Pearl Sparks Unglesbee Danniel Papers 1885-1975

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Pearl Sparks Unglesbee Danniel Papers 1885-1975

Pearl Danniel (1885-1975) was a homesteader in the Rock Creek area of McCone County, Montana, and a prolific writer. Collection consists primarily of her autobiographical, semi-autobiographical, fiction, poetry, essays, and political writings on a wide variety of topics including homesteading, Fort Peck Dam, the need for rural roads, political waste, and her anti-war sentiments.

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Danniel, Pearl, 1885-1975

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Pearl Sparks was born on a sharecropper farm either in the Mississippi River bottoms near Hannibal, Missouri, or near Kingston, Illinois, (her autobiographies differ) on February 15, 1885. On her 19th birthday she married Clarence Unglesbee at Quincy, Illinois, where her daughters Nell and Pansy and her son Rueben were born. Reuben died in early childhood. During the early years of their marriage, Clarence and Pearl worked on a farm in the Mississippi River bottoms, and worked in factories in Qu...