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From here, our life in Idaho the Dakotas. We all had to clear land enough to build our
houses. But we were young and anxious for a home of our
t was a hot Saturday p.m. when we drove into Bon-
own. We bought 120 acres but sold 50 acres of it two years
ners. Found a cabin camp, where we stayed for the
later to Lawsons who came from Nebraska.
first week, then moved
Ito another cabin camp Otto worked hard that summer of 1935,

where we stayed two more building our log house (sawed flat on three

weeks while we found some sides). We had three rooms downstairs
land and a place to live near it and made a bedroom for the boys upstairs.

while we built a house. Guy’s Downstairs we had a kitchen and living

bought land across the highway room together and two small bedrooms.
from us and built a small house We loved it, it was our first home. We all

also. They had only one son, worked hard picking up sticks and as large
Reed. as logs as we could handle, we piled and

burned them. We had wood to make, be-
Other folks from Colorado,
cause it wasn’t long until colder weather
Lester and Edna Anderson, and
would be setting in. We had bought second
son bought land joining ours. Cecil and Ramona in front
of the house, January 1, 1938 hand furniture to get by, used apple boxes
We had gotten acquainted with
for chairs. I believe, we brought some mat-
them at the cabin court. They were from Eastern Colorado.
tresses and dishes, bedding, etc. to get along with. The chil-

We soon learned we had neighbors in all directions from dren started to school. Edward started his junior year of
us who had recently come and several came a few years af- high school at Bonners (but didn’t go but a few months

ter we did – all from drought states, Colorado, Nebraska, and quit). He went to work in the woods then. The other

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