Warner Johnson letters, 1889-1892.

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Warner Johnson letters, 1889-1892.

Love letters (1889-1892) written by Warner Johnson while living at Highwood and Belt, Mont., and written by Nettie Friebelman while living at Barney, Dent County, Mo.

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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-...