Paulsness family histories, detailing Mrs. Mollerud's recollections of farming, social and church activities, and neighbors in Goodhue County, Minnesota, Grafton, North Dakota, and Hanley, Saskatchewan. Of particular interest are her memories of the epidemic of scarlet fever which struck Grafton in the summer of 1904. The original is preserved at...
Dates:
created: 1952; Other: Date acquired: 04/00/1982
Oscar Lewis Papers
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: OGLMC-1580
Scope and Contents
This collection contains correspondence between Oscar Lewis and his family in Tioga County, Pennsylvania. The letters are primarily to his wife Ida and detail the difficulties Lewis faced while living in North Dakota. Among the letters is one incorrectly dated September 38, 1889, describing the lynching of a man named Will Lycan. The proported lynching happened after Lycan supposedly burned down his employer's barn. Lewis's narrative of the event, and the event itself, is called into...
Dates:
created: 1847-1899; Other: Majority of material found in 1889-1891; Other: Date acquired: 06/13/2010
Pembina County Pioneer Daughters Records
Collection
Identifier: OGLMC-1210
Scope and Contents
The Pembina County Pioneer Daughters Records contain materials that describe the history of early Pembina County settlers and the development of local communities. Covering wide-ranging topics, this collection includes personal histories, eyewitness accounts, letters, community and organizational histories, and newspaper clippings.
The collection is divided into three series:
Series 1: Biographical Sketches of Pioneer Mothers and Fathers
Series 2: Histories of Towns, Churches, and...
Dates:
Other: Date acquired: 07/12/1990
Prairie Memory Score
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: OGLMC-332
Scope and Contents
Prairie Memory was a symphony composed by Dale Christenson of Grand Forks in 1975. The symphony was set in rural North Dakota during pioneer days.
Dates:
Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1979
Sarah Reid Papers
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: OGLMC-428
Abstract
1843-1902; 16 page autobiography tracing her life from birth in England until her death in Dickinson
Dates:
created: undated; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1977
Tarkel Danielson Ose Papers
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: OGLMC-1557
Abstract
Norwegian immigrant to Polk County, Minnesota
Dates:
created: 1875-1922; Other: Date acquired: 09/02/2009