Warner Johnson Letters 1889-1892

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Warner Johnson Letters 1889-1892

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The Warner Johnson Letters consist of love letters exchanged between Johnson and Nettie Friebelman from April 1, 1889 to November 30, 1892. Warner's letters describe making and selling butter, raising chickens, selling hay as income, and the weather. The letters also describe his conflicting plans of moving back to Missouri or buying more stock for his own homestead which he located on Willow Creek outside of Belt. Nettie's letters pertain mostly to neighborhood news and her routine activities in Dent County, along with a continuing expression of reluctance to leave her family to join Warner in Montana. There are also a few letters from friends of both that reflect the fluctuations of the courtship.

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MSU-Bozeman Library, Merrill G Burlingame Special Collections

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Johnson, Nettie Friebelman, 1869-

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Johnson, Warner, 1866-1917

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Warner Johnson was born in 1866 in Tennessee. His father, William Franklin Johnson, moved the family to Dent County, Mo., in 1869. Nettie Friebelman was born in 1869, probably in Dent County, Mo. In 1882 the Johnson family left Missouri for Montana, going up the Missouri to Fort Benton by steamboat, where Warner's father first worked on a dairy farm. Soon after, he staked a homestead claim on land outside Highwood, Mont. At the time the letters in this collection were written, Warner was twenty-...