Item: Homestead Days, ca. 1959
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Finding Aid Title: Homestead Days, ca. 1959
Finding Aid Collection Number: 0054
Date Range of Collection: ca. 1959
Creator of Materials: Duffield, Jessie Howard, 1874-1964
Content Description: Homestead Days is an eight page typewritten essay by Duffield describing her childhood experiences in South Dakota and her later homesteading experience in Montana. She describes her memories of the great blizzard of 1887-1888 and hardships in keeping the family cabin warm. When she turns her attention to her Montana experiences, Duffield describes farming, community activities, schools, and many local residents, some of which she identifies in a poem about a local dance held at Fertile Prairie on Halloween, 1914. The typescript has been corrected with pencil marginalia.
Finding Aid URL: http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv76708/
Keywords: agriculture and ranching, reminiscences, essays, homesteading, jessie duffield, jessie howard duffield
Subjects: Montana Agriculture and Ranching
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