by chris@rosepapacreative.com | Apr 30, 2023 | Inductees, Ranching Modern-era
Adolph Burkhardt was born on March 13, 1915, on a ranch north of Hebron, ND. His parents, Rudolph and Karolina Burkhardt had immigrated from Russia in 1910. He walked to and attended the Elm Creek country school when not needed during planting and harvesting seasons....
by chris@rosepapacreative.com | May 12, 2022 | Inductees, Ranching Modern-era
Vernon O. Goldsberry was born March 14, 1920, the son of James and Susie (Brown) Goldsberry. During the depression, when Vernon was 15 years old, he went to work for local rancher and horse dealer, Richard Moore. From 1935 to 1938, he rounded up broke wild horses that...
by chris@rosepapacreative.com | Apr 3, 2022 | Inductees, Ranching Modern-era
Steve Brooks comes from a long heritage of farmers and ranchers in Slope County. Steve’s great-great grandfather homesteaded in Sheets Township in 1904, and his great-grandfather homesteaded six miles west in 1905. Steve’s grandfather, Harold, bought land 6 miles...
by chris@rosepapacreative.com | Apr 3, 2022 | Great Westerner, Inductees, Ranching Modern-era
Philip was born on September 30th , 1909, near Independence, North Dakota. He was a member of the Knife clan, being born to Mandan-Hidatsa parents. He spoke three languages fluently and was passable in a fourth – Mandan, Hidatsa English and Lakota. He was a...
by chris@rosepapacreative.com | Apr 3, 2022 | Inductees, Ranching Modern-era
Gerald “Pat” Effertz, the youngest of eight children was 13 in 1938 when his father Joseph died leaving he and his two older brothers to help their mother Hannah hold onto the farm homesteaded in 1903, near Velva, ND. After graduating and serving in the...
by chris@rosepapacreative.com | Apr 2, 2022 | Inductees, Ranching Modern-era
Ralph Francis Murray was born October 3, 1911 at his family’s Beulah, ND homestead. He spent his lifetime in Mercer County, ND. Murray owned and operated the Ralph Murray Ranch, 12 miles southwest of Beulah, ND, from 1948 until 1971. The ranch consisted of about...
