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SHS Lee Mohr Photograph Collection - Outdoor Camp Undated
SHS Lee Mohr Photograph Collection - Outdoor Camp Undated
1900 - SHS B - B Collection - Homesteading in North Dakota
1900 - SHS B - B Collection - Homesteading in North Dakota
 1880 - Roy Johnson and Louis Pfaller Collection - Tipi circa 1880 - Frank Jay Creator
1880 - Roy Johnson and Louis Pfaller Collection - Tipi circa 1880 - Frank Jay Creator
1885 - SHS C - C Collection - Chief Rain-in-the-Face and wife
1885 - SHS C - C Collection - Chief Rain-in-the-Face and wife
1900 - Pierce County Tribune Records - Unidentified family outside farm house
1900 - Pierce County Tribune Records - Unidentified family outside farm house
1900 - SHS A - A Collection -  A stone house
1900 - SHS A - A Collection - A stone house
1900 - SHS B - B Collection - Sod house showing vegetation on roof
1900 - SHS B - B Collection - Sod house showing vegetation on roof
1900 - SHS B - B Collection - Sod house kitchen
1900 - SHS B - B Collection - Sod house kitchen
1905 - Cora Newman homestead house
1905 - Cora Newman homestead house
1910 - SHS A-A Collection - Sod house with glass windows and frame lean-to
1910 - SHS A-A Collection - Sod house with glass windows and frame lean-to
1911 - Frank Bennett Fiske Tipis near water
1911 - Frank Bennett Fiske Tipis near water
Stroud - The white house at Stroud
Stroud - The white house at Stroud
Family in front of a house on a corner
Family in front of a house on a corner
1913 - SHS 50 Years in the Saddle Club Collection - Log house built in 1913 by Sigrud and Olaf Engvold
1913 - SHS 50 Years in the Saddle Club Collection - Log house built in 1913 by Sigrud and Olaf Engvold
1920 - SHS Will Family Papers - Arikara woman drying corn on the top of her house
1920 - SHS Will Family Papers - Arikara woman drying corn on the top of her house
SHS Agnes Fisher Photograph Collection - Three men in a Ford automobile with three women and a child on a horse in front of a sod house
SHS Agnes Fisher Photograph Collection - Three men in a Ford automobile with three women and a child on a horse in front of a sod house
Mrs. Walter Bailey Sr., and Rena and Fred at their homestead
Mrs. Walter Bailey Sr., and Rena and Fred at their homestead
SHS - Walker Hamilton house
SHS - Walker Hamilton house
Man in a car in front of a house
Man in a car in front of a house
1920 - Irene Louise Carlson Papers - Exterior of unidentified house, Dad’s house
1920 - Irene Louise Carlson Papers - Exterior of unidentified house, Dad’s house
1925 - SHS - Hattie (Heichel) Ackerman Betty with two boys, cat, dog and toys in front of house (the boy on the left is probably Garnes)
1925 - SHS - Hattie (Heichel) Ackerman Betty with two boys, cat, dog and toys in front of house (the boy on the left is probably Garnes)
SHS Gudmundur Grimson Papers - unidentified family
SHS Gudmundur Grimson Papers - unidentified family
SHS Gudmundur Grimson Papers - Wm Laurany farm house
SHS Gudmundur Grimson Papers - Wm Laurany farm house
SHS 50 Years in the Saddle Club Collection- Two-story sod house
SHS 50 Years in the Saddle Club Collection- Two-story sod house
People outside two story wood frame house
People outside two story wood frame house
One of the residential streets taken from corner where I lived, Trees are box elders (ash leaf maples) set out in front of the houses - Karen Perry
One of the residential streets taken from corner where I lived, Trees are box elders (ash leaf maples) set out in front of the houses - Karen Perry

"In total 118,472 homesteads were proved up in North Dakota. The total acreage of homesteaded land was 17,417,466 which is 39% of the land in the state." - National Park Service

“First People.” State Historical Society of North Dakota, n.d., https://www.history.nd.gov/ndhistory/firstpeople.html.

"Section 4: Homes.” North Dakota Studies, State Historical Society of North Dakota, n.d., https://www.ndstudies.gov/gr4/early-settlement-north-dakota/part-3-north-dakota-pioneers/section-4-homes.

Hudson, John. Frontier Housing in North Dakota. State Historical Society of North Dakota, 1975 PDF.

Farms in North Dakota: A Historic Context. State Historical Society of North Dakota, 2014. PDF.

“Section 5: Homestead Farms.” North Dakota Studies, State Historical Society of North Dakota, n.d., https://www.ndstudies.gov/gr8/content/unit-iii-waves-development-1861-1920/lesson-2-making-living/topic-3-farming/section-5-homestead-farms.

“Section 2: Homestead Act of 1862.” North Dakota Studies, State Historical Society of North Dakota, n.d., https://www.ndstudies.gov/gr8/content/unit-iii-waves-development-1861-1920/lesson-2-making-living/topic-4-federal-legislation/section-2-homestead-act-1862

Nonpartisan League’s Home Building Association Resources in North Dakota. U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, n.d. PDF.

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