This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ZGB.2ACE/283.2.1.2.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Sure enough! There are many pioneers mentioned in this book but no index. In the Preface, she describes the Bigfork River Valley and the last homesteaders who arrived there. "Nels Felstet sits under his few remaining pines, imagining himself back in the days of their first glory. The first chapter tells of him: "The pines hovered invitingly, their highest tops stretching up to reach above the green world of pine and fir below. Now a white man's foot was stumbling over it for perhaps the first time. The intruder was Nels Felstet, young and strong, with packsack on his back, gun in one hand, an axe and lantern in the other. Nels stopped. . . . . . The whole first chapter is about him. I'll copy it for you if you send me (E-mail [email protected]) your snail address. I just returned from San Francisco where I visited my cousin's daughter from Texas and promised her I would send her this book. It belonged to her grandmother. Depending on how much you're interest! ed in the Bigfork Valley, I could copy the whole book for you.(160 pages) Signe
Signe, I was born in the Bigfork Valley and graduated high school in the valley. I would very much appreciate it if you would copy the whole book for me. I will be happy to pay you the cost and for mailing to me. Let me know if you can, and how much and I will send you some money and my address. My mother is in the nursing home in Bigfork MN and I go up there fairly often. I knew Brigit Anderson and her sister, who I can't remember the name of right now (old age, I guess). Brigit went to our church when she visited and she belonged to the "old timers" club and so did my grandparents. My grandfather was one of the fairly early loggers. Gayle ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, April 03, 2005 7:13 PM Subject: [MNITASCA] Re: Bergit I. Anderson, "The Last Frontier" > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ZGB.2ACE/283.2.1.2.1.1.1 > > Message Board Post: > > Sure enough! There are many pioneers mentioned in this book but no index. In the Preface, she describes the Bigfork River Valley and the last homesteaders who arrived there. "Nels Felstet sits under his few remaining pines, imagining himself back in the days of their first glory. The first chapter tells of him: "The pines hovered invitingly, their highest tops stretching up to reach above the green world of pine and fir below. Now a white man's foot was stumbling over it for perhaps the first time. The intruder was Nels Felstet, young and strong, with packsack on his back, gun in one hand, an axe and lantern in the other. Nels stopped. . . . . . The whole first chapter is about him. I'll copy it for you if you send me (E-mail [email protected]) your snail address. I just returned from San Francisco where I visited my cousin's daughter from Texas and promised her I would send her this book. It belonged to her grandmother. Depending on how much you're interest! > ed in the Bigfork Valley, I could copy the whole book for you.(160 pages) > Signe > > > ==== MNITASCA Mailing List ==== > Visit the Itasca County MNGenWeb project at http://www.rootsweb.com/~mnitasca/ . > > ============================== > Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the > last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx > >