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Rural children playing "Cut the Pie," Morton County, North Dakota, 1942. WPA photo. Reprinted with permission of University of North Dakota Libraries, OGL 264-54.
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Settlers' Children
Growing Up on the Great Plains
By Elizabeth Hampsten
University of Oklahoma Press : Norman and London
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Publication of this book is made possible, in part, through the generous support of The McCasland Foundation, Duncan, Oklahoma.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Hampsten, Elizabeth, 1932 Settlers' children : growing up on the Great Plains / by Elizabeth Hampsten.1st ed. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 247) and index. ISBN 0-8061-2342-7 1. ChildrenNorth DakotaHistory. 2. Rural children North DakotaHistory. 3. Child laborNorth Dakota History. 4. Frontier and pioneer lifeNorth Dakota. I. Title. HQ792.U5H26 1991 305.2309784-dc20 90-50689
The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources, Inc.
Copyright 1991 by the University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Publishing Division of the University. All rights reserved. Manufactured in the U.S.A. First edition.
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To the North Dakota Coalition of Abused Women's Services and Bonnie Palecek, its founding leader.
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Contents
Preface
page ix
1. Westward "for the Children"
3
2. Children at Work
13
3. Schooling Mostly Meant Doing Without
35
4. Children in Danger: "It Seemed As If All Fun Was Taken Out of Life"
63
5. "Though I Am Young, a Little One": Parents' Preoccupation with Their Children
95
6. Happy Childhoods
131
7. Martha and Ole Lima
165
8. Over Fool's Hill: Children in Three Families
193
9. Children of the Middle Border
227
Notes
241
Selected Bibliography
247
Index
249
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Preface
This book owes its beginnings to the many people in North Dakota who wanted to tell me of their childhoods and persuaded me, as soon as I began to listen, that they were reciting more than anecdotes. For a number of years I had been reading letters and diaries of North Dakota settlers. No sooner had I begun looking in such obvious places as the state library manuscript collections than people began telling me of people they knew who kept letters, or they would bring me papers from their own families. Before long I found myself speaking about these writings to audiences around the state at events sponsored by the state Humanities Council, library boards, or civic organizations. We met in auditoriums, church basements, store fronts, living rooms, and back rooms of cafs, and I would not necessarily be the one doing the most talking. Invariably the testimonies of ordinary lives I was bringing provoked more. People wanted to talk, and what they told almost always included stories of childhoods. It is the urgency with which such stories were told that drew my attention, an urgency that I think comes from several desires, some possibly contradictory.
These are "good stories"exciting or funny or sad, but invariably moving. They are stories important to the tellers, who don't want them lost, perhaps hoping that one more telling will prevent that loss. But they were being told, it sometimes seemed to me, with feelings of anger and rejection, and no wonder: who in their right mind would want
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to endure so much hardship again, let alone put children through such brutality? This was the puzzle for me, the seeming contradiction between hallowing events whose details more often than not were harsh, ugly, and destructive. How were people viewing their past, I wondered, what did they make of it, and how had they transformed that past into the rest of their lives?
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