Letters to Ida : farm life in the early 1900's /

Letters to Ida : farm life in the early 1900's / compiled by Iris Wilhelm Swenson. - Moorhead, MN : I. Swenson, c1999. - 207 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

"Ida Boettcher married Ed Buchholz in March 1913. About a year later, they moved from the lush Red River Valley to a flat, treeless area of Montana, about twenty miles from Big Sandy. To relieve her loneliness, her mother and sisters wrote frequent detailed, and often humorous letters to her. Ida saved these letters and they have now been compiled in this book"--Back cover. Cover title. Letters written between 1912 and 1915, primarily from Ida's mother Emma Boettcher, and sisters Anna, Ella, and Martha. There are also several from her husband Ed.

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Buchholz, Ida, d. 1984.
Boettcher family--Correspondence.


Farm life--North Dakota--Arthur.
Rural women--North Dakota--Correspondence.


Arthur (N.D.)--Social life and customs.
Big Sandy (Mont.)
North Dakota--Social life and customs.


Letters (Correspondence)

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