"Homestead Days" circa 1959

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"Homestead Days" circa 1959

http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv76708

"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.

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MSU-Bozeman Library, Merrill G Burlingame Special Collections

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Duffield, Jessie Howard, 1874-1964

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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 ranch while also attending school. She married Sam Duffield in Amboy, Minnesota in 1896, but when her parents and siblings decided to move to eastern Montana to again establish homestead claims in 1910, Jessie and Sam accompanied them. The extended family filed on several tracts in the Fertile Prairie area of...

Howard family

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