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Rare book has brands of Dakota Territory historical figures By ELOISE OGDEN
Regional Editor eogden@minotdailynews.com
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Mark Halvorson is curator of collections research at the State Historical Society of North Dakota located in the North Dakota Heritage Center and State Museum.
BISMARCK – A rare book at the North Dakota Heritage Center and State Museum in Bismarck contains the brands of historical figures of Dakota Territory. Mark Halvorson, curator of collections research for the State Historical Society of North Dakota, the agency that preserves and presents history through museums and historic sites in the state of North Dakota, said the oldest brand book at the Bismarck facility, the “Brand Book of the Montana Stock Growers Association for 1885-86,” contains brands of the Marquis de Mores and others who settled in what was then Dakota Territory in the 1800s. Halvorson said that the brand book is not on display but the front cover and pages have been digitized. “It’s a rare book,” he said. Besides the Marquis de Mores, who founded the town of Medora in the early 1880s, the brand book includes brands of Teddy Roosevelt, an 1880s rancher who became president of the United States, and A.C. Huidekooper, another 1880s rancher who started what would become the biggest horse ranch. “Who was the most famous rancher from that day who has a town named after him which is still booming” asked Halvorson during a visit with him this past fall. “Pierre Wibaux,” he replied. Wibaux’s brands are also in the 1885-86 publication. The city of Wibaux, earlier named Keith, Beaver and Mingusville, is just See BRANDING — Page 4
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This is the cover of the “Brand Book of the Montana Stock Growers Association for 1885-86,” a rare book at the North Dakota Heritage Center and State Museum in Bismarck. The book contains brands of historical figures of Dakota Territory.
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across the North Dakota border in Montana. By mid-1890s, Wibaux’s ranch was one of the largest cattle operations in the nation. The oldest brand book at the North Dakota Stockmen’s Association based in Bismarck, is the 1892 North Dakota Stock Growers Association book. Roosevelt’s brands can also be found in the 1892 and 1902 brand books, according to Rachael Preusse, NDSA brand recorder. She said other early day brands in the 1892 book include the Connolly Brothers of Oakdale, S.M. Ferris of Medora, Long X owned by the Reynolds Brothers and the AHA owned by Converse & Son. Brand recording started in Dakota Territory more than 150 years ago. In 1862 the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Dakota passed an act making it the duty of the register of deeds of each county to record a description of the marks or brands persons chose to mark their horses, cattle, sheep or hogs, according to the 1986 Brand Book. Later legislation called for the county clerk of each county to record brands later that was changed to the commissioner of agriculture and labor. The N.D. Stockmen’s Association has operated the brand recording program since Aug. 1, 1993, when those responsibilities were transferred from the Agriculture Department to the Stockmen’s Association, Preusse said. As of mid-October 2018, just under 22,000 livestock brands were recorded, Preusse said. The next time brands expire will be Jan. 1, 2021.
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Educational opportunities coming to area producers By YOLANDA SCHMIDT
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Beef Quality Assurance Certification Meeting Set As of Jan. 1, major industry buyers such as Tyson Fresh Meats, JBS, Cargill, and Greater Omaha began requiring sellers of finished fat cattle to be Beef Quality Assurance certified. However, all who handle and manage fed cattle are encouraged to become BQA certified on a voluntary basis. The BQA program is a producer driven program in which cattle producers, from the cowcalf producer to the feedlot sector, assume responsibility for producing beef that is a healthy, wholesome, quality product and free from defects such as injection-site lesions and bruises. Based on local interest generated from surveys, Pierce County Extension will be hosting a BQA certification meeting on Thursday, Feb. 28 at Rugby Livestock Auction. The meeting will begin at 1 p.m. The event is free of charge and certification is good for a 3-year period. A chili lunch will also be served. RSVP’s are kindly requested for material and meal planning purposes.
2019 Private Pesticide Applicator applicators will be March 21 at 10:30 a.m. at the Pierce County Courthouse. Certification This year’s Pierce County private applicator pesticide certification trainings will again require pre-registration for the session an expiring applicator plans to attend. The Pierce County Extension office implemented the preregistration system in 2015 and will continue to do so moving forward. This process greatly helps trainings run more smoothly in addition to ensuring adequate space and materials for attendees. Expiring applicators in our county database will be mailed a notice of their expiring certificates and a list of local training dates during the week of Jan. 15. Expiring applicators will need to choose the training they will attend and submit that to the Pierce County Extension office. Applicators can also register for Pierce County pesticide trainings online. A link and more information will be included with notification letters. There will be no walk-ins unless there has been a cancellation or no-show. New applicators should call the Extension office to let us know which training they will be attending. The testing period for all new
The certification fee is $30. Checks are payable to the NDSU Extension Service. Currently, certifications are good for 3 years and expire on April 1 of the third year. Pierce County private applicator certification meetings will be held in Rugby to recertify or certify on the following dates: – Thursday, February 21 - 1 to 5 p.m. at Farm Credit Services - check-in @ 12:30 p.m. – Wednesday, March 20 - 1 to 5 p.m. at Farm Credit Services - check-in @ 12:30 p.m. For those re-certifying, who are unable to attend one of these meetings, there is the option of attending a meeting in another county. A list of known training dates and locations in other counties will be included in the notification letters sent out to expiring applicators earlier this week. As always, applicators continue to have the option of taking an open book test in lieu of attending a training meeting. The private general applicator certification fee is still $30. For questions, to find out about trainings in other counties or to schedule a time to take the test please call the Pierce County Extension office at 776-6234 ext. 5 or email NDSU.Pierce.Extension@ndsu.edu.
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GenerationskeepBrynRanchgoing By SUE SITTER
The Pierce County Tribune RUGBY – When towns sprouted across the new state of North Dakota nearly 130 years ago, homesteads appeared around them at a steady pace as settlers filed claims on land up for grabs. Members of Amund Bryn’s large family joined the land rush in the early 1880s, leaving Gudbrandsdalen, Norway, a few at a time, until Amund, his wife, and several of their 17 children were in Minnesota. From there, they settled in parts of Dakota Territory, staking claims in what would become Pierce County, near present day Balta. Sons Ole A. and Thorvald Bryn made the voyage to the United States separately from their other family members and joined four of their siblings at Lac Qui Parle County in MinSue Sitter/PCT nesota. Ole worked on Aaron Bryn, left, Ole I. Bryn and Amy Bryn farms in Minnesota and are shown on the porch of their family home, Eastern North Dakota to save money to stake a built in 1896. See BRYN — Page 12
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Ole A. Bryn’s farmhouse is shown in this photo taken in 1904 – Otto Stutrud (Martha Stutrud-Bryn’s relative), far right; Ole and Martha Bryn with some of their children; Ronnog Bryn, (white blouse); Amand Bryn (father of Ole A Bryn, white beard); and neighbor Hans Oium, far left.
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claim of his own. In 1886, Ole A. Bryn traveled to Devils Lake, and filed a tree claim for property on the northwestern edge of Pierce County in Dewey Township. He set about proving up the land, built a sod home, and planted shelterbelts. He married Martha Stutrud, began a family and built a wooden farmhouse for them. Ole’s sister Ronnog and brother Paul would file claims near his land a few years later, and around the same time, the McHenry County town of Berwick sprang up just to the south. Over the next several decades, other Dewey Township homesteads changed hands, and people gradually moved from the area. Berwick faded away, leaving a cluster of vacant
buildings along a gravel road off what is now U.S. Highway 2. However, the neat wooden home Ole A. Bryn built for his family in 1896 still stands, its exterior protected by new buttercreamcolored siding, porch coated in russet paint and insulated windows decorated with drawings done by Ole A. Bryn’s great-great granddaughters. “It was built in pieces,” Ole A. Bryn’s grandson, Ole I. Bryn said of the family home as he sat at the kitchen table. “The first part was built in 1896, and then they built onto the north side later, and this part,” he said of the kitchen, “this was built in 1903.” Ole I. Bryn and his wife, Amy, have lived in the home since they married in 1961. However, Ole I. grew up in a different home on land
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adjacent to his grandfather’s, the quarter once owned by Ronnog Bryn. His father, Melvin, had filed a claim on the land 15 years after Ronnog’s death. Melvin and Florence continued farming, and helped Ole A. Bryn with his operation as the years passed and Martha Bryn’s health declined. They had two sons, Milo, who taught mathematics at South Dakota State University, and Ole I. Bryn, who took over the farming operation. Although Melvin and Florence began their marriage and farming years in 1931, Ole said he couldn’t recall any stories his dad told him about starting out during the Great Depression and Dust Bowl. “It wasn’t much fun, I’ll Submitted Photo tell you that,” Ole noted. Aaron Bryn with wife Koreen, and children Josie, left, Leah, Reid and Amy Bryn recalled one Emily are shown in this photo. story: “Remember the story See BRYN — Page 14
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(Melvin) told about it being so cold the water in the kitchen turned to ice, and it cracked?” “Oh, yes,” Ole said. “They lived in a two-room house, and one night, it was so cold, ice froze in a bucket in the kitchen. They could hear the ice cracking, and my mother had to keep Milo under blankets to stay warm.” Family lore from further back in time tells of Ole A. Bryn and his neighbors surviving a terrible blizzard, and helping one of them recover from severe frostbite on both of his hands. But the Bryn family endured, and their interest in farming and ranching continued through four generations. After Ole A. Bryn’s death in 1954, the house stood empty until Ole I.
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Ole I. Bryn holds a photo of farm equipment from the homestead’s early days. and Amy Bryn moved in seven years later. Although drought and grasshoppers tested the newlyweds in their first year, their cattle, wheat and barley operation grew. They had three sons:
Michael Gene, who owns a body shop in Towner; Rodney Melvin, who works for John Deere in Crookston, Minnesota, and Aaron Reid, who now operates the family ranch. “All my kids are inter-
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ested in farming right now,” Aaron said, “but the oldest is only 13. My oldest is Emily, then there’s Josie, Leah and Reid,” he added, pointing to a family photo that sits on a shelf made by the children’s Grandpa Ole. Amy brought out more of Ole’s handiwork - a box with a 3D design of inlaid wood. “He does woodworking now that he’s retired,” she said. “He built cupboards above my washing machine and in the bathroom, and he built a china closet.” Aaron said he’s happy to keep the family ranch going into another generation. He oversees 2,500 acres, mostly devoted to Angus and Charolais Hereford beef cattle. He also grows some acres of oats. Aaron and his wife, Koreen, live in a home with their children north of his parents’ home. “It gets in your blood,” Aaron said of agriculture.
3rd edition of Centennial Farms & Ranches of North Dakota
The 2018-2019 edition of Centennial Farms & Ranches of North Dakota, a publication by the Minot Daily News and The Pierce County Tribune, Rugby, celebrating the historic homesteads of this state, is available now. Copies are free and can be picked up at the Minot Daily News or The Pierce County Tribune offices. Send your historical farm or ranch stories, photos Is your farm or ranch in northwest or north central North Dakota 50 years old or more? If so, please send us a story about your farm or ranch along with photos (not less than 200 resolution). Email is preferred. Please send your information and photos to eogden@minotdailynews.com as soon as possible. Be sure to include your name, city and a daytime phone number. Your farm or ranch may be selected for the next edition of the Centennial Farms & Ranches of North Dakota magazine. Suggestions for stories on historic homesteads in northwest and north central North Dakota are also accepted.
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