The chicken ranch
My maternal great-grandmother, Ingrid Oline
Burkum Forthun, in 1925. Lena was the daughter of Norwegian immigrants (her
father fought in the Civil War). Born in Wisconsin, Lena married a Norwegian
immigrant in the Dakota Territory, bore six children, and homesteaded as a
widow in western North Dakota. She was visiting her daughter's chicken ranch in
Arkansas at the time of this photograph.
That title has a different meaning out here in Nevada.
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