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Minnie Haukaas memoir, 1982
- Title
- Minnie Haukaas memoir, 1982
- Identifier
- P1599
- Date
- 1982
- Description
- Draft (edited by her son, Rich Nelson of the University of Puget Sound) of her memoir. Places are left for photographs to be included in final version. Minnie was born at Aneta, North Dakota to immigrant parents. Memories of growing up in western North Dakota, (Golva, N.D.), until her marriage to Carl Hjalmer Nelson in 1922. "Essentially this is Mom's Story which she wrote in the late sixties" ed. by Rich Nelson.
"Minnie, a North Dakota homestead girl, part I; Minnie Haukaas, her own story." 48 p. 1982. Topics addressed: Promise of America (p.7); Sorrow about leaving (p.)9; Immigrant voyage (p.11); Soliciting sweetheart to come to America (p.15); Farming (p.17); Winter (p.19;) Well (p.21); Baking (p.23); Christmas gifts (p.25); Sears Roebuck (p.25); Voyage back to Norway (p.26); Visiting family (p.27); Forest (p.28); Inheritance (p.28-29); Rosemaling (p.29); Funeral (p.30); Crop payments (p.30-31) Draft (p.31,34); Babies (p.32); Infant mortality (p.32); Sweetheart (p.35); Marriage proposal (p.36,39); Regret (p.37); Romance (p.38); Permission to marry (p.40); North Pacific Railroad (p.39,42); Railroad Strike of 1922 (p.41, 43); Happiness (p.43); Bears (p.45); Jesus (p.47). - Location: 13/B/1
- Extent
- 1 folder
- Type
- Manuscripts
Collection
Citation
Haukaas, Minnie Karolina, 1905-1984, “Minnie Haukaas memoir, 1982,” Norwegian American Historical Association, accessed October 17, 2026, https://norwegianamericanhistory.org/catalog/items/show/10885.