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In celebration of the Sesquicentennial (Plus One) of Nels and Emma settling along the Blackfoot River, their great grandson, Rick Just devoted his Idaho history blog to family history during the month of August, 2021. Links to the stories are included below.

Story Links

1. The Story of a Name
2. Two Journeys to America
3. Emma and the Morrisite War
4. Emma Finds a Spring
5. The Scoundrel Soldier
6. Stage Station Keepers
7. The Great Betrayal
8. A Montana Divorce
9. A Pioneer Wedding
10. Homesteading on the Blackfoot
11. Nels and Emma’s Cottage industry supplying explorers
12. Patent number one of the Timber Culture Act
13. The near destruction of the family
14. On the witness stand
15. Building a house from locally fired brick
16. The 1887 map
17. Running a rural post office
18. Building the Idaho Canal
19. Nels Just is laid to rest
20. A tradition of family reunions
21. Moving the Shop
22. The T Brand
23. The house catches fire
24. The B.M. Bower connection
25. Letters of Long Ago and The Lost Letters
26. The family’s newspaper history
27. Not the poet laureate
28. Two celebrated artists
29. The family and politics
30. Fish ranching
31. Famous license plates
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