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Old Rail Fence Corners

Old Rail Fence Corners is an historical treasure trove containing the stories of the first significant waves of European-American settlers in the now state of Minnesota (United States of America). This book has direct accounts of mid-19th century lives and experiences on the frontier, recounted by the frontiersmen and women when many of them were in their mid-90s. A group of volunteer women -- the Book Committee -- sought to record these recollections before they were lost with the passing of these remarkable adventurers. Experience a wild, dangerous Minnesota full of mosquitoes, threatening wildlife, difficult roads, dirt floors, food scarcity, and Native American neighbors. Interactions with Native Americans are a major theme throughout the book; settlers relate their experiences in the 1862 U.S.-Dakota War, their outsider accounts of interactions between Minnesota's Native American tribes, and the settlers' impressions of the Native American inhabitants with whom they share the land, which range from outright fear to acceptance to friendship and respect. Listen to the amazing stories of the Minnesota settlers as they come back to life through the voices of our talented readers! These are the stories of Minnesota's adventurous, resourceful, and brave pioneers that you won't soon forget. - Summary by Jill Engle

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Explanatory; The Book Committee; The Reason (Jill Engle)
Mr. Eli Pettijohn (Phil Schempf)
Mrs. Missouri Rose Pratt (Denise Nordell)
Mrs. Gideon Pond; Captain Stephen Hanks (Lynne T)
Mr. Caleb Dorr; Mrs. Mahlon Black (Phil Schempf)
Mr. James McMullen (Phil Schempf)
Mrs. James McMullen; Dr. Lysander P. Foster; Mrs. Silas Farnham (Phil Schempf)
General William G. Le Duc (Phil Schempf)
Mr. Reuben Robinson; Mrs. Samuel B. Dresser; Mrs. Rufus Farnham; Captain John Van der Horck (Phil Schempf)
Mrs. James Pratt (Lucretia B.)
Mrs. Mary Harrison (Denise Nordell)
Mr. William W. Ellison (Phil Schempf)
Mr. D. E. Dow; Mrs. Elizabeth Clifford; Mrs. Richard Chute (ReadAllDay)
Mr. Charles Bohanon; Mr. Austin W. Farnsworth (Phil Schempf)
Mr. Elijah Nutting; Mr. Charles Rye; Mr. James M. Gillespie; Miss Nancy Gillespie; Mr. Isaac Layman (Phil Schempf)
Mrs. Mary Weeks; Mrs. E. A. Merrill; Mrs. Martha Thorne (Lynne T)
Mrs. Nancy Lowell; Mrs. William Dow (Jill Engle)
Mrs. William J. White (Andrea Kotzer)
Mrs. Paulina Starkloff; Mrs. Anna E. Balser; Mrs. Mary E. Dowling; Mrs. Robert Anderson (Andrea Kotzer)
Mrs. Wilder; Mr. Warren Wakefield (Greg Giordano)
Mrs. Leroy Sampson; Mrs. Anna Simmons Apgar; Mrs. Newman Woods; Mr. Chester L. Hopkins (ReadAllDay)
Miss Florinda Hopkins; Mrs. J. W. Ladd; Mrs. C. H. Pettit; Mrs. Anna Hennes Huston; Mr. Henry Favel; Mrs. Rebecca Plummer; Mrs. C. A. Burdick; Mr. Peter Cooper (Greg Giordano)
Mr. Stephen Rochette; Mrs. Stephen Rochette; Mrs. James A. Winter; Mrs. George E. Fisher; Lieut. Governor Gilman; Mrs. Austin W. Farnsworth (Greg Giordano)
Mr. Theodore Curtis; Mrs. Charles M. Godley; Mr. Frank Slocum (Lynne T)
Mrs. T. B. Walker; Mrs. Virginia Jones; Mrs. Georgiana M. Way (Greg Giordano)
Mrs. Duncan Kennedy (Greg Giordano)
Major S. A. Buell (Greg Giordano)
Mrs. Jane Sutherland; Mrs. Mary Robinson (Andrea Kotzer)
Mrs. Margaret A. Snyder; Mrs. Helen Horton; Mrs. Mary Staring Smith (Andrea Kotzer)
Mrs. Mary Massolt; Mrs. Anna Todd; Mr. Edwin Clarke; Captain Isaac Moulton (Greg Giordano)
Mr. George A. Brackett; Mrs. C. A. Smith; Major C. B. Heffelfinger; Mrs. Martha Gilpatrick (Lynne T)
Mrs. Margaret Hern (Denise Nordell)
Mrs. Mary Ingenhutt; Captain L. L. McCormack; Mr. Charles M. Loring; Dr. Stewart (Lynne T)
Mrs. J. M. Paine; Miss Minnesota Neill; Mr. L. L. Lapham (Natalya)
Mrs. Margaret Rathbun Funk (ReadAllDay)
Mrs. Mary Pitcher (Kimberly Krause)
Mrs. J. R. Beatty; Mrs. A. M. Pfeffer (Careyanne04)
Mr. I. A. Pelton; Mr. John A. Jones (Phil Schempf)
Mrs. Clark Keysor; Judge Lorin Cray (Greg Giordano)
Captain Clark Keysor (Greg Giordano)
Miss Carrie Stratton; Mr. Irving A. Dunsmoor (Greg Giordano)
Mrs. Mary Pribble; Mrs. Edmund Kimball (Natalya)
Mr. Frank G. O'Brien; Mr. Michael Teeter (Paul Simonin)
Mrs. W. L. Niemann (Greg Giordano)
Ex-Governor Samuel R. Van Sant (Greg Giordano)
Mrs. Delilah Maxwell (ReadAllDay)
Mr. B. F. Shaver (Phil Schempf)
Colonel A. P. Connolly (Doug Sheppard)
Colonel Levi Longfellow (Greg Giordano)
Mrs. Helen Godfrey Berry (ReadAllDay)
Abner Crossman Godfrey; Major Benjamin Randall; Miss Sara Faribault (Greg Giordano)
Mary Sherrard Phillips (Greg Giordano)
Mr. H. L. Buck; Mrs. Harriet Gleason; Mrs. Bradey (Greg Giordano)
Mr. Oliver K. Jones (Marty)
Mrs. Arabella Merrit (Andrea Kotzer)
Mrs. Gideon Pond (TriciaG)
Mrs. E. R. Pond; Mrs. John Brown (Greg Giordano)
Marion L. Dibble; Mr. M. G. Cobb (Greg Giordano)
Mr. M. R. Van Schaick; Mrs. Conrad Magnus; Mrs. Orin Pike (Greg Giordano)
Judge Lorin Cray (Doug Sheppard)
Mrs. Mary E. Partridge (Greg Giordano)
Judge Loren W. Collins (SteveToner)
Mr. Elijah G. Nutting; Mr. J. Warren Richardson; Mrs. Henry C. Prescott (Jill Engle)
Judge Thomas S. Buckham; Mrs. Rodney A. Mott; Mrs. Kate Davis Batchelder; Mrs. John C. Turner (Jill Engle)
Mr. C. H. Watson; Mrs. Augusta Prehn Bierman; Mrs. Ann Alexander; Mr. J. W. Huckins; Mrs. C. W. Gress (Phil Schempf)
Mr. Alvin M. Olin; Mrs. Pauline Hagen; Mrs. Catherine Meade (Greg Giordano)
Mr. Glass; Mr. John W. Goulding; Mrs. Colbrath (Phil Schempf)
Mrs. Mary B. Aiton; Dr. A. C. Daniels; Mr. Z. S. Gault; Mr. J. C. Bryant; Mrs. Nancy Kiethey Bean; Mrs. Mary Davis Fenton (Phil Schempf)
Mrs. Frederick Penny; Mr. James Clark (Phil Schempf)
Mrs. Nettleton; Mrs. W. S. Woodbridge; Mrs. Martin Jay Clum; Mr. August Larpenteur (Phil Schempf)
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