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Guide to the Homestead Days circa 1959

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Title Guide to the Homestead Days circa 1959
Subject Agriculture-Montana-Fallon County; Blizzards-South Dakota-Turner County; Community life-Montana-Fallon County; Frontier and pioneer life-Montana-Fallon
County; Frontier and pioneer life-South Dakota-Turner
County; Girls-South Dakota-Turner
County-Biography; Pioneer children-South Dakota-Turner
County-Biography; Schools-Montana-Fallon County; Children and
Youth; City and Town
Life; Environmental
Conditions; Home and
Family; Pioneers; Women; Montana
Description Homestead Days is a typewritten essay by Duffield describing her childhood experiences in South Dakota and her later homesteading experience in Montana. Duffield describes the blizzard of 1887-1888, farming, community activities, schools, and many local residents.; Biographical Note; Jessie Howard Duffield was born on December 14, 1874 in Red Oak, Iowa. Her parents moved to a homestead claim near Parker, South Dakota in 1882, and Jessie worked on the family...
Publisher Montana State University-Bozeman Library
Date 1959
Rights This collection is open for research.
Type Collection collection
Identifier http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv76708
Language eng
Format 1 item
Coverage circa 1959

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