Early Threshing In North Dakota

By Earl Olsen
Published on March 1, 1973
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Holland E. Maxwell
1904 Northwest Engine and Peerless Separator outfit of the father of Earl Olsen, Concrete, North Dakota. The crew composed of Indians from the White Earth Reservation in Minnesota. Courtesy of Holland E. Maxwell, Route 4, Huntington, Indiana 46750.

Concrete, North Dakota 58221.

I was exposed to steam threshing at a very early age here in
North Dakota in the extreme northeastern part of the state. My
father and mother were married in 1893. Just when my father began
threshing for himself, I am not sure of, but probably before he was
married. His first engine was a return flue portable and probably a

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