Adolph Burkhardt

Adolph Burkhardt

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....
Vernon Goldsberry

Vernon Goldsberry

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...
Steve Brooks

Steve Brooks

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...
Ralph Murray

Ralph Murray

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...