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    • The Bethany Artist & the Bethany Scientist: Lydia & Emil >
      • Their 1869 Swedish Lutheran Galesburg Colony and Olsson Colony Smoky Valley Arrivals, ~ With a Galesburg account by Mr. Holmquist >
        • Their Värmland Swedes ~ The "First Swedish Agricultural Company" Lindsborg Founders, 1868, ~ An account by Dr. Lindquist >
          • Swedish Pastor Olof Olsson Emigrating to Lindsborg 1869, June 27th Arrival ~ An account by Dr. Lindquist >
            • Bethany Lutheran Church and Lindsborg Founder Pastor Olsson, 1869 - 1876 ~ An account by Dr..Lindquist
      • Their 1869 "Bethany Lutheran Church" ~ Accounts by Dr. Lindquist and Mr. Carlson >
        • ​Their 1860-1962 "Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Synod" ~ Gaining and losing its Swedish identity >
          • The 1860 Formation of the Augustana Synod ~ An Account by Mr. Holmquist
          • Their 1892 "Augustana Women's Missionary Society" ~ An account by Ms. Humphrey
          • The 2000 - 2016 "Augustana Heritage Association"
      • Their 1907 "Bethany Lutheran Home" ~ Accounts by Bethany Home Writers >
        • 1976 Lindsborg’s Bethany Home’s Swedish King's Visit ~ An account by Mr. Carlson's
      • Their 1909 and 1919 Swedish Smoky Valley Community Chronicles ~ Compiled and written by Bethany Lutheran Church Rev. Dr. Alfred Bergin, members and others >
        • 1909 translated to "Pioneer Swedish-American Culture in Central Kansas," 1965 ~ By Mrs. Bergin Billdt
        • 1919 translated to "The Smoky Valley in The After Years," 1969 ~ By Mrs. Bergin Billdt & Mrs. Jaderborg
      • Their 1910 Messiah Lutheran Church conducting services in English ~ An account by Dr. Lindquist >
        • ~ An account on the Messiah Lutheran Church formation from Rev. Dr. Alfred Bergin's 1909 ​"Pioneer Swedish-American Culture of Central Kansas"
      • Their 1916 Sohlberg House ​ ~ 322 North First [College] Street ~After their honeymoon
      • Their 1920 Old Main Apartments of Bethany College ~ Living on campus with the students for 20 years
      • Their 1940 Deere Home to 1943 ​~ 344 North First [College] Street ~ With new occupants after Lydia
      • Their 1936 1873 Swedish Homestead," "Our Peaceful Acres" >
        • Their 1873 Swede House ~ A close twin of Founder Rev. Olof Olsson's stone house >
          • Peaceful Acres Smoky Valley descendant friends and helpers ~ Honoring them and remembering them
      • 1943, after Lydia, Emil's part in the building of the Lindsborg Community Hospital ~ An account by Dr. Lungstrom
    • Their “1882 on . . .” Bethany College Handel’s “Messiah" Performances” >
      • "Messiah" Performers, Venues & Audiences, Press and Broadcasts >
        • Special 20th Century "Messiah" Performances
      • Handel's "Messiah" & Bach's "St. Matthew Passion" ~ Described for viewers unfamiliar with these oratorios
    • Their “1899 on . . .” Bethany College “Swedish Artists’ Midwest Art Exhibition” ​~ An account by the Birger Sandzén Memorial Gallery
    • Their “1902 on . . .” Bethany College ‘Terrible Swedes,’ Their “1903 on” ‘Rockar Stockar’ ~ An account by Dr. Lindquist
    • Their “1904 on . . .” Bethany College St. Louis World's Fair “Swedish Pavilion”
    • Their "1895 to 1981" Bethany College Anniversary Celebrations ~ 15, 20, 25, 100 years >
      • Their Celebrating 15 Years of Bethany College, 1881-1896. The First Bethany Annual, 1895-96
      • Their Celebrating 20 Years of Bethany College, 1881-1901. The "Forget-Me-Not," 1902 >
        • The King of Sweden's Emissary, 1901
        • Yale University's Bethany Club
      • Their Celebrating 25 Years of Bethany College, 1881-1906, "Souvenir of Lindsborg and Bethany College"
      • Their Celebrating 100 Years of Bethany College, 1881-1981, "The Centennial of Bethany College"
    • Their "1937" Bethany College's Introduction to New Sweden ~ Founded in 1638 >
      • Deere's Introduction to New Sweden
  • Swedish Immigration Story, 1854
    • "The Story of the Old Spoon" by Ingrid Anderson Sohlberg & Daughter Lydia Sohlberg Deere, 1937
    • Who They Left Behind
    • From Sweden with Love Collections >
      • The Swedish Sohlberg Kosta Portraits, 1867 >
        • The Swedish Sohlberg Kosta Glass
        • The Swedish Sohlberg Letters
      • The Swedish Sohlberg Royal Gold Thread Embroidery Sampler (c1890s)
      • The Swedish Sohlberg Post Cards (c1890s)
      • The Swedish Sohlberg Magazines, (c1940s)
      • The Swedish Sohlberg Books, 1819/1886 to 1899
      • The Swedish Sohlberg Albums, ~ Late 19th early 20th centuries
      • The Swedish Deere Coins -- 1801-1929
  • Artist Lydia Sohlberg Deere
    • Lydia's Lindsborg Photography, 1900-1925 >
      • The Hats
      • The Smoky River
      • The Smoky Hills >
        • Coronado Heights -- One Winter's Day
      • In and Around Lindsborg
      • Sohlberg House with Parents >
        • Our Sohlberg Home and Neighbor Alma Luise Olson
      • Sohlberg House with Emil 1916 to 1920 >
        • Lydia's Travels with Deere 1916 - 1930s >
          • Lydia's California Photographs for Painting
          • Lydia's Palm Springs Pictorial Magazine, 1938-1939
          • Lydia's California Pressed Wild Flowers, c1930
      • "LYDIA'S WORLD" Photography Exhibitions in Lindsborg, 2005 - 2011
    • Lydia as Bethany College Lane Hart Hall Dean of Women, 1906 - 1913 >
      • Lydia's Signatured Black Book of Her Handwritten Sewing Instructions >
        • Nina Sohlberg's Child's Sewing "Little Dots" PICTURE BOOK
      • Lydia Sohlberg Deere's 1927 "Lindsborg Swedish Club's" Handwork >
        • The Lindsborg Swedish Club's "Allers Monster-Tidnings" magazine, 1940
    • Lydia's Art, 1919-1938 >
      • Lydia's Art: The Kansas Collection >
        • The Sketches
      • Lydia's Art: The Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico Collection >
        • The Sketches
      • Lydia's Art: The California Collection >
        • The Sketches
        • Lydia's "Palm Springs Magazine " 1938-39
    • Lydia's Art Professor Sven Birger Sandzén, 1871-1954 >
      • Lydia's Assignments for Professor Sandzén >
        • Students of Sandzén 2019 Exhibition
        • Bethany Home ~ Celebrating Artist Birger Sandzén through his students' paintings
    • Lydia's Art Professor Birger Sandzén's "Art Exhibitions" and "Reviews" .. 1893-1940 >
      • Lydia's Art Professor Sandzén's Exhibition at the Babcock Gallery in New York, 1922
      • Lydia's Sandzén's Body of Work Reviewed by N.Y.C, 1984 "American Impressionism," author William H. Gerdts
    • Lydia's and Sandzén's Swedish Artist Friend Charles Edward Hallberg, 1855-1940
    • Lydia's and Sandzén's Swedish Artist Friend Oscar Brousse Jacobson, 1882-1966
    • Lydia’s Sohlberg Family Connection to Sandzén, 1880-1894-1993
  • Scientist Emil O. Deere
    • Deere & Lydia's Bethany -- Lydia's Photography, 1906-1925 >
      • Bethany College "Campus from Above"
      • Bethany College "The Gateway," 1917 and "Bethany Campus Association," 1912
      • Bethany College "College Street," today's "North First Street"
      • Bethany College "Campus Life"
      • Bethany College "Field Trips"
      • Bethany College's "Earliest Buildings" >
        • Bethany College "​Ladies Dormitory" / "Lane Hart Hall" 1883 - 1899 - 1983
        • Bethany College "Old Main" 1887-1968 >
          • Lydia's and Emil's Old Main Apartments, 1920 to 1940
          • Deere's Bethany College Classes in Old Main
        • Bethany College "Messiah Auditorium" / "Ling Auditorium" / "Ling Gymnasium" 1895 - 1946
        • Bethany College "Swedish Pavilion," 1904
        • Bethany College "​Carnegie Library" / "Bethany Library" 1908 - 1980
        • Bethany College "​Bethany Academy" 1882 -- Swensson's Bethany's Beginnings
    • Deere's 1959 Interview on Rev. Dr. Carl A. Swensson (On YouTube) >
      • Rev. Dr. Carl Aaron Swensson, 1857-1904 ~ An account by Dr. Lindquist >
        • Swensson's "Bethany Lutheran Church" and the "Augustana Lutheran Synod"
        • Swensson's Bethany's Beginnings: "The Bethany Academy of 1882"
        • Olsson's Influence, the Swenssons,' the Musicians' and Singers,' "Messiah," 1882 on … >
          • Thure Olof Jaderborg ~ One Lindsborg "Messiah" Commitment from 1901-1954
        • Swensson's Swedish Artists of the 1890s
        • Swensson's "Bethany College Museum," 1882 - 1966
      • In Memorium**Dr. Carl Aaron Swensson, 1904 ~ An account by Dr. Lindquist
    • Deere's Rev. Dr. Ernst F. Pihlblad, 1873-1943 ~ An account by Dr. Lindquist >
      • In Memoriam**Dr. Ernst F. Pihlblad, 1943
      • Rev. Dr. Pihlblad on Bethany College, 1904 - 1941
    • Deere's Smithsonian Institution's Souvenir, 1904
    • Deere's 1940 Presidential Address to the Kansas Academy of Science
    • Deere's 1955 Letter to President Eisenhower re Tuttle Creek
    • Deere's Service, 1901-1966 >
      • Deere's Education & Degrees
    • The Deere's Library ~ What remains of 2,000 books -- pending project
  • "The Other Swedes"
    • Honoring Them and Remembering Them ~ The Smoky Valley Writers >
      • A suggestion to individuals and entities in charge of these books ~ ​Digitalize for posterity and perpetuity
      • Rev. Bror Carlsson and Mr. Alf Brorson from Sweden ~ Tracing Värmland's Rev. Olof Olsson's church life in Sweden and in Swedish America with the Augustana Lutheran Synod >
        • ​"He Gave God Glory" "The Story of Olof Olsson, ​" 1841 - 1900 ~ By Rev. Bror Carlsson
      • Rev. Dr. Carl Aaron Swensson ~ Author of countless Swedish & English publications, newspapers articles & books for local, national & European readers
      • Bethany Church, Bethany College, Augustana Synod Writers ​~ Remembering Rev. Dr. Carl Aaron Swensson and Rev. Dr. Ernst Frederick Pihlblad
      • Rev. Dr. Alfred Bergin ​~ Compiling foundational Swedish Smoky Valley Augustana Lutheran settlements' histories and more
      • Dr. Emory K. Lindquist ~ Chronicling Swedish Augustana Lutheran Lindsborg and Bethany College from their earliest years >
        • ​1953, "Smoky Valley People, A History of Lindsborg, Kansas" ~ The Words of Dr. Lindquist and Contents & Illustrations
        • 1975 "Bethany in Kansas, the history of a college" ~ The Words of Dr. Lindquist >
          • "Bethany in Kansas" PART I ~ Contents & Illustrations
          • "Bethany in Kansas" PART II ~ Contents & Illustrations
        • 1984 "Hagbard Brase, Beloved Music Master" ~ The Words of Dr. Lindquist >
          • "Hagbard Brase" ~ Contents and Illustrations
      • Mrs. Elizabeth Jaderborg [Selma Lind] ​ ~ Chronicling the Lindsborg of her day, its early histories, its early citizens >
        • 1965 "Lindsborg On Record" ~ Contents & Illustrations
        • 1967 "Living in Lindsborg and Other Possibilities" ~ Contents & Illustrations
        • 1973 "Talk About Lindsborg" ~ Contents & Illustrations
        • 1976 "Why Lindsborg?" ~ Contents & Illustrations >
          • 1975 Why Lindsborg ~ For the King of Sweden
        • ​1990 "Two Reprints" ~ Contents & Illustrations Lists
      • Mr. Thomas N. Holmquist ~ Chronicling Lindsborg's neighbors, the Galesburg Swedes of Salemsborg and Freemount, with a personal connection, 1868
      • Mr. Bill Carlson ~ Chronicling Lindsborg's earliest and later histories, with a personal connection, 1867
      • Ms. Karen A. Humphrey ~ Chronicling highlights of Swedish Augustana Lutheran Lindsborg and Bethany College culture in the earliest years >
        • 2012 "Grace, Faith and the Power of Singing: The Alma Christina Lind Swensson Story" ~The Words of Ms. Humphrey
        • "Grace, Faith and the Power of Singing" ~ Contents & Illustrations
      • Mr. A. John Pearson ~ Chronicling the Bethany College Presidents from 1882 to 1983
      • Mr. Kenneth Sjogren ~ Chronicling the Bethany College Presidents from 1941 to 2016
      • Mr. Chris Abercrombie ~ Remembering him as "The Historian," the SVHA president and his body of work
      • Rev. Eugene K. Nelson and the Bethany Home Writers ~ Chronicling the "only known" Smoky Valley story on Bethany Home since 1907
      • Smoky Valley Historical Association Members ~ Chronicling 1993 " Where Did They Live? " "Early Residences of Lindsborg, Kansas"
    • Honoring Them and Remembering Them \\// >
      • Mrs. Alma Christina Lind Swensson ~ Remembering her as Mrs. Rev. Dr. Swensson, the "First Lady" of Lindsborg, organizer of the "Messiah Chorus" and much more ~ From ​Ms. Humphrey's Book
      • ​Samuel Thorstenberg ~ Remembering him as the "earliest" internationally acclaimed Bethany College "Messiah Chorus" conductor
      • Dr. Hagbard Brase ~ Remembering him as the second "earliest" internationally acclaimed Bethany College "Messiah Chorus" conductor
      • B.G. Gröndal ~ Remembering him and his photography in the earliest years of Lindsborg and Bethany College >
        • B.G. Gröndal ~ Accounts by Mr. Abercrombie and Mrs. Jaderborg with LINK to Mrs. Eddy, B.G.'s granddaughter's book review
      • International "NY Times" Correspondent Miss Alma Luise Olson ~ Remembering her as "First Honored American Woman by Sweden" ~ An account by ​Mrs. Elizabeth Jaderborg* >
        • ​​Miss Alma Luise Olson ~ Remembering her and the extraordinary life she led at home and abroad ~ An account by Ms. Karen A. Humphrey
      • Artist Birger Sandzén ~ Remembering him for "sharing his art with the world," starting "first" at Lindsborg's Bethany College >
        • Dr. & Dr. Mrs. Charles Greenough III ~ Remembering them for their gift of the Birger Sandzén Memorial Gallery -- pending
      • William Holwerda, M.D. ~ Remembering him as "Doc Bill," a city father and loving citizen, by Dr. Leon Lungstrom and Mrs. Elizabeth Jaderborg >
        • "Svensk Hyllningsfest" ​ ~ Remembering Dr. William Holwerda as a founder and "the key" organizer in 1941
        • Dr. William Holwerda ~ Remembering their family doctor and Messiah Lutheran Church tributes to him by Dr. Leon Lungstrom
      • Artist Lester Raymer ~ Remembering him as the renowned virtuoso artist and "behind the scenes" community supporter
      • Dr. Arvin W. Hahn ​​~ Remembering him for saving Bethany College from going under!​ >
        • Dr. Arvin W. Hahn ~ Remembering him handing me my Bethany College Diploma on Sunday, May 26, 1968
      • Dr. ​& Mrs. Elmer Copley ~ Remembering them and their 29 years of dedication to that Bethany College "Messiah" tradition of excellence >
        • 1976 Dr. Elmer Copley ~ Remembering him as the “Messiah” conductor for the Bethany College "Swedish King’s," Carl XVI Gustaf's, performance >
          • 1981 Dr. Elmer Copley ~ Remembering him as the "Messiah" conductor for the Bethany College "Centennial Celebration" performance >
            • 1986 Dr. Elmer Copley ~ Remembering him as the televised "American Easter" conductor of the Bethany College Oratorio Society Holy Easter Week
      • Mrs. Elizabeth Jaderborg ~ Remembering her as the founder of the 1963 "Lindsborg Swedish Folk Dancers" ~ An account by Mr. Chris Abercrombie
      • Mr. & Mrs. Hilding Jaderborg ~ Remembering them and their “Swedish Crafts Shop” of 65 years and 50 trips to Sweden
      • The Swedish Lindsborg Builders ~ Remembering them for the lovely homes they built
      • Mr. Chris Abercrombie ~ Remembering him for "first" shining an international light on Lindsborg and Bethany College, via YouTube
      • Dr. Greta Swenson and Mr. & Mrs. Mark Esping ~ Remembering them for founding Lindsborg's “first” "Swedish-American Folklife Institute of Central Kansas," 1986 >
        • Remembering their Lindsborg's Folklife Institute's "Swedish-American Heritage Center," 1996
      • Mr. Claude Koehn ~ Remembering him as restorer and preservationist of Smoky Valley stone farmhouses and other stone structures
      • Ms. Rebecca Copley ~ Remembering her as Bethany College's “first” graduate to become an International Concert & Opera Soprano >
        • Ms. Copley's "International Concert and Opera Soprano" ​~ The REVIEWS
      • Mr. Bruce Karstadt ~ Honoring him as a Bethany College graduate for heading up a major national Swedish American institution
      • Dr. Mark Lucas ~ Messiah conductor bringing the Lindsborg “Oberammergau of the Plains" to a "new" world audience
    • 1894-1962 Bethany College Graduates in Augustana Lutheran Synod World Mission Work ~ An account by Dr. Emory K. Lindquist
    • 1901-2014 The ​Bethany College Swedish Knights and Ladies ~ Honored by the Kings of Sweden
    • 1961-2021 ​"McPherson County Old Mill Museum" leaders ~ Moving forward in August 2021 as "The Lindsborg Old Mill and Swedish Heritage Museum"
    • 1971 -2020 "American Scandinavian Association of the Great Plains" leaders ~ Providing cultural history and heritage programs with meaningful links to Sweden and Swedish America
    • 1976 His Majesty the King of Sweden, Carl XVI Gustaf's Visit to Lindsborg April 17th >
      • The Lindsborg & Bethany College "Swedes" ~ Honored by the King of Sweden, June 6, 1976
    • 1977​ Swedish Emigrant Institute Staff from Växjö, Småland Visits Lindsborg October 16-18
    • 1978 Swedish Documen- tary Film Crew Visits Lindsborg October 2-9 >
      • "Lindsborg News-Record" Clippings of 1978 Swedish Film Crew Visit
    • 1992 - 2020 ​Honoring Them and Remembering Them ~ Their ​Smoky Valley History Research Writers Website Designers
  • Contacts
    • For 1869 Lindsborg CONTACT Today >
      • "A Time to Remember" 1882 - 1988
    • ​For 1881 Bethany College CONTACT Today >
      • "Bethany Campus Walk” ~ Remembering the buildings and the "Bethany Family" of their era, 1882 - 2015
      • Their "I WAS THERE" Coin ~ Bethany College 21st Year Celebration, 1902
    • For 1957 Birger Sandzén Memorial Gallery CONTACT Today >
      • Sandzén: "Ecstasy of Color" ~ PBS Doucmentary ~ Aired 6/11/21
    • Closing Remarks >
      • Traveling through SWEDES ​~ The Table of Contents ~ The "Outline" "Online"
      • SWEDES' Swedish American Legacy Photographs >
        • ​Lydia's Lindsborg Photography​, ​1900 - 1925 >
          • Lydia's Bethany College Photography, ​1906 - 1925
    • Kansas Smoky Valley Swedish People's Memorial, 2009 ~ The virtual one >
      • In real time, the real 1941 memorial, the "Pioneer Cross" ​~ Created by Messrs. Lindholm and Oberg
The Smoky Valley Historical Association aka SVHA celebrated its 100th founding year in 2019!
 "The Other Swedes" 
Honoring Them and Remembering Them

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​1919 "Lindsborg Historical Society" leaders
~ Their Smoky Hills, Coronado Heights, projects and Lydia's photographs
~ the 1926 SMHS ~ the 1963 SVHA


In the early years, the Smoky Hills located 3.8 miles northwest of Lindsborg in McPherson County had also been referred to as the "Spanish Buttes," the "Smoky Valley Buttes," the "Smoky Valley Bluffs," the "Smoky Hill Bluffs" and perhaps other names as well.   However, these Smoky Hills are not to be confused with those in Saline County 12 miles north of Lindsborg near Smolan, Kansas, which are part of the title of the 1994 book Pioneer Cross, Swedish Settlements Along the Smoky Hill Bluffs by Mr. Thomas N. Holmquist.

For this piece of writing, the hills nearest Lindsborg shall be referred to as the Smoky Hills. Since 1919, their official name became "Coronado Heights," actually for the highest hill, Smoky Hill, of these hills.  Smoky Hill then, Coronado Heights now, rises 300 feet above the Smoky Valley floor. * 

Before the Swedes entered the Smoky Valley, it belonged to the Native American territory of the Kaw Nation tribe and was first explored by European visitors from Spain, namely the famous Spanish explorer Francisco Vasquez de Coronado and about thirty of his men in July of 1541.  This was before the Mayflower landed in Massachusetts in 1620 and the Swedes in Pennsylvania in 1638.  Coronado's exploration of Kansas for the Cities of Cíbola, the mythical Seven Cities of Gold, Quivira, as he coined the word, has been widely reported by historians through the centuries. Most authorities agree that the location of Quivira is to be in central Kansas near present-day Lyons extending northeast to Salina.* 
Quivira Wikipedia

Local Smoky Valley authors of the 20th and 21st centuries also reported this such as Lindsborg-born historian and educator Mr. Bill Carlson (1930-2008) in his 2010 Lindsborg Then and Lindsborg Now.  He was a grandson of Swedish Magnus Carlson and his bride Maria, who entered the Valley in 1867 two years before the two colonies of Swedes did.  He states in his book on page 56 that "The land including this highest hill was initially secured by the local Historical Society, part by purchase, and part by long-time lease, and now serves as a public park maintained by the Smoky Valley Historical Association [the former Lindsborg Historical Society].  In turn, the high hill was officially named Coronado Heights" [Emil O. Deere witnessed that naming.]**   

Thus it was the highest hill of these Smoky Hills which brought about the formation of the "Lindsborg Historical Society" in 1919.


Well regarded research writer, historian, author and Smoky Valley Historical Association secretary, Mrs. Elizabeth Jaderborg (1918-2016) wrote three articles on the subject of the Lindsborg Historical Society and Coronado Heights that first appeared in the Lindsborg News Record.  They eventually found their way into her historical Lindsborg anthology of small books with the titles of "Coronado," "Coronado, Et. Al." "Coronado Lookout," and "The Olsson Trail."

​Summarizing from what I have read, here are some of the facts that I gleaned from Mrs. Jaderborgs writings.

of her
1965 "Lindsborg On Record" is her "Coronado;" from ​1967 "Living in Lindsborg and Other Possibilities" is her "The Olsson Trail;" from 1973 "Talk About Lindsborg" is her "Coronado Lookout;" and from 1976 "Why Lindsborg" is her "Coronado, Et Al." The one article on "The Olsson Trail" can be found in the next section, titled "The Society's formation and requesting Bethany College to begin a historical museum ~ An account by Mrs. Jaderborg.

Below are the facts of these topics from Mrs. Jaderborg's research writing and also from Bethany College Biology Professor Dr. Leon Lungstrom (1915-2000).  These are presented in summary form.  
>>> "The Lindsborg Historical Society" was founded on September 25, 1919.

>>> The Founders

​It really is not defined clearly who were the true founders per se of the Lindsborg Historical Society.  However, below are names of those who were primarily responsible for the work on the Smoky Hills by alphabetical order:
William Ahlstrom     Emil O. Deere     G. N. Malm     C.A. Nelson     R. Johnson     Birger Sandzén 
Dr. Emil O. Deere was certainly mentioned as a founder of the Society in the 1966 Bethany College Bethanian, as part of a remembrance of him as he had passed on in January of that year, as this is shown in the SWEDES' Deere's section.  Mrs. Jaderborg mentions in her "Coronado's Lookout" article of the participation of the college professors asking for Bethany College board support for this organization and mentioning that Emil O. Deere was a "charter member" of the organization.

​>>> Deere as the "Geologist" and his 1907 Thesis on the Smoky Hills
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Emil O. Deere would certainly have been looked upon as a key resource for the projects concerning the Smoky Hills, as he was a scientist and a geologist who over a decade before completed his 1907 Master's Degree from Bethany College with his thesis titled as:
​"Geology of Study in the Area of the Smoky Valley Buttes." 
Swedish American Bethany College biology professor Dr. Leon Lungstrom records this information in his chapter on "Emil O. Deere" in his 1990 book History of Natural Science and Mathematics at Bethany College, Lindsborg, Kansas.

T
o confirm this Thesis information, in 2019, contact was made with former director Mrs. Lorna Nelson of the Old Mill Museum to see if the thesis was in the Deere Archive located there.  Mrs. Nelson had curator and archivist Mrs. Lenora Lyman check to see.  In turn an email on July 22, 2019 was sent to me confirming that the Thesis was there describing its pages were brittle and cracking with an attached confirming photograph from one of the pages. 

​>>>  The "mission" of the Lindsborg Historical Society and the three names of this organization

​​Caring for the Smoky Hills was the Society's principal mission, and while doing so the organization's name would change in 1926 to the "Smoky Valley Historical Society," and in 1963 to the "Smoky Valley Historical Association" (SVHA), which continues as its name.

>>> The Projects of the Lindsborg Historical Society
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Building a road to the top of the highest bluff of the Smoky Hills
Of the Smoky Hills projects involved, the main one was for the 1919 Lindsborg Historical Society to create a road to the top of the highest bluff.  This assignment rested with Emil O. Deere, Birger Sandzén, G.N. Malm, William Ahlstrom, C.A. Nelson and R. Johnson, all of whom staked out the road from the valley floor to the summit on May 20, 1920.

Laying out a footpath to the top of the highest bluff

Preceding the completed road, first there would be laid out a footpath from the Valley floor to the top

Building a bridge over the draw of the southwest bluff
​Deere, Nelson and Malm were also to see that a bridge was built over the draw located on the southwest bluff.

Building a temporary shelter near the top of the highest bluff
As well, Deere, Nelson and Malm were to see that a temporary shelter was built near the top of the highest bluff which would be given the name of "Fernebo Lodge" -- Fernebo maybe for the 
Färnebo Parish of Värmland, Sweden, where Pastor Olof Olsson ministered before pastoring at the Sunnemo congregation which followed his and many of his members emigrating to America, to Lindsborg in 1869.

>>>  Naming of the Road and the Path
     
The Lindsborg Historical Society named the road "Swensson Drive," in honor of the dynamic Swedish American Rev. Dr. Carl Aaron Swensson, the founder of Bethany College and second pastor of Bethany Lutheran Church. 
     
The Society named the path, the “Olsson Trail,” in honor of Swedish pioneer Pastor Olof Olsson, who with his Värmland, Sweden, emigration colony arrived in June 1869 to Lindsborg [which only had been given its name on February 20, 1869].  ​Pastor Olsson had become the "Spiritual Founder" of Lindsborg when he found its "first" church, one day to become known as the Mother Church of the Valley, that was named the Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Bethany Church on August 19, 1869, which today is known as Bethany Church.


>>>  Renaming the Smoky Hills by WIlliam Hagstrom


The Smoky Hills name would eventually changed to Coronado Heights as a result of one summer’s evening in 1919 when founder Emil O. Deere and William Hagstrom were sitting on an eastern slope of the Hills overlooking the Smoky Valley.  As they were watching the reflection of the sunset on the fields of ripened wheat, it appeared “gold” in color bringing to Hagstrom’s mind “the gold” that Spanish explorer Francisco Vasquez de Coronado was seeking when he discovered the Smoky Hiils in July of 1541.                                                                       
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*The above information has been arranged, formatted, in such a way, for any Smoky Valley social studies or history teacher or Bethany College history professor, if they wish, to use in their classroom experimentally for developing their own curriculum around the pilot SWEDES' inspired course, "Swedish American Smoky Valley Studies," with this first topic being "The Lindsborg Historical Society and the Smoky Hills."
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Swedish American Smoky Valley Studies*

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The Lindsborg Historical Society and the Smoky Hills
It is interesting to note that Mrs. Jaderborg had a master's degree in education and her husband Swede Bethany College graduate Dr. Einer Jaderborg (1918-2004) was a Smoky Valley School District No. 400 educator for 41 years, first teaching High School English for 17 years, then becoming the high school principal for 9 years and finally the Superintendent for 16 years. ​
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>>> Lydia's Photographs of the Lindsborg Historical Society Projects

It could be that when the Society was nearly finished with these projects in the early 1920s that Emil asked Lydia to take the following photographs, to visually document the completed work with the series of photographs which I found in their Sohlberg Deere Estate, as well as some of their negatives.   Here are the images of those photographs.
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- Lydia Surveying the Smoky Hills with Emil -

​- Another way to look at the photographs -
- These additional photographs were given to me by the granddaughter of photographer Bror G. Gröndal's. -
(The first
 two of Deere with group o
n top of Coronado Heights.  The third is of Seth Sohlberg with cows shown left on the valley floor.)
>>>   Recreating the day that the name of Coronado Heights was born

​After much study and thought, I have concluded that Emil or Lydia might have wanted to recreate a photograph of that day when the name changed from the various names of the Smoky Hills to something entirely different, distinctive and historical which was to Coronado Heights in 1919. 

​This photograph may have captured that same time of day on the slope that Deere and Hagstrom experienced, of "seeing the wheat fields of gold” which led to the name change.
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- Lydia's photograph recreating the day of the name change to Coronado Heights in 1919 -
- Name changed by Hagstrom and witnessed by Deere -
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2011 Photograph
-  Coronado Heights Castle -
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c1920
Lydia Sohlberg Deere Sketch
of 
Spanish Explorer Francisco Vasquez de Coronado and His Men
​ riding to the summit of the highest bluff of these Smoky Hill in 1541
This sketch became a colorful oil painting which sold at the Deere House auction in 1981.
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2006 Photograph
- Taken from Coronado Heights' Swensson Drive of the Kansas Smoky Valley Lindsborg -
(The official Swedes: TheWayTheyWere photograph.)
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The Lindsborg Historical Society continues to operate to this date under its third name given to it in 1963, "The Smoky Valley Historical Association" (SVHA).  To learn more of the hard work and dedication to the restoration, preservation and promotion of Smoky Valley history, go HERE.
  Sources:   * TopoZone.com
                       Mrs. Elizabeth Jaderborg:  1965 Lindsborg on Record and 1967 Living in Lindsborg
                       Dr. Leon Lungstrom's 1990 History of Natural Science and Mathematics at Bethany College, Lindsborg, Kansas



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Found in the Emil O. Deere Estate were photographs and negatives taken by Lydia Sohlberg Deere in the early 1920s concerning the very beginning of the work on the Smoky Valley Bluffs. 
​Also, most all of the following information comes from the late Lindsborg historian and researcher Mrs. Elizabeth Jaderborg, former SVHA secretary, from her book, "Talk About Lindsborg," the chapter on page 47 titled "Coronado's Lookout."
She writes that professors from Bethany College were involved and that Emil was a "charter member" of the organization which was in charge of the Bluffs. 
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 "Lindsborg Historical Society" / "Smoky Valley Historical Society" / "S​moky Valley Historical Association" ​
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