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xii Warren Nelson recording the recollections of people who have been important to the development of Nevada and the West. Transcripts resulting from the interviews are deposited in the Special Collections departments of the University Libraries at Reno and Las Vegas. Warren Nelson has generously donated the literary rights in his memoir to the University of Nevada, and has designated the volume as open for research. Keith Becker University of Nevada, Reno 1978
I was born in Great Falls, Montana, January 19, 1913. My father’s name was Lawrence Nelson; he was a chef of Danish extraction. He had been raised in Oregon. My grandfather came over from Denmark and joined the Northern army in the Civil War. At that time the name was Nelsen, s-e-n, but my grandfather’s poor English and the lack of understanding of the sergeant that enlisted him put it down s-o-n, so since then it’s been N-e-1-s-o-n. My mother’s name was Bertha Meisenbach. Her parents were born in Luxemberger.She came out to Montana from St. Louis as a young girl and married my father. I had a lot of relatives around Montana, on my mother’s side all German and Luxemberger extraction. I spent quite a bit of time with them up to the time I was fi ve years old. At that time my mother became ill and died delivering a child; the child died too. Since then I have had no brothers or sisters. Aft er my mother’s death, my father was a cook, a chef, in a restaurant there and couldn’t take care of me. I have people who I 1 Background, Education call aunt and uncle but who were actually my second cousins that took me down to a little town called Hysham, in southern Montana. Hysham was the county seat of the smallest county in Montana called Treasure County. It would be hard to believe that this was a real wild county in those days, there were cowboys who came to town on Saturday night with their pistols on their hip, and there was a shooting most every week. We lived on a one hundred-sixty acre ranch outside of the town, about forty miles out. Th e roads were very, very poor and we couldn’t drive the car across the creeks so we lived on the other side of the creek. We lived in a log cabin with no fl oor, a dirt fl oor, two rooms and a little lean-to on the outside where the kids slept. I had six cousins, four girls and two boys; I was the youngest. Being the youngest I was pretty well spoiled by the older ones. But, it was a good life for about four years. I went to school in Hysham up until the third grade, I believe, then went to the little town of Eden, Montana, with my relatives and
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