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TasunkaWitko
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Posted: 04 April 2007 at 10:32 |
This letter
about the history of Killdeer, North Dakota, and of his family there, was
written by Richard F. David, to the editor of the Killdeer Herald.
It was dated April 25, 1983, a little over two months before his death
on July 2, 1983. With the omission of one or two minor typographical
errors, it is reproduced below just as he wrote it. On a recent trip to North Dakota I stopped overnight at Killdeer and renewed old acquaintances there. Because it was Saturday evening I could not contact your office. Several of the people with whom I visited (Jack Fettig, Mr. Stroh, Theresia Essert of Dickinson and others) talked of the forthcoming Dunn County 75th anniversary and suggested the Herald might be interested in my recollections of the early 1900s. Please feel free to use any part of the following: I was born in
Killdeer 64 years ago, in Dr. Oscar Smith's hospital (later the Suckstorf
house, next to my Grandma David's). My parents, Fred and Pearl (Smith)
David, both came to Dunn County in 1909.
-- Apparent end of Richard F. David's narrative about his family and Killdeer -- I grew up in Killdeer, and worked at the Killdeer Herald for Nace Doherty, first as a devil and later as a linotype operator after going to school at Wahpeton Science. My wife Ann and I met and were married in Dickinson, where we both worked at the Dickinson Press, I in the composing room and she in the editorial department. We have had our own papers in Kerkhoven, Minn.; Eldon, Iowa; Buckeye and Gila Bend, Arizona; and have now retired as publisher and editor of the Ajo Copper News in southern Arizona. Two of our three children are now running the Copper News, and another is studying at the University of Arizona. Ajo is a copper mining town, just now starting to pull out of the "recession." It is a quiet and friendly town, and is a refreshing green spot in the miles of desert that surround it. We are forty miles north of the Mexican border, 120 miles west of Tucson. Two men seated on metal bucket and stool each milking a cow. Taken in pasture surrounded by fence and trees. Several people standing by fence. Oakdale, North Dakota - 1926. Edited by TasunkaWitko |
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TasunkaWitko - Chinook, Montana
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TasunkaWitko
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Historic photo of the Killdeer mountain roundup
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TasunkaWitko - Chinook, Montana
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BEAR
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about 20 years ago, I hunted that area. Seem to remember an area called Black Butte"?
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TasunkaWitko
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It's very possible, Bear - the only butte I know for sure is a Crosby Butte, which came into play during the Battle at Killdeer Mountain.
My aunt who lives in Keene, North Dakota, paints pictures of wildlife and landscapes, and I am sure that I remember her painting a scene with deer that had Black Butte in the title, so you could very well be remembering correctly.
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TasunkaWitko - Chinook, Montana
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BEAR
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Actually I was staying in a ranch house near Keene. Hunting PDs.
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TasunkaWitko
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If their name was Brown, I am probably related. My cousin, Jimmy Brown, runs an outfit called Cherry Creek Outfitters.
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