Miles Nelson reminiscences, 1961.

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Miles Nelson reminiscences, 1961.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122569405

Typescript reminiscences (1800s-1950) of this early settler in northern Minnesota. The memoirs recount Miles Nelson's youth on homesteads in Wisconsin, Kansas, and Georgia; his work in lumber and mining camps in Itasca and St. Louis counties during the early 1900s; his work as a chef for the Northern Pacific Railway; his homesteading experiences and participation in the establishment (1906) and development of Bearville Township (Itasca Co.), Minnesota; and trips he later took with his wife throughout the U.S. (1930 and 1950).

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Minnesota Historical Society, Division of Archives and Manuscripts

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