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Homesteading in the Badlands and Interior, South Dakota
This blog is based on a transcript of an interview by University of South Dakota Professor Stephen Ward and John Stockert (Naturalist and Executive Secretary of the Badlands Natural History Association) on August 5, 1970, as part of the South Dakota Oral History Project (SDOHP #0068). Ward and Stockert interviewed John and Celia Everett who were early homesteaders in Jackson County, South Dakota. The couple married in Spencer, Iowa in 1910 and then moved to the Badlands short
Evelyn Schlenker
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