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The Search For Homestead Stories

  Date:   Wednesday, March 26, 2008 10:11 AM Subject:   Re: Homesteads   THE RAVEN   is full of homestead stories, but one such issue that comes to mind is one of the most popular issues because it contained two homestead stories, one from Marshall County and one from Roseau County.  Volume 8 Issue 1   From Marshall County comes   The   Martin & Anna Olafson Story , by Steven G. Reynolds   The story is about family whose homestead log cabin stands NW of Grygla, one that I had taken photos of years before we published its story. One of our subscribers told me of someone who would know all about it as the gentleman's wife had been born in that cabin and so could provide much information.    Thinking about that era, I could imagine:      " Wolves howl eerily in the distance. Below the star-studded black sky, wide eyes look nervously about in the immediate darkness of the new land. The cattle's huge nostrils in...