Latah County Oral History Collection

William Kauder Interview #2, 5/3/1974

Topics: Developing the homestead. Pioneering ways. Available work. 5-3-74 1 hr 14p RM
Subjects: assassinations churches death families farming harvesting homesteads immigrants murders music presidents railroads sawmills timber trials
Locations: Southwick Cedar Creek Kendrick

Elmer Wells Interview #2, 11/15/1974

Topics: Joe Wells in North Carolina. Decision to leave North Carolina. Men who became wealthy from Day mine stock. 11-15-74 .8 hr
Subjects: African-Americans brothels death drinking farming fights homesteads mining politics saloons slavery stores
Locations: Moscow Troy Genesee

Byers Sanderson Interview #3, 1/23/1976

Topics: Hoodoo and swamp Creek mining. Company control of independent loggers. East European lumberjacks. Arson and murder in Bovill fire. Gambling and moonshine. Strong men. 1-23-76 2.5 hr 54p
Subjects: CCC Chinese Americans accidents arson automobiles businesses death drinking fighting fires homesteads isolation logging miners mines mining moonshine murders thieves timber women working conditions
Locations: Bovill

Nellie Johanson

Occupation: n/a
Family Origin: n/a

Helmer RINGSAGE (b. 1888)

Residence: Park Central Ridge
Occupation: Farmer logger
Family Origin: Parents were Norwegian homesteaders (1890); he is Edward Swenson's nephew

Frank & Lottie Rowan (b. 1885)

Residence: Troy
Occupation: Road foreman brickyard worker logger
Family Origin: Family came from Minnesota (c.1900)

Henry Brammer Interview #1, 8/20/1973

Topics: Farming in two depressions. Getting started as a farmer. Father's carpentry. Kansas dugout. Rural innovations. 8-20-73 1 hr 20p RM
Subjects: Great Depression Native Americans carpentry childhood farming logging camps mail carriers roads winter
Locations: Cameron Juliaetta

Grace White Ryan Interview #1 (w/ Sister Viola White Cameron), 7/25/1974

Topics: and Grace Ryan (sister) Flunkeying and lumberjacks. Social life of Bovill. Mother's work, Loss of Slabtown house in 1914 fire. 7-25-24 1 hr LS
Subjects: automobiles children chores electricity families food forest fires logging camps lumberjacks rodeos schools strikes
Locations: Bovill Potlatch

Ruth Leland Interview #1, 5/25/1976

Topics: Local church history and revivals. Children's Day. Nez Perce Christianity. Discrimination against Nez Perces. Alexander's Store Foster School of Healing. 5-25-76 1.5 hr 21p
Subjects: Christian Jewish Americans Native Americans children churches discrimination doctors festivals medicine religion stores world wars
Locations: Juliaetta Kendrick

Elsie Adair MOORE (b. 1899)

Residence: Bovill Princeton
Occupation: Homemaker
Family Origin: Father came from Oregon in 1882

Daniel (Bert) Gamble Interview #1, 12/5/1973

Topics: The Poet of the Palouse reading thirty of his poems. 12-5-73 .8 hr RM
Subjects: holidays poets poetry
Locations: Genesee Paradise Ridge

Lola Gamble Clyde Interview #5, 6/5/1975

Topics: Famous North Idaho women. Subservience of women to husbands. Women and prohibition. Her teaching experience; choice of marriage over career. Depths of the depression. Rural electrification. 6-5-75 1.7 hr 44p
Subjects: authors presentations women local histories childbirth teachers families normal schools Great Depression farming family life education marriage women's rights
Locations: Moscow

Harry Sampson Interview #1, 11/13/1974

Topics: Learning the clothing trade. Working for David's. Credit and competi tion. Moscow business climate. Bringing scouting to town. Ragtime band Growing up in Moscow. 11-13-74 1.9 hr 30p
Subjects: University of Idaho banks blacksmiths businesses butchering cards childhood churches clothing clubs construction customers dances downtowns families fires floods food fraternities games holidays illness main streets music sports stores students uniforms winter women world wards
Locations: Moscow

Helena Cartwright Carlson Interview #1, 7/6/1975

Topics: Rural school: games, get-togethers, teaching. Chores and play; animal pets. Cultural barriers with Swedish community. 7-6-75 2 hr p KP
Subjects: Native Americans automobiles canning and preserving childhood chores churches dances education families farming farms festivals floods food games guns holidays hunting immigrants languages literary lumberjacks music newspapers normal schools pets railroads roads rural schools schools students teachers water winter
Locations: Troy Big Meadow Colville Lewiston Moscow Elk River

Dora Otter FLEENER (b. 1894)

Residence: Rural Moscow
Occupation: Farm wife housekeeper author of Coming West from South Dakota
Family Origin: Family moved from South Dakota in 1902

Grace Jain Wicks Interview #5, 12/11/1974

Topics: Great aunt's independence and homesteading. Grandparents' pioneering. Parents' struggle to establish farm. Family politics. 12-11-74 2 hr 21p
Subjects: Native Americans businesses clothing dances families farming homesteads legislators lore pioneers politics schools wedding women
Locations: Genesee Coyote Grade Hog Meadows

Clara Payne Grove Interview #1, 2/20/1974

Topics: Editing Troy Weekly News. Local life in the twenties. 2-20-74 1 hr Emily Moore
Subjects: Prohibition University of Idaho WCTU automobiles boardinghouses businesses crops death doctors downtowns farming immigrants local histories log cabins newspapers police officers students suicide water women
Locations: Moscow Troy

Frank Brocke Interview #2, 4/26/1975

Topics: Troy bank and community support in the Great Depression. Victory during Bank holiday. Farm economics and bank policy. Banker Ole Bohman. School consolidation; work as school board clerk. 4-26-75 1.5 hr 38p
Subjects: families education banks Great Depression world wars
Locations: Troy Kendrick

Axel Anderson Interview #4, 8/20/1974

Topics: Work as walking boss. Hiring and firing men. Relations with workers and management. Woods routine and variety. Laying shay lines. 8-20-74 2 hr 42p SS&LS
Subjects: Great Depression drinking fires forests gyppos immigrants insurance lumberjacks railroads work workers world wars
Locations: Bovill Elk River Potlatch

William (Michigan Bill) Stowell Interview #2, 2/24/1976

Topics: IWW Strike of 1936: murder of pickets; arrest and blackballing. Strikes on the job. Lumberjack sociability. Picking timber on river drives; fluming. 2-24-76 1.5 hr 42p
Subjects: gambling cards lumberjacks logging camps log drives accidents reading sports gyppos IWW death strikes working conditions
Locations: Bovill Clearwater River Clarkia

Lola Gamble Clyde Interview #7, 10/12/1976

Topics: Women's life in country compared to town. Women's civic achieve ments in Moscow. Women's teaching opportunities. Family size. Church activities; attitudes about dying. Social relations at university. Anti-German actions during war; Klan in the 1920s. IWW's in harvest. Frank B. Robinson. 10-12-76 2.5 hr p
Subjects: women authors
Locations: Moscow

Crystal Ottosen GRUELL (b. 1905)

Residence: Juliaetta
Occupation: Teacher homemaker
Family Origin: Parents were raised in Denmark and Iowa, and came in 1908

Nellie Wood Smith Interview #1, 6/27/1974

Topics: Wagon journey from Rexburg to Parma. Family homesteading at McGary Butte. Moving west; living in Laramie, Wy.; move to Troy. 6-27-74 2 hr 39p RM
Subjects: Native Americans accidents construction families food holidays homemakers homesteads illness immigrants music pioneers schools wagons
Locations: Bovill Wyoming Troy Parma Rexburg McGary Butte

William (Michigan Bill) Stowell Interview #3, 9/28/1976

Topics: Riding the rails. Jungles. Blowing-in. IWW community; support for 1936 strike in Pierce. Jail and blacklisting. Girl friends. Depression in California. Prostitutes. Fights; gambling. 9-28-76 2.8 hr 56p
Subjects: railroads death alcohol Prohibition drinking logging camps thieves lumberjacks IWW strikes music jails unions sawmills politics CCC fighting prostitutes disease illness winter gambling moonshine foremen reading women log drives rivers unions floods
Locations: Bovill Clearwater River Clarkia

Norla Callison Interview #2, 12/7/1973

Topics: With Walter Benscoter (friend) Festive get-togethers. Moonshine. Weather and farming. One-room school. Thieves. Early homesteading. 12-7-73 1.3 hr 39p RM
Subjects: Prohibition alcohol churches dances families farming granaries holidays homesteads orchards prohibition schools sports threshing water weddings winter
Locations: Kendrick Troy American Ridge

Pete PAOLINI (b. 1903)

Residence: Elk River Lewiston
Occupation: Sawmiller lumberjack
Family Origin: Came from Italy in 1920

Dora Otter Fleener Interview #1, 8/21/1973

Topics: Home life as a girl. Mother's influence on household. Exclusion of women from animal husbandry at university. Fleener family's plains crossing (1852). 8-21-73 1 hr
Subjects: authors childhood children colleges and universities death families homesteads illness literary livestock medicine pioneers rural communities schools
Locations: Moscow

Lora Brackett Albright Interview #2, 5/25/1976

Topics: Significance of teacher to community. Midwiving at childbirths. Decision to marry. Longings of pioneer women. Native and imported plants. 5-25-76 1.5 hr 40p
Subjects: childbirth children dating death families food marriage medicine miscarriage rural schools schools teachers teaching women
Locations: Potlatch Juliaetta

Tom and Elizabeth Wahl Interview #2, 3/10/1976

Topics: Relations between hired help and farm families. Butchering bees. Winter work and isolation. 3-10-76 2 hr 46p
Subjects: automobiles butchering chores colleges and universities farmers farming harvesting homesteads migrants miners mining sawmill school winter
Locations: Palouse Troy Genesee Grey Eagle District

Clay Gustin Interview #1, 7/25/1973

Topics: Work on Park sleigh-haul and McGary Butte fire. Good ecology of early logging methods. 7-25-73 1 hr
Subjects: IWW accidents alcohol childhood colleges and universities death fires forest fires horses immigrants logging murders railroads schools students unions
Locations: Clarkia Princeton Moscow McGary Butte Deary Park Potlatch

William MORGAN (b. 1895)

Residence: Lewiston and vicinity
Occupation: Owner of Morgan Brothers food and equipment distributors
Family Origin: Parents farmed near Nezperce after leaving Kansas (1898)

Axel Anderson Interview #3, 7/26/1974

Topics: Serving in forestry unit in France in World War I. Drinking and liquor control in camp. Log chutes; donkeys and horses. Depression logging. 7-26-74 2 hr 40p SS&LS
Subjects: Great Depression IWW armed forces bootlegging drinking families logging logging camps lumber railroads sports world wars
Locations: Bovill Elk River Potlatch

John SANDERSON (b. 1884)

Residence: Bovill
Occupation: Maintenance man for Potlatch Lumber Company photographer
Family Origin: Byers Sanderson's brother

Charles Jelleberg Interview #1, 8/8/1973

Topics: With Carl Lancaster (friend) Handling teams; balky horses. Logging accidents and narrow escapes. Foremen; incompetent partners. Abortive IWW strike of 1936. Pay and production. Closeness of homesteaders. 8-8-73 2 hr 72p
Subjects: IWW accidents foremen homesteads horses logging lumberjacks strikes
Locations: Park

Glenn CORRIN (b. 1890)

Residence: Troy
Occupation: General laborer
Family Origin: Parents came from South Dakota (1890)

Joe Maloney Interview #1, 8/22/1974

Topics: Life of single lumberjacks: hard work, honesty, blowing-in. Jungling up; camp inspectors. Stories of Weyerhaeuser brothers, Dick Ferrell and Big Gil. Eccentric camp cooks. Playing tricks in camp. IWW's. 8-22-74 1.6 hr 45p
Subjects: IWW Japanese Americans accidents automobiles bootlegging childhood dances death doctors farming fighting immigrants logging lumber moonshine sawmills schools women world wars
Locations: Potlatch

Eugene Settle Interview #4, 12/19/1975

Topics: Parents' teachings. One-room country school. Store purchases. Country people in Moscow. 12-19-75 1.2 hr 28p
Subjects: childhood schools education religion
Locations: Aspendale Moscow

Mary McConnell Borah Interview #1, 10/15/1971

Topics: First dinner at the White House with Teddy Roosevelt; her gown. Senator Borah. Her kidnapping as a baby. (Interview recorded in Beaverton, Oregon for radio broadcast; donated by Sister Mary Christina) 10-15-71 .5 hr p Maureen Bassett
Subjects: politics women families marriage automobiles clothing legislators senators presidents death
Locations: Moscow Washington, D.C.

Herman SCHUPFER (b. 1892)

Residence: Juliaetta Kendrick
Occupation: Operated local telephone company and theatre district representative for Washington Water Power
Family Origin: Parents emigrated from Austria; father homesteaded adjacent to Juliaetta townsite (1879)

Amanda Asplund Phelan Interview #1, 1/3/1976

Topics: With Addie Swanson (daughter) Childbirths. Childhood experiences and fears. Farm food and visiting Mother's work. Town trips. Housekeeping in Spokane. 1-3-76 1 hr KP
Subjects: childbirth childhood clothing dances death families fishing food illness languages marriage medicine midwives neighbors orchards parties railroads roads schools sewing women
Locations: Troy Spokane Bear Creek Dry Creek

Fannie Cuthbert Byers Interview #2, 1976

Topics: and Jennie Brouillard (sister). Nursing in a field hospital in France in World War I. Women's work in harvest and processing. Farm self-sufficiency. Viola Community Club. Impact of Adventists. Effects of school consolidation. 11-5-76 2.8 hr 7ip
Subjects: nursing world wars women farming harvesting religion schools clubs farmers colleges and universities University of Idaho nurses fighting hospitals cooking threshing railroads churches automobiles teachers marriage divorce childhood canning and preserving IWW murder working conditions cards dances food doctors
Locations: Fourmile Creek Viola Oregon Moscow Potlatch Washington

Emma Christenson Shirrod Interview #1, 1/21/1975

Topics: Family pioneering and childhood experiences. Family illnesses and deaths. Early Genesee. Her courtship. 1-21-75 2 hr
Subjects: Great Depression Native Americans Prohibition accidents automobiles childhood colleges and universities dating death families farming fires holidays homesteads illness politics stores winter women wool
Locations: Jansville Genesee Walla Walla Washington Lewiston

Ulysses Showalter Interview #1, 2/4/1974

Topics: Moonshining experiences. Impact of prohibition. Cutting cordwood. Fighting. Poker. 2-4-74 1 hr 25p RM
Subjects: Prohibition drinking families gambling logging logging camps moonshine moving saloons sewing sports threshing timber women
Locations: Moscow Mountain Moscow

Carol Ryrie BRINK (b. 1895)

Residence: Moscow
Occupation: Novelist homemaker. Caddie Woodlawn won the Newberry Award Buffalo Coat Snow in the River and Strangers in the Forest are filled with detail about early local life
Family Origin: Grandfather was a Moscow doctor (1887) trained in Missouri; Father came from Scotland (1889)

Ruby Canfield WHEELER (b. 1893)

Residence: Harvard
Family Origin: Parents came from Massachusettes and New Jersey (1877)

Florence Hupp INGLE (b. 1884)

Residence: Big Bear Ridge Little Bear Ridge Kendrick
Occupation: Teacher farm wife
Family Origin: Family came from California and homesteaded (1886)

Abe MacGregor GOFF (b. 1899)

Residence: Moscow Washington D.C.
Occupation: Lawyer state legislator U.S. Congressman chairman of Interstate Commerce Commission
Family Origin: Moved to Moscow to attend university; father homesteaded near Rosalia,Wash

Axel Anderson Interview #1, 7/23/1974

Topics: First experiences in America. Beginning work for Potlatch. Preparing Elk River millsite and townsite (1909). Foreman for 350 men. Severe flooding of St.Joe River (1933). 7-23-74 2.5 hr 58p SS&LS
Subjects: CCC Great Depression IWW Irish-American Norwegian-American death farmers floods harvest holidays homesteads immigrants livestock logging logging camps lumber lumberjacks mills mining railroads sawmills
Locations: Bovill Elk River Spokane Wallace Clarkia

Emmett and Anna Utt Interview #5, 11/14/1975

Topics: Her work as servant girl on Potlatch Nob Hill. Class snobbery and self-made men. Dating and marriage. Depression days. Gas rationing. Relation of country people to Potlatch. 11-14-75 2.3 hr 58p
Subjects: Great Depression automobiles boardinghouses colleges and universities dances dating electricity families farming hunting immigrants mills politics poor presidents schools shivarees teaching weddings winter world wars
Locations: Potlatch

Joe MALONEY (b. 1892)

Residence: Spokane North Idaho
Occupation: Employment agent camp foreman
Family Origin: Came from Pennsylvania in 1915

Curtis Presby Interview #1, 6/16/1975

Topics: With Astrid Presby (wife) Making a living in early days. Neighboring. Self-doctoring. (Interview donated by Marilyn Chaney). no date 1 hr Marilyn Chaney
Subjects: butchering dances death doctors families fishing homesteads hunting orchards railroads roads sawmills sports teachers telephones women
Locations: Coeur d'Alene Viola Lewiston

Joseph Holland Interview #1, 7/25/1974

Topics: Bovill's way of life. Experiences as depot agent and judge. Relief in the depression. Lumberjacks and extra gangs. Pat Malone. Leo Guilfoy's humor. 7-25-74 2 hr 41p
Subjects: winter horses lumberjacks railroads Great Depression CCC gardens stores police officers children funerals alcohol bootlegging drinking Prohibition saloons sports death childbirth doctors accidents sheep Basque lore
Locations: Bovill Elk River Clarkia Washington Moscow

Oscar Johnson Interview #1, 10/1/1976

Topics: Work for firebrick company. Early Troy. Father's life 10-1-76 .7 hr
Subjects: Great Depression banks childbirth death families farming foremen immigrants schools
Locations: Troy

Melvin CARLSON (b. 1906)

Residence: Big Meadow Troy
Occupation: Logger farmer
Family Origin: Family came from North Dakota (1912)

George Torgerson Interview #1, 5/17/1976

Topics: Homesteaders around Elk River. Prosperity of Elk River; devastating impact of mill removal. Settlement at Park. Moving from Elk River. 5-17-76 2 hr
Subjects: African Americans IWW Prohibition automobiles banks brothels chores churches drinking families fires homesteads immigrants languages logging camps mills moonshine pioneers post offices roads stores strikes threshing timber winter
Locations: Park Deary Potlatch Elk River

Jennie Cuthbert Brouillard Interview #2 (w/ Fannie Byers and Brouillard), 1976

Topics: and Jennie Brouillard (sister). Nursing in a field hospital in France in World War I. Women's work in harvest and processing. Farm self-sufficiency. Viola Community Club. Impact of Adventists. Effects of school consolidation. 11-5-76 2.8 hr 7ip
Subjects: nursing world wars women farming harvesting religion schools clubs farmers colleges and universities University of Idaho nurses fighting hospitals cooking threshing railroads churches automobiles teachers marriage divorce childhood canning and preserving IWW murder working conditions cards dances food doctors
Locations: Fourmile Creek Viola Oregon Moscow Potlatch Washington

Jennie Halverson Driscoll Interview #1, 2/17/1976

Topics: Parents' struggle to build farm. Mother's death; caring for family as a girl. Enjoyments and neighboring. Genesee. Why parents left Astoria. The thirties. Pioneering of Driscoll Ridge. 2-17-76 1.5 hr 26p
Subjects: African-Americans Great Depression Norwegian-American banks churches dances dances death families farming homemakers homesteads immigrants lumber miscarriage nursing parties politics sewing women
Locations: Genesee Lenville Driscoll Ridge

Edward SWENSON (b. 1883)

Residence: Park Alberta
Occupation: Farmer carpenter
Family Origin: Family emigrated from Norway and homesteaded (1891)

Frank Milbert Interview #2, 06/20/1975 (transcript only)

Topics: Dowsing for gold. Stories about local miners. Promoters. How gold spurred early settlement. Gold mining in the twenties. Dredging the Palouse River. Nature of gold miners. 6-20-75 3 hr 58p
Subjects: mining gold dredging miners homesteads
Locations: Potlatch Gold Hill Palouse

Byers Sanderson Interview #2, 11/13/1975

Topics: IWW, poor conditions and company tactics. Suffering of families in the depression. Bill Deary; Hugh Bovill. 11-13-75 1.4 hr 29p
Subjects: CCC IWW death fires foremen homesteads illness living conditions logging logging camps lumberjacks mills rodeos sawmills stores women world wars
Locations: Bovill Elk River Lewiston

Edward Swenson Interview #4, 8/10/1976

Topics: Relationship of children to parents. Community socializing and religion. Problems with church doctrines; spirit experiences. Farming struggle near Wainwright, Alberta (1918-1925). Decline of Park. 8-10-76 2.5 hr 50p
Subjects: accidents armed forces banks boardinghouses carpentry children churches crops dances dating death drinking education families farming holidays illness livestock lore music religion schools women
Locations: Park Nora Creek Central Ridge Canada

Lena (Molly) Erickson Justice Interview #1, 8/20/1974

Topics: Work of flunkeys. Attitudes towards women in the camps; good and bad horses. Family homesteading struggle. 8-20-74 .8 hr LS
Subjects: cooking flunkeying food gardens logging camps lumberjacks mess halls railroads schools winter women workers world wars
Locations: Bovill Deary Kendrick

Ada Oylear Schoeffler Interview #1, 2/7/1976

Topics: Hard work on farm and in harvest. Childbirth. Parents. German ways. Caring for children. Housekeeping. 2-7-76 1.3 hr KP
Subjects: accidents childbirth children chores cooking dating death dentists education families holidays homesteads housekeeping illness languages mess halls midwives post offices pregnancy roads schools telephones threshing tractors world wars
Locations: Moscow Potlatch Ridge Juliaetta

Gus GAMBLE (b. 1890)

Residence: Genesee Paradise Ridge
Occupation: Farmer
Family Origin: Daniel Gamble's brother

Violet Frei Boag Interview #1, 10/15/1976

Topics: Slabtown and Collins. 1914 fire. Advantages of moving to Moscow. Becoming a nurse. 10-15-76 1.4 hr
Subjects: Great Depression children colleges and universities dances drinking education forest fires friendship medicine moving nurses religion rural communities schools world wars
Locations: Bovill Moscow Camp 8 Spokane

Merton WATERMAN (b. 1896)

Residence: Moscow
Occupation: Mail carrier laborer farmer
Family Origin: Parents came from Illinois via Texas (1910)

Marie Leitch Fisher Interview #1, 10/29/1975

Topics: Life of single teacher in the twenties. Bovill social activities Teaching methods and experiences. Town characters. Depression in Bovill. 10-29-75 2.6 hr p
Subjects: teachers normal schools teaching families cards dances churches weddings boardinghouses police officers lore women drinking religion holidays clothing automobiles winter banks CCC hunting Great Depression plays movies morality politics mentally handicapped students marriage University of Idaho education lumberjacks
Locations: Bovill Moscow Lewiston

Gerald Ingle Interview #1, 10/7/1976

Topics: County school consolidation. Community life on the ridge. Father and grandfather. Depression and bank closure. Growing up; attending the university. Attitudes as a public official. 10-7-76 2.7 hr p
Subjects: African Americans Great Depression IWW University of Idaho banks chores churches cooperatives dances drinking education families farmers farming fires fraternities games grange halls holidays homemakers homesteads neighbors politics schools sports threshing winter world wars
Locations: Big Bear Ridge Little Bear Ridge Moscow Juliaetta Kendrick Viola

Sister Mary CHRISTINA (b. 1899)

Residence: Beaverton(Oregon)
Occupation: Nun. She helped care for Mary McConnell Borah at the Maryville home
Family Origin: unknown

John (Dick) Benge Interview #4, 4/27/1976

Topics: With Peggy Schott (daughter) Depression experiences: hardships, selling produce, parties, canning, credit. Her work: sawmilling, clearing land, cooking. Woods work. Home improvements. School plays. 4-27-76 3.5 hr 75p
Subjects: Great Depression IWW alcohol blacksmiths children clothing cooking dances dating families farming foremen fraternities gardens gyppos holidays illness logging logging camps medicine mills neighbors plays religion schools sororities tractors women working conditions
Locations: Hatter Creek Princeton Potlatch

Nellie Edwin Sweeney Interview #1, 7/3/1974

Topics: Grandfather's works and closeness to God. Stories about swearing and religion. Teaching experiences. 7-3-74 1 hr 10p LS
Subjects: Psychiana Swedish Americans children churches death families homesteads illness immigrants languages lore music normal schools religion schools teachers teaching women
Locations: Lewiston Moscow Driscoll Ridge

John (Dick) Benge Interview #2, 5/3/1974

Topics: With Art Farley (friend) Playing jokes on neighbors: shivarees and chicken stealing. Feuding. Keeping peace at town dances. Secrets of water witching and well digging. Decline of land through misuse. 5-3-74 2.2 hr 49p
Subjects: dances drinking farming fighting guns logging camps lore shivarees thieves timber water winter women
Locations: Hatter Creek Princeton Potlatch

Harry SAMPSON (b. 1893)

Residence: Moscow
Occupation: Manager of men's clothing department at David's Department Store for nearly forty years
Family Origin: Family came from Wisconsin in 1902

Edward RAMSDALE (b. 1896)

Residence: American Ridge Troy
Occupation: Farmer
Family Origin: Emigrated from Eikefjord, Norway (1913)

Frances Vaughan Fry Interview #2, 2/18/1977

Topics: Her work to make ends meet. Raising children. Neighborhood life, Severe winters. 2-18-77 2 hr 55p
Subjects: Great Depression Native Americans childbirth childhood children chores concentration camps cooking families farming fires food games homemakers horses livestock logging camps moving neighbors newspapers parties winter women working conditions world wars
Locations: Kendrick Cedar Creek

F. Marvin Long Interview #3, 2/27/1976

Topics: Leland as a thriving town. Failure of family fruit ranch. Starting business in Kendrick. Early Kendrick; Gene Chinaman. 2-27-76 1 hr Lee Magnuson
Subjects: factories fires moving stores winter
Locations: Kendrick Leland

John DIAMANTIS (b. 1885)

Residence: Elk River
Occupation: Sawmiller logger
Family Origin: Emigrated from Klitsos, Greece in 1909

Arthur Bjerke Interview #1, 8/15/1973

Topics: Herding cattle in meadow rangelands. Experiences with Nez Perces. Family homesteading. Neighbors. Construction of WISM. Father's accident and death. 8-15-73 1.5 hr 19p
Subjects: African-Americans Native Americans accidents childhood death families farming food funerals homesteads hunting immigrants languages murders railroads schools
Locations: Deary

Henry Benson Interview #1, 5/15/1974

Topics: With Nina Seybold (sister) Unsafe railroad bridges; a major derailment. Support of IWWs and hoboes. Family homesteading. Joe Wells family. 5-15-74 1 hr
Subjects: African-Americans IWW Native Americans churches holidays homesteads illness mills railroads religion schools unions world wars
Locations: Potlatch Deary

Albert PIERCE (b. 1889)

Residence: Deary Texas Ridge
Occupation: Operated Deary store and farmed
Family Origin: Moved from Minnesota with family (1904)

Clara Payne Grove Interview #5, 5/11/1976

Topics: The management of marriage. Opposition to divorce. Fundamental values. Working as a woman. Overabundance of wealth in America. 5-11-76 2 hr 38p
Subjects: local histories politics Christians marriage families pregnancy University of Idaho schools students suicide churches divorce women morality homemakers businesses newspapers drinking
Locations: Moscow Troy

Lillian Woodworth Otness Interview #2, 1/16/1975

Topics: Inequality of women in work and marriage. Deficiencies of early college teaching. Mother's character. A divisive revival. Flu and Red Cross in World War I. School, reading, Campfire Girl activities. 1-16-75 2 hr 40p
Subjects: University of Idaho automobiles clothing clubs colleges and universities dances dating discrimination drinking education families farming marriage moonshine prohibition school teachers schools women
Locations: Moscow

Hattie Wilken Johnson Interview #1, 8/4/1976

Topics: Family work and neighboring. Anti-German wartime sentiment. German Lutheran Church and language. Feeding threshing crews. Work at Portland's Multnomah Hotel. 8-4-76 2.5 hr p
Subjects: German Americans Prohibition accidents bees childhood chores churches cooling customs dances death families farming flags food games hotels illness knitting languages livestock maids medicine newspapers parties religion roads schools wine women world wars
Locations: Kendrick Cameron Leland Walla Walla Washington Oregon

William Kauder Interview #1, 2/13/1974

Topics: 1893 depression. Getting settled; help from neighbors. Political views of 1890's. Entertainment. Land clearing. Kendrick. 2-13-74 1 hr 16p RM
Subjects: Native Americans bears churches dances farming fires food holidays homesteads hotels literary moving parties politics presidents wagons winter
Locations: Southwick Kendrick Gold Hill

John (Dick) BENGE (b. 1894)

Residence: Hatter Creek Princeton
Occupation: Lumberjack
Family Origin: Moved from Nebraska with family in 1913

Roy Martin Interview #1, 07/02/1976 (transcript only)

Topics: Panhandling. Riding freights. Friendships with partners. Wintering with wealth in Spokane. Camp-inspecting. Floating population. IWW protection of workers. Woods, mine and harvest work. Serving in Philippines. 7-2-76 3.6 hr 71p
Subjects: hobos lumberjacks labor iww railroads prostitutes logging camps mining logging armed forces
Locations: Spokane North Idaho Phillipines

Nellie Wood Smith Interview #2, 9/10/1975

Topics: Charlotte Bovill and family. Arson and murder in Bovill fire. First Bovill school (1907). Get-togethers. Raising children; getting married. Community church. Ladies of the night. 9-10-75 2 hr 38p
Subjects: arson boardinghouses childhood children chores churches dances dating families family life education fires homesteads illness movies murders music prostitutes railroads stores teachers timber women world wars
Locations: Bovill McGary Butte

Frank BROCKE (b. 1906)

Residence: Troy American Ridge Kendrick
Occupation: President of First Bank of Troy where he worked for forty-seven years chairman of school board
Family Origin: Parents' families came from Germany; father was born at Genesee, mother in Kansas

Floyd & Nola Lawrence Interview #2, 1/27/1976

Topics: With Carl Lancaster (brother-in-law) and Laura May Lancaster (sister-in-law) Neighborliness and poverty of homesteaders. Local inventors. Cattle on open range. Working when young. Malker Anderson. 1-27-76 2.2 hr P
Subjects: accidents childbirth childhood children chores churches clothing dances drinking farming homesteads illness logging camps lumberjacks sewing suicide timber winter women
Locations: Jansville Helmer McGary Butte Texas Ridge Deary Central Ridge Juliaetta

Rudolph NORDBY (b. 1889)

Residence: Cow Creek Genesee
Occupation: County commissioner for eighteen years farmer
Family Origin: Family came from Iowa (1900)

William (Michigan Bill) Stowell Interview #1, 10/29/1975

Topics: Clearwater River log drives: wanigans, pilots, drownings. Tramp lumberjacks; wide open towns. IWW's and direct action. Foremen and gyppo logging. 10-29-75 2 hr 43p
Subjects: logging logging camps IWW strikes lumberjacks gyppos sawmills fighting foremen working conditions rivers death bootlegging
Locations: Michigan Bovill Clearwater River

J. Les and Marie J. Clark Interview #1, 7/9/1976

Topics: Growing up in Elk River. Town social life and cultural groups. Apprentice ship of a printer; Elk River print shop. Tramp printers. Leaving Elk River; loss of mill. 7-9-76 3.5 hr
Subjects: Great Depression IWW Ku Kux Klan Psychiana accidents automobiles businesses butchering childhood children churches dances dating death families fires flunkeying games holidays illness immigrants mills movies music newspapers picnics railroads religion schools sports stores students teachers timber unions winter women working conditions world wars
Locations: Elk River Oregon Lewiston Moscow Colfax Helmer Park

Nellie Wood Smith Interview #3, 9/22/1975

Topics: Birth of first child; lore of childbirth. Death of baby daughter. Learning sewing and needlework. 9-22-75 1.5 hr 33p
Subjects: CCC babies childbirth clothing crafts crafts death doctors families homemakers hospitals nurses pregnancy sewing women
Locations: Bovill McGary Butte

Anna Marie Anderson OSLUND (b. 1891)

Residence: Troy Nora Creek
Occupation: Teacher homemaker author of manuscript on Troy area history
Family Origin: Emigrated from Sweden with family in 1903

George LEPARD (b. 1899)

Residence: Potlatch
Occupation: Grocer
Family Origin: Family came in 1906 after living elsewhere in North Idaho

James & Amelia Bacca Interview #1, 9/24/1976

Topics: Adaptation to America. Subsistence living near Trent, Italy; local interest in America. Depression struggle. Coal mining in Wyoming; settling in Potlatch. Other Onaway Italians. 9-24-76 2.6 hr 60p
Subjects: Great Depression accidents bootlegging churches cooking death education families fire fighters friendship gyppos illness immigrants languages mills nurses roads unions wine winter women
Locations: Onaway Potlatch Italy Elk River

Kenneth Wilkins Interview #1, 6/23/1975

Topics: With Dorothy Wilkins (wife) Homesteading without cash. Pioneer Avon community; impact of early county development. Lumbercamp conditions. Mica mining. Bee trees. Reversion to pioneering in depression. 6-23-75 2.5 hr
Subjects: African Americans Great Depression IWW Native Americans Swedish Americans accidents animals automobiles death farming food holidays homesteads logging camps lumber lumberjacks murders railroads suicide unions
Locations: Avon Colfax

Louis Boas Interview #1, 7/30/1976

Topics: Dean French and university social relationships. Faculty, students, and school traditions. Limited opportunities for women. State education. Work as Boise city editor. 7-30-76 1.7 hr p
Subjects: University of Idaho churches fraternities movies newspapers pregnancy professors railroads sports students women
Locations: Boise Moscow

Elsie NELSON (b. 1890)

Residence: Moscow
Occupation: Head cook at Hotel Moscow teacher author of Today Is Ours
Family Origin: Parents were Swedish homesteaders (1886)

F. Marvin Long Interview #2, 7/10/1973

Topics: Kendrick fire (1904). Tramway and brick factory. Ice cutting. 7-10-73 .5 hr RM
Subjects: bricks fires moving stores winter
Locations: Kendrick Leland

Norla Callison Interview #3, 1/24/1974

Topics: With Walter Benscoter Fights and local politicking. Farmer co-ops. Depressions. Desire to secede from Idaho. Neighbors. 1-24-74 1 hr RM
Subjects: winter orchards sports schools farming schools dances granaries churches prohibition holidays weddings dances threshing families Prohibition alcohol homesteads water crops
Locations: Kendrick Troy American Ridge

Charles JELLEBERG (b. 1900)

Residence: Park
Occupation: Horse teamster sawmiller
Family Origin: Parents were Norwegian homesteaders (c. 1890)

Anna Vivan Hise CRAIG (b. 1887)

Residence: Moscow
Occupation: Teacher homemaker
Family Origin: Came to South Idaho from Nebraska (1907), and after marriage to Orofino and Moscow

Oscar JOHNSON (b. 1901)

Residence: Troy
Occupation: Worked at firebrick plant for forty years
Family Origin: Came with father from Sweden in 1910

Archie CLARK (b. 1886)

Residence: Potlatch
Occupation: Farm laborer
Family Origin: Came from the Midwest in 1904. Rosie Clark's husband

John B. MILLER (b. 1912)

Residence: Bovill
Occupation: Geologist author of The Trees Grew Tall (1972) Bovill area history
Family Origin: Parents came from Minnesota (1902)

Edward Halseth Interview #1, 12/20/1974

Topics: Homesteading and local happenings. Frontier hardships in Montana. 12-20-74 1 hr
Subjects: IWW accidents bears brothels churches death drinking farming farms fights food holidays homesteads illness immigrants lore miners mines mining murders saloons sawmills schools stores voting winter women
Locations: Jansville Big Bear Ridge Anderson Hog Meadows Genesee Montana

Marie Leitch FISHER (b. 1900)

Residence: Bovill
Occupation: Teacher homemaker
Family Origin: Grewup at Nezperce, Idaho

John Sanderson Interview #1, 6/15/1975

Topics: Stories about Bill Deary, Pat Malone, Mrs. T.P. Jones. Local killings. Life in lumbercamps and early Bovill. Houses of ill-repute. Force in the classroom. 7-25-75 2.1 hr
Subjects: brothels logging camps lore murders schools women
Locations: Bovill

Mabel Oliver HAZELTINE (b. 1901)

Residence: Fourmile Creek Viola
Occupation: Farm wife
Family Origin: Parents came from Sprague, Washington area (1901)

Ella Olson OLSON (b. 1897)

Residence: Pleasant Hill Troy
Occupation: Cook pea processor housekeeper homemaker
Family Origin: Father came from Sweden (1884), mother fromNorway (1887)

Leo GUILFOY (b. 1886)

Residence: Bovill
Occupation: Scaler and treating plant operator at cedar pole yard
Family Origin: An Irishman, he came from England in 1916

Albert Pierce Interview #1, 8/22/1974

Topics: Deary townsite and fire. Problems of a general store. Old homesteaders Two murders. Family moves. Potlatch manipulations. 8-22-74 1.6 hr
Subjects: African Americans Native Americans blacksmiths businesses children death families farmers farms fires holidays homesteads horses literary logging mills neighbors railroads saloons stores timber world wars
Locations: Deary Texas Ridge Kendrick

Arthur Bjerke Interview #4, 5/30/1975

Topics: Joe Wells family. Two killings. Impact of Potlatch Lumber Company. Signs of weather, planting, and reproduction. Fruitless mining operations Spring floods. 5-30-75 2.2 hr 27p
Subjects: African Americans IWW Native Americans banks churches dances death education fighting fishing floods friendship homesteads immigrants knitting livestock logging lore music neighbors rape schools strikes suicide teachers timber winter women
Locations: Deary Bovill Big Bear Ridge

Martha Lowery Long Interview #2, 11/18/1976

Topics: With Marvin Long (husband) Work as home extension agent in the depression. Conditions of Chelan County people in the depression. Work as state clothing specialist. Teaching at Culdesac; other jobs. The Long house. Kendrick's hobo. Long mercantile store. 11-18-76 3 hr 85p
Subjects: Ku Kux Klan authors automobiles boardinghouses businesses butchering canning and preserving churches clothing clubs colleges and universities cooking crafts death education families home economics homemakers lore mansions marriage newspapers orchards rural communities schools sewing stores teachers teaching winter women world wars
Locations: Pullman Culdesac Washington Kendrick

William (Dave) Hickman Interview #1 (w/ cousins Tom and Kenneth Platt), 12/3/1974

Topics: With William Hickman (cousin), Kenneth Piatt (brother) Introduction of purebred Herefords by Piatt brothers (1896). Livestock operation at Genesee and Salmon Rivers; hardship in winter of 1919. Salmon homesteading. Settlement of Genesee area. Horse show and rodeo. Livery business. 12-3-74 2.5 hr p
Subjects: Great Depression IWW Native Americans businesses families farming fires homesteads horses liveries livestock moonshine railroads religion rodeos winter world wars
Locations: Genesee Salmon River

Helmer Ringsage Interview #1, 2/12/1976

Topics: Mother's death. Woods work in winter. Raising crops and hogs. Hard living at Park (1924-32). Serious accidents. 2-12-76 1.9 hr 49p
Subjects: accidents banks cooking death families farming ferries fires harvesting illness livestock logging camps miscarriages moving rivers sawmills timber winter
Locations: Helmer Moscow Central Ridge Potlatch Park

Frank Milbert Interview #1, 06/18/1975 (transcript only)

Topics: Discovery of Gold Hill gold (1861). Gold Creek rush (1868). Gold rush life. Carrico family mining. Persecution of Chinese miners. Lost Wheelbarrow Mine. Park Shattuck's mining experiences. 6-18-75 2.5 hr 54p
Subjects: mining gold Chinese Americans miners
Locations: Potlatch Gold Hill

Edward Swenson Interview #2, 7/2/1974

Topics: Park back country: wild game, camping, Nez Perces. Building church; celebrating Christmas. Homestead work. Saloons. Lack of opportunity at Park. 7-2-74 2 hr 36p
Subjects: Native Americans Norwegian Americans canning and preserving cards children churches construction drinking families fishing harvesting holidays homesteads hunting languages logging camps mines police officers railroads saloons schools timber water winter
Locations: Park Avon Troy Elk River

Clarice Moody SAMPSON (b. 1894)

Residence: Moscow
Occupation: Homemaker teacher clerk at David's Store
Family Origin: Parents came from Utah (1892)

Grace Jain WICKS (b. 1906)

Residence: Genesee Coyote Grade
Occupation: County commissioner and civic leader homemaker
Family Origin: Father's family came from Wisconsin (1878), mother's from Michigan (1892)

Mamie Sisk Wurman Interview #1, 6/24/1975

Topics: With Mary West Lynd (friend), Mamie Sardam Munden (niece), and Glen Gilder (friend. Keeping home and raising children; closeness of family unit. Community get-togethers. Home doctoring. Difficult farming experiences. Lack of conveniences. Girls' work. 6-24-75 2.4 hr p
Subjects: Native Americans butchering childbirth children chores clothing dances dating divorce families food homesteads illness illness isolation literary logging lumberjacks marriage medicine midwives newspapers parties schools sewing telephones timber women
Locations: Princeton Palouse Potlatch

Emmett and Anna Utt Interview #3, 8/10/1973

Topics: Sympathy for Indians as a boy. Murders of Chinese miners and a tramp. Persecution of an ex-thief. IWW sabotage to pressure company. Gypsies; bootleggers; the Klan. New-fangled machinery. Demise of forest wilderness. 8-10-73 1.6 hr 43p
Subjects: Chinese Americans Great Depression IWW Ku Klux Klan Native Americans automobiles bootlegging drinking farming fishing holidays horses immigrants lore mining murders police officers sports thieves wilderness women working conditions
Locations: Elk River Potlatch Palouse

May Erickson LEMARR (b. 1907)

Residence: Hog Meadows
Occupation: Logging camp flunkey homemaker
Family Origin: unknown

Oscar & Hazel Olson Interview #1, 6/16/1976

Topics: Living in a lumbercamp. Pleasures of flunkeying. Violent Pierce strike (1936). Lumberjack nicknames. Unmarried women teachers. Father's mistreatment in Sweden. Depression hardships. 6-16-76 2 hr
Subjects: African Americans Great Depression IWW childhood cooking dances death drinking education families fighting fires flunkeying foremen gyppos homesteads illness immigrants logging camps lore lumberjacks marriage mess halls rural schools stores strikes teachers teaching women world wars
Locations: Deary

John (Dick) Benge Interview #1, 7/17/1973

Topics: Logging life. IWW strike for better conditions. Deputy Pat Malone preacher Dick Ferrell. Trading and neighboring in the depression. Advantages of Idaho farming over Nebraska. Problems with bosses. 7-17-73 2.1 hr 55p
Subjects: Great Depression IWW accidents cards drinking families farming fires friendship gambling logging lumberjacks moonshine police officers railroads strikes working conditions world wars
Locations: Hatter Creek Princeton Moscow Moscow Mountain

Willa Cummings Carlson Interview #2, 4/30/1974

Topics: With Mavis Lee Utley Marshall Hays and family. Fannie and Al Roberts. J.P.Vollmer, the millionaire. Schooling and reading as a youngster. 4-30-74 2 hr 38p
Subjects: automobiles brothels marriage politics railroads rape rural schools schools women
Locations: American Ridge Troy

Arthur Sundberg Interview #5, 8/7/1975

Topics: Mill safety problems. Company management of town. Cooperation in the depression. Worker stagnation; character of Nob Hill. Power transmission in mill. 8-7-75 3 hr p
Subjects: mills sawmills logging foremen alcohol Great Depression CCC poor drinking women neighbors lumber families dances accidents death
Locations: Potlatch

Ima Hodge Platz Interview #1, 2/19/1975

Topics: Cooking for harvest crew. Art of shocking and threshing grain. 2-19-75 .6 hr
Subjects: chores farming threshing women
Locations: Palouse Viola

Rosie Hecks CLARK (b. 1893)

Residence: Deep Creek Potlatch
Occupation: Kitchen worker farm wife
Family Origin: Family moved from Missouri (1899)

Byers SANDERSON (b. 1896)

Residence: Bovill
Occupation: Head mechanic for Potlatch Lumber Company miner
Family Origin: Father came from the South and was Potlatch assistant superintendent; mother came from New York (1880's)

Jennie Cuthbert BROUILLARD (b. 1886)

Residence: Viola
Occupation: Nurse homemaker
Family Origin: unknown

Willa Cummings CARLSON (b. 1896)

Residence: American Ridge Troy
Occupation: Teacher and farm wife author of manuscript on Latah County history
Family Origin: Parents came from Missouri (early 1890's)

J. Les and Marie J. Clark (b. 1904)

Residence: Elk River
Occupation: Printer
Family Origin: Native of Manitoba, he arrived in 1923

Jennie Halverson DRISCOLL (b. 1888)

Residence: Genesee Lenville Driscoll Ridge
Occupation: Farm wife
Family Origin: Parents homesteaded after emigrating from Norway via Astoria (early 1880's)

Lora Brackett ALBRIGHT (b. 1898)

Residence: Potlatch River Juliaetta
Occupation: Manager of family produce operation teacher farm wife state legislator (1949-50)
Family Origin: Came from Lookout, Idaho (1916), where parents had moved from Minnesota

Lester CROCKER (b. 1899)

Residence: Kendrick
Occupation: Banker
Family Origin: Parents came from Pennsylvania and Kansas (early 1890's)

Nellie Edwin SWEENEY (b. 1883)

Residence: Moscow
Occupation: Teacher pea processor homemaker
Family Origin: Grandfather, Peter Carlson, was the first Swedish Lutheran minister in the area (1870's)

Ione Adair Interview #2, 9/3/1976

Topics: With Bernadine Cornelison. Timber homesteading at Fortynine Meadows; loss of claim. Relationship with parents. Victorian manners and dress. Methodist church and revivals. Prohibition. Family cars. 9-3-76 2 hr 51p
Subjects: Psychiana automobiles churches clothing families fishing holidays homesteads hunting illness mansions music religion timber winter women
Locations: Moscow Bovill Fortynine Meadows

Willa Cummings Carlson Interview #5, 5/20/1974

Topics: Teacher's responsibilities to the community. Mother-in-law's nursing. Views of cultural groups. American Ridge lore. 5-20-74 1.5 hr 25p
Subjects: Native Americans Swedish Americans death holidays midwives nurses racial discrimination telephones women
Locations: American Ridge Troy Burnt Ridge

Archie Clark Interview #1, 4/17/1974

Topics: Coyote hunting. A pet coyote. Training a horse. 4-17-74 1 hr
Subjects: guns hunting winter women
Locations: Potlatch

Kenneth WILKINS (b. 1902)

Residence: Avon
Occupation: Farmer
Family Origin: Grandfather was first homesteader in Avon area (1884), coming from Indiana

George (Hap) Moody Interview #1, 2/28/1974 (transcript only)

Topics: With Bertha Moody (wife) Impersonating lawbreakers. Track downs and arrests. Prohibition drinking and moonshining. Policing strikes; resisting bribes. Cooperation among lawmen. Prisoners and county jail. University football. 2-28-74 2 hr 36p
Subjects: football police officers law enforcement moonshine strikes jaii University of Idaho
Locations: Moscow

Kate Sanderson Waldron Interview #2, 8/25/1976

Topics: Family closeness. Clerking a failing business. Meeting husband. Divine healing. Bible study; Ladies' Aid. Opposition to swearing. 8-25-76 2 hr p
Subjects: African Americans Christian Great Depression churches dating families friendship illness logging camps marriage religion stores work working
Locations: Bovill Moscow Troy Spokane

Alfred ERICKSON (b. 1893)

Residence: Hog Meadows
Occupation: Railroad worker
Family Origin: Parents came from Minnesota (1892)

Bernadine Adair Cornelison Interview #2 (w/ her sister Ione Adair), 9/3/1976

Topics: With Bernadine Cornelison. Timber homesteading at Fortynine Meadows; loss of claim. Relationship with parents. Victorian manners and dress. Methodist church and revivals. Prohibition. Family cars. 9-3-76 2 hr 51p
Subjects: Psychiana automobiles churches clothing families fishing holidays homesteads hunting illness mansions music religion timber winter women
Locations: Moscow Bovill Fortynine Meadows

Frank Brocke Interview #3, 1/7/1976

Topics: Roles of small town banker. Credit and confidentiality. Country youngsters. Moonshine and dances. Early banking experience. Family struggle. 1-7-76 1.3 hr 35p
Subjects: banks drinking rural communities
Locations: Troy Kendrick

Mamie Sardam Munden Interview #1 (w/ Aunt Mamie Wurman and others), 6/24/1975

Topics: With Mary West Lynd (friend), Mamie Sardam Munden (niece), and Glen Gilder (friend. Keeping home and raising children; closeness of family unit. Community get-togethers. Home doctoring. Difficult farming experiences. Lack of conveniences. Girls' work. 6-24-75 2.4 hr p
Subjects: Native Americans butchering childbirth children chores clothing dances dating divorce families food homesteads illness illness isolation literary logging lumberjacks marriage medicine midwives newspapers parties schools sewing telephones timber women
Locations: Princeton Palouse Potlatch

Mamie Sardam MUNDEN (b. 1906)

Residence: Lewiston Clarkston
Occupation: Farm wife
Family Origin: Mother's family came from Missouri (1886), father from Nebraska (c. 1894

Arthur Sundberg Interview #2, 7/18/1975

Topics: Early working conditions in Potlatch mill. Attitudes towards foreign workers. Mill joking and sign language. Operation of mill equipment. 7-18-75 2.5 hr 49p
Subjects: Greek Americans Japanese Americans fighting food immigrants logging logging camps mess halls mills sign language timber winter workers world wars
Locations: Potlatch

Catherine Mahon Interview #2, 9/28/1976

Topics: Grandparents' experiences and attitudes; old standards of morality, Lives of prostitutes in Lewiston. J.P. Vollmer and early Lewiston wealth. Dr. Foster and Juliaetta. Mother's sickness as a girl. Cannery and war shortages. Family politics. 9-27-76 3.5 hr 84p
Subjects: CCC Prohibition University of Idaho WCTU bootlegging brothels businesses canneries children death divorce doctors drinking families finances food hospitals illness medicine moving orchards politics pregnancy presidents prostitutes saloons teachers telephones women women's rights world wards
Locations: Juliaetta Lewiston-Clarkston

Carl Olson Interview #3, 11/8/1973

Topics: More local characters. Impact of depression. Blaming smut fires on IWW. How environment shapes people. Unusual personal experiences. Social problems. City council. 11-8-73 2 hr 40p
Subjects: Great Depression IWW automobiles families homesteads isolation lore miners politics railroads roads sawmills strikes suicide unions world wars
Locations: Dry Ridge Troy Bear Creek

Leo Guilfoy Interview #1, 12/10/1973

Topics: others. Bear stories. Experiences as scoutmaster. Bovill electric plant and movie house. Cedar pole work. 12-10-73 1.5 hr 42p
Subjects: alcohol bears bootlegging electricity families jails logging logging camps lore lumberjacks movies police officers railroads timber
Locations: Bovill

Helena Cartwright Carlson Interview #2, 7/20/1975

Topics: Community activities: picnics, parties, school programs. Opposition to school consolidation. Older girls' work. 7-20-75 1 hr KP
Subjects: accidents childbirth children chores churches clothing cooking dances dating death families family life education farming fishing food literary music newspaper pregnancy servants threshing wagons winter women working conditions world wars
Locations: Big Meadow Troy Spokane Genesee Burnt Ridge

Ruby Canfield Wheeler Interview #1, 4/9/1974

Topics: Palouse River town life. Entertainment for young. Woods camping. Homestead practices. 4-9-74 1.7 hr 10p LS
Subjects: Chinese-Americans Native Americans businesses camping children chores drinking families farming fishing food holidays horses hotels logging miners music parties politics schools sports timber winter world wars
Locations: Harvard Princeton Potlatch

George Mckeever Interview #1, 8/4/1976

Topics: Practicing dentistry in Kendrick. Kendrick founding, fire and flood, Hard work as youth. Chinese in Kendrick. Masonic Lodge. Advantages of small town. 8-4-76 2 hr
Subjects: Chinese Americans Ku Kux Klan Native Americans armed forces blacksmiths businesses chores clubs colleges and universities dentistry education families farming fires floods medicine moonshine newspapers poor sports students women
Locations: Kendrick Moscow

Andrew COX (b. 1902)

Residence: American Ridge Juliaetta
Occupation: Farmer
Family Origin: Parents came from Nova Scotia in the 1890's

Bernadine Adair Cornelison Interview #3 (w/ her sister Ione Adair), 11/16/1976

Topics: With Bernadine Cornelison. Family life in the McConnell mansion. Father's medical practice; friendship with Nez Perce. Mother's poor health and optimism. Family move to Moscow. Reading club. Bovill fishing. 11-16-76 2.4 hr 62p
Subjects: Native Americans bankruptcy churches colleges and universities fishing holidays illness mansions music professors religion winter women
Locations: Moscow Bovill Fortynine Meadows Elk River

Naomi Boll Parker Interview #1, 9/1/1976

Topics: Family values and closeness. Fire of 1910 on homestead. 1914 Bovill fire. Community solidarity. Catholicism in Bovill. East European lumberjacks. Mildred Wells. Hunting. School consolidation; Bovill's decline. 9-1-76 3 hr 80p
Subjects: fires homesteads families firefighters forest fires railroads women water gardens mules horses hunting isolation carpentry electricity telephones schools parties Great Depression religion churches immigrants lumberjacks lore Ku Kux Klan IWW children flunkeying post offices stores marriage homemakers automobiles smoking drinking dances dating picnics timber logging CCC poor livestock butchering clubs violence politics
Locations: Bovill Palouse Big Bear Ridge Little Bear Ridge Helmer Elk River Deary

Frank HERZOG (b. 1898)

Residence: Harvard
Occupation: Logger farmer trapper
Family Origin: Came with parents from Pennsylvania in 1900

Frank Herzog Interview #2, 7/18/1975

Topics: Trapping bear, coyotes and mink. Changing population of game animals. Lumberjack life: risks, fighting, drinking. Family's work Corporate control of country. 7-18-75 2 hr
Subjects: trapping bears families accidents farming logging camps fighting saloons police officers wine African Americans death funerals illness roads fishing businesses
Locations: Harvard Clarkia Washington Deary

Ima Hodge PLATZ (b. 1888)

Residence: Palouse
Occupation: Harvest cook farm wife
Family Origin: Came from Missouri with parents

Roy MARTIN (b. 1908)

Residence: North Idaho
Occupation: Hobo lumberjack laborer
Family Origin: "Roy Martin" is a pseudonym

Willa Cummings Carlson Interview #4, 5/14/1974

Topics: Social and political views of American Ridgers; racial prejudice and regional divisions. Family adversity: typhoid, house fire, trouble with hired hand. Suspected vigilante hanging. Electioneering. Kendrick fire of 1904. 5-14-74 2.5 hr 48p
Subjects: African Americans IWW discrimination farmers fires lynching politics racial discrimination religion vigilantes women
Locations: American Ridge Troy

Henry BENSON (b. 1894)

Residence: Potlatch Deary
Occupation: Engineer on WISM Railroad
Family Origin: Parents were Deary area homesteaders

Elvon HAMPTON (b. 1911)

Residence: Grey Eagle District Genesee
Occupation: Farmer
Family Origin: Parents came from North Carolina in the late 1880's

Edward Kent Interview #1, 8/10/1976

Topics: With Andrew Cox (half-brother) Farming on American Ridge. Early impressions of Idaho. Cowboy work, Nez Perces on the Potlatch. Juliaetta. Preaching and schools. 8-10-76 1.3 hr
Subjects: CCC Canadians Native Americans churches dances drinking farming horses immigrants moonshine religion schools winter
Locations: American Ridge Juliaetta Kendrick Helmer

William Kauder Interview #3, 6/1/1974

Topics: Struggles of homesteading. Opening reservation to homesteading. Coming west. 6-74 .7 hr p RM
Subjects: Native Americans families farming games gardens homesteads log cabins parties railroads schools threshing winter
Locations: Cedar Ridge Lewiston Southwick

Lena (Molly) Erickson Justice Interview #2, 8/23/1974

Topics: With May LeMarr (sister) Flunkeying and logging camp practices. Isolation and home life. Selling huckleberries. 8-23-74 1 hr LS
Subjects: Native Americans cooking flunkeying food languages logging camps mess halls newspapers religion schools world wars
Locations: Bovill Deary

Otto Schupfer Interview #1, 4/14/1976

Topics: Early telephone service and tramways. Anti-German sentiment in war time. Foster's hospital and Adam's wheat. Experience versus education. Juliaetta cannery. Porter enterprises. 4-14-76 1.8 hr p
Subjects: Great Depression Native Americans automobiles banks businesses canneries churches cooperatives death families fires floods railroads schools sports telephones thieves unions water
Locations: Juliaetta Kendrick Troy Arrow

Ione Adair Interview #4, 1/27/1977

Topics: With Bernadine Cornelison. Mansion grounds and parties. McConnell family background. College experiences. Singing career. l_27-77 2 hr 56p
Subjects: African Americans Native Americans bankruptcy churches colleges and universities mansions music parties schools sororities teaching women
Locations: Moscow Bovill Fortynine Meadows Lewiston University of Idaho

Lola Gamble CLYDE (b. 1900)

Residence: Paradise Ridge Moscow
Occupation: Teacher farm wife local historian frequently addresses groups and aids researchers
Family Origin: Father emigrated from Ireland and became the area's first Presbyterian minister (1880); mother was from Victoria, British Columbia

Nellie Wood SMITH (b. 1892)

Residence: Bovill McGary Butte
Occupation: Homemaker
Family Origin: Came from Missouri with parents, settling in the area c.1900

George (Bud) BUCHANAN (b. 1896)

Residence: Moscow
Occupation: Electrician
Family Origin: Parents' families came from Illinois and Missouri and homesteaded (1870's); he moved to the Coeur d'Alene district as an adult

Eugene Settle Interview #2, 7/7/1975

Topics: Experience in a segregated unit in Europe during World War I. Acceptance in high school. Brother's career in Virginia; father-inlaw's pioneering. Family hay baling operation. 7-7-75 2 hr 38p
Subjects: African Americans armed forces childhood colleges and universities education families farming fighting hay immigrants racial discrimination schools timber world wars
Locations: Aspendale Moscow Troy Bovill

Bernadine Adair CORNELISON (b. 1897)

Residence: Moscow
Occupation: Singer and voice teacher taught at the University of Idaho
Family Origin: unknown

William (Michigan Bill) STOWELL (b. 1903)

Residence: Clearwater River Bovill area
Occupation: Lumberjack
Family Origin: Came in the mid-twenties; father had a farm and sawmill in Quebec

Mahlon Follett Interview #1, 5/3/1976

Topics: Follett's store. Flourishing and decline of Genesee. Socializing in town. Problems with credit. Genesee banks. Moving of townsite. 5-3-76 2 hr
Subjects: Great Depression Native Americans Prohibition armed forces assassinations automobiles banks businesses churches clothing colleges and universities dances drinking families farming moonshine politics presidents roads rural communities sports stores women world wars
Locations: Genesee Moscow Lewiston Troy

Rannie (Ma) Johnson Vine Interview #1, 7/8/1976

Topics: Working at Elk River. Goodness of IWW's. Recovery from tuberculosis Homesteading in eastern Montana. Klan; bootleggers. Closure of mill. Good life at Elk River. 7-8-76 2.3 hr
Subjects: Great Depression IWW Ku Kux Klan bootlegging churches dances death homesteads illness illness medicine moonshine religion strikes suicide work
Locations: Elk River Wisconsin Montana

Bernadine Adair Cornelison Interview #5 (w/ her sister Ione Adair), 2/24/1977

Topics: With Bernadine Cornelison. Women homesteaders in the timber. Experiences of 1910 fire. Friendship with father. Dr. Watkins family. Carrie Bush and Mary Borah. 2-24-77 2.5 hr 59p
Subjects: children divorces drinking fires forest fires homesteads illness illness murders politics railroads suicide teaching women
Locations: Moscow Bovill Fortynine Meadows Wallace

Helena Cartwright CARLSON (b. 1899)

Residence: Big Meadow Troy
Occupation: Teacher homemaker
Family Origin: Came with family from South Dakota (1912)

George TORGERSON (b. 1892)

Residence: Park Elk River
Occupation: Ran drayline did road maintenance farmed
Family Origin: Father was a Norwegian homesteader (c. 1890)

Lora Brackett Albright Interview #1, 4/29/1976

Topics: Experiences in Midwest logging camps as a girl. Family adversity and development of Idaho ranch. Schooling and teaching. Favorite horse. Homesteading rough land near Juliaetta (1918). 4-29-76 2 hr 54p
Subjects: accidents childhood forest fires holidays homesteads horses illness logging logging camps lumberjacks ranching schools teaching weddings women
Locations: Juliaetta Potlatch River Wisconsin

Florence Hupp Ingle Interview #1, 8/22/1973

Topics: Relations among settlers. J.P.Vollmer's bad loan practices. Early communities.. 8-22-73 1 hr 21p RM
Subjects: railroads immigrants families orchards lore churches alcohol banks Swedish Americans drinking schools death accidents women saloons roads pioneers medicine
Locations: Big Bear Ridge Little Bear Ridge Kendrick Troy

Otto SCHUPFER (b. 1891)

Residence: Juliaetta Kendrick
Occupation: Operated local telephone company and theatre helped manage electric service
Family Origin: Herman Schupfer's brother

Oscar & Anna Thomason Interview #2, 3/19/1976

Topics: Family divisions about emigration. Oppression of poor in Sweden. Food shortage following World War I. Logging in Norway and Idaho. Work of Swedish women. Owning a farm. 3-19-76 2.5 hr p
Subjects: Swedish Americans death drinking families farming food languages logging lumberjacks neighbors politics suicide women working conditions world wars yarn
Locations: Dry Ridge Troy Sweden

Emmett and Anna Utt Interview #4, 10/19/1973

Topics: A boy's adventures on horse, bicycle, sled and skates. Competition with a friend. Motorcycling. Coming of cars. Working in Potlatch sawmill: sources of conflict in the crew; art of running saws. 10-19-73 1.9 hr 50p
Subjects: automobilies accidents railroads fights sawmills childhood
Locations: Harvard Princeton Potlatch

Nellie Tomer Handlin Interview #1, 12/17/1973

Topics: Tomers' pioneering. Relations with Nez Perces. Selection of Moscow Cemetery site. School and reading as a girl. 12-17-73 1 hr LS
Subjects: Chinese Americans Native Americans cemeteries death education families farmers farming gambling homesteads horses newspapers railroads schools stores water winter women world wars
Locations: Moscow

Catherine Mahon Interview #1, 8/27/1976

Topics: Limited opportunities for women. Local Jewish families. Books and culture. Southerners in the West. 8-27-76 .8 hr 18p
Subjects: Jewish Americans books churches colleges and universities dating discrimination food friendship hotels housekeeping illness immigrants mail carriers sewing teachers telephones women
Locations: Juliaetta Lewiston Genesee

Helen Kellberg Anderson Interview #2, 6/14/1974

Topics: Good and bad teachers. Neighborhood happenings. Party gatherings. Economizing in the depression. Naivete of young. Shopping in Troy. 6-14-74 1.2 hr p LS
Subjects: Great Depression butchering clothing dances death families food illness parties poetry schools sewing stores teachers telephones
Locations: Moscow Burnt Ridge Troy

Edward Ramsdale Interview #1, 3/20/1975

Topics: Experiences as a newcomer. Growing up in Norway. Connections to Idaho. 3-20-75 1.5 hr 28p
Subjects: butchering childhood children churches families farming friendships homesteads immigrants languages log cabins schools sports winter
Locations: American Ridge Troy Norway

Clarence Johnson Interview #1, 2/8/1974

Topics: 1893 depression; J.P. Vollmer. Early Troy. 2-8-74 .3 hr RM
Subjects: Swedish Americans death homesteads immigrants liveries mining railroads
Locations: Troy Vollmer

Beulah Dollar Herrmann Interview #1, 11/9/1976

Topics: Frank B. Robinson's integrity and his relations in Moscow, Working for Psychianna. 11-9-76 1 hr
Subjects: women Psychiana doctors religion automobiles marriage students clerical workers
Locations: Moscow Troy

Gus Gamble Interview #1, 11/25/1974

Topics: With Lola Clyde (sister) and Bob Clyde (nephew) Stories of Shorty Hill: his brother's lynching; murder on the Twenty-One Ranch. Wild Davey. Homesteading near Elk River (1912) 11-25-74 1.4 hr
Subjects: African Americans death forest fires homesteads livestock lore lynching murders police officers railroads women
Locations: Elk River

Ernest Anderson Interview #1, 6/5/1974

Topics: Hard times in Sweden and Duluth. Play and fights as a boy. Getting started as a farmer. Canyon logging; horse team hauling. Joe Wells. Father's craftsmanship. 6-5-74 1.5 hr
Subjects: African-Americans businesses butchering families farming immigrants knitting logging lumber schools winter world wars
Locations: Burnt Ridge Troy

George SCHMALTZ (b. 1893)

Residence: Elk River
Occupation: Millwright lumberjack
Family Origin: Arrived from Sweden in 1912

Ulysses SHOWALTER (b. 1886)

Residence: Moscow Mountain
Occupation: Woodcutter farmer moonshiner
Family Origin: Family came from Virginia (c.1890)

Helen Kellberg Anderson Interview #1, 6/5/1974

Topics: Tuberculosis and other sicknesses. Growing up on the farm. Women's work. Father's strictness. 6-5-74 1.2 hr 18p LS
Subjects: childhood children families farming holidays homemakers homesteads illness medicine parties railroads schools sewing timber
Locations: Moscow Burnt Ridge Troy

Roy Martin Interview #2, 07/30/1976 (transcript only)

Topics: Importance of IWW. Good-hearted prostitutes. Hoboes and freight hopping. Employment sharks. 7-30-76 1.8 hr p
Subjects: hobos lumberjacks labor iww railroads prostitutes
Locations: Spokane North Idaho

Lillian Woodworth Otness Interview #1, 1/6/1975

Topics: A.A. Lieuallen's move to Moscow area. Loss of cattle in winter of 1873. His operation of Moscow's first store. Naming Moscow. Early town events. Closeness of university and town. Family experiences. 1-6-75 1 hr 20p
Subjects: Native Americans banks businesses colleges and universities education families families farming homesteads livestock politics schools stores
Locations: Moscow California Oregon

Ada Oylear SCHOEFFLER (b. 1901)

Residence: Potlatch Ridge Cameron
Occupation: Farm wife harvest cook housekeeper
Family Origin: Families came from Missouri and Iowa (1880's)

Eugene SETTLE (b. 1894)

Residence: Aspendale Moscow
Occupation: Warehouse superintendent for Latah County Grain Growers farmer
Family Origin: His was one of the few black families to settle in the area; parents grew up in Mississippi, came in 1899

E. J. (Tom) PLATT (b. 1903)

Residence: Genesee Salmon River (
Occupation: Livestock operator
Family Origin: Father's family came from Wisonsin (1881), mother's from Kansas (1894)

Elmer WELLS (b. 1878)

Residence: Moscow
Occupation: Laborer
Family Origin: Moved from North Carolina in 1902

Edward & Dixie Groseclose Interview #1, 3/9/1976

Topics: Homesteading in Potlatch Canyon. Goodness of Nez Perces. Flooding of Potlatch River. Railroad work at Arrow Junction. Cedarville settlement. 3-9-76 2 hr 51p
Subjects: families' homesteads orchards winter railroads death accidents rattlesnakes schools Native Americans ferries taxes women alcohol timber logging floods rivers drinking marriage
Locations: Juliaetta Potlatch Creek Lapwai Teakean

Carl OLSON (b. 1895)

Residence: Dry Ridge Troy
Occupation: Thresherman operator of gas station and car dealership sawmiller miner Troy councilman for 24 years
Family Origin: Parents emigrated from Sweden and homesteaded (1889)

Jean & Stiner Ringsage Interview #1, 10/5/1976

Topics: Parents' backwoods marriage. Her isolated childhood. Women's culture. Single teachers' social life. Laboring in Alberta; subsistence farming near Wainwright. His father's healing powers. Pleasures of city living, 10-5-76 5.5 hr 149p
Subjects: Native Americans accidents babies banks birth control books businesses childhood clothing crops dances dating death divorce doctors education families family life education farming fighting fires friendships holidays homemakers hospitals housekeeping immigrants isolation log cabins marriage miners mines mining newspapers nursing orchards politics reading religion rural communities sewing sports teachers trapping voting women women's rights world wars writing
Locations: Park Alberta British Columbia Prince Edward Island Vancouver

Melvin Carlson Interview #1, 7/21/1975

Topics: With Helena Carlson (sister-in-law) Farm life as youngster: school, work, play and entertainments. Ice making. Threshing. Local fires. 7-21-75 2 hr p KP
Subjects: women authors murders suicide pioneers homesteads churches lore education teachers tarot fortune-telling
Locations: American Ridge Troy

W. J. Gamble Interview #1, 12/14/1973

Topics: ction of Potlatch for the lumber mill and townsite. Advantages of company town. Shipping resources on WISM. Relations with other railroads. Working west from Pennsylvania. Problems of logging in Idaho mountains. Decline of Potlatch. 12-14-73 1.5 hr 32p
Subjects: businesses logging mills politics railroads sports timber
Locations: Potlatch

Walter CURRIN (b. 1904)

Residence: Rimrock Genesee
Occupation: Farmer and warehouseman
Family Origin: Father came in 1878 from the Willamette Valley, Oregon

Maeci Groseclose Nye Interview #1, 3/11/1976

Topics: Foster's hospital and Juliaetta's decline. Father's undertaking business. Abraham Adams. Juliaetta: celebrations and fires. Spiritualists. Dislike of teaching. 3-11-76 1.5 hr 43p
Subjects: African Americans Native Americans boardinghouses cemeteries childhood churches colleges and universities death doctors drinking elections families farming fires holidays illness immigrants languages lore mansions music normal schools politics saloons schools teachers thieves water women
Locations: Juliaetta Oregon Washington Spokane

Gustav CARLSON (b. 1899)

Residence: Burnt Ridge Troy
Occupation: Teacher census bureau officer
Family Origin: Parents were Swedish immigrants who settled in 1891; he left the area as an adult. Willa Carlson's brother-in-law

Edward Ramsdale Interview #2, 5/9/1975

Topics: Starting farming as a rentor. Increasing land holdings. Depression and demise of small farms. 5-9-75 2.4 hr 57p
Subjects: schools churches children railroads threshing harvesting orchards CCC banks farms livestock farming politics drinking
Locations: Potlatch American Ridge Troy Norway

Agnes Healy Jones Interview #2, 5/6/1976

Topics: Raising geese. Father Cataldo. Rosenstein's kindness; Vollmer's foreclosures. Genesee. 5-6-76 1 hr 27p
Subjects: Native Americans businesses childhood chores churches clothing families farming food homesteads mission churches railroads religion restaurants
Locations: Genesee Spokane

Clara Payne Grove Interview #2, 11/7/1975

Topics: WCTU work: jail visiting, charity, temperance conversions. Editing newspaper despite opposition to businesswomen. Boarding students. Feeding the hungry. A woman's struggle through college. Women's suffrage; early politics. 11-7-75 1.9 hr 38p
Subjects: Native Americans WCTU boardinghouses businesses colleges and universities food gardens immigrants lore moving newspapers pioneers politics poor students winter women
Locations: Moscow Troy

Lolah Benge Tribble Interview #1, 7/23/1973

Topics: Teenage years: dances, teachers, work. Settling in Idaho. Neighborhood closeness. 7-23-73 1 hr LS
Subjects: accidents bears childhood clothing cooking dances farming logging marriage moonshine moving railroads schools teachers women
Locations: Princeton Hatter Creek

Elmer FLODIN (b. 1899)

Residence: Dry Ridge Troy
Occupation: Farmer logger
Family Origin: Parents were Swedish homesteaders (early 1880's)

Ida Swanberg ASPLUND (b. 1889)

Residence: Nora Troy
Occupation: Homemaker housekeeper harvest cook
Family Origin: Parents came from Sweden (1888)

Lucille Riddell DENEVAN (b. 1900)

Residence: Bovill
Occupation: Nurse homemaker
Family Origin: Grew up in Minnesota; came after completing training in Chicago (1919)

Martha Lowery Long Interview #1, 10/25/1976

Topics: Youth on a drought-stricken homestead. Family holiday customs. Mother's character. Family move to Pullman. Attending Washington State College. 10-25-76 2 hr 61p
Subjects: boardinghouses cards childhood chores churches clothing colleges and universities cooking customs dances education families food games gardens holidays homesteads illness immigrants isolation languages moving music orchards reading religion roads teachers threshing water women
Locations: Pullman Culdesac Washington Kendrick

F. Marvin LONG (b. 1894)

Residence: Kendrick Cedar Creek Leland
Occupation: Operator of mercantile store
Family Origin: Family moved from North Carolina (1888)

Emmett and Anna Utt Interview #1, 10/19/1973

Topics: Family life. Parents' view of school and dances. Getting settled at Harvard. 10-19-73 1 hr LS
Subjects: dances families farming schools women
Locations: Harvard Hatter Creek

Elvon Hampton Interview #1, 5/3/1976

Topics: Father's management of Genesee's largest farm operation. Rotation of crops and livestock. Hired hands. Rural isolation; chatauquas. Choice of farming career. 5-3-76 1.8 hr p
Subjects: IWW University of Idaho butchering childhood crops dances farmers farming horses livestock mules music rodeos schools sheep stores threshing women
Locations: Genesee Moscow Grey Eagle District

Ione Adair Interview #3, 11/16/1976

Topics: With Bernadine Cornelison. Family life in the McConnell mansion. Father's medical practice; friendship with Nez Perce. Mother's poor health and optimism. Family move to Moscow. Reading club. Bovill fishing. 11-16-76 2.4 hr 62p
Subjects: Native Americans bankruptcy churches colleges and universities fishing holidays illness mansions music professors religion winter women
Locations: Moscow Bovill Fortynine Meadows Elk River

Grace Jain Wicks Interview #3, 10/4/1974

Topics: Heart-in-hand and Indian-white marriages. Pride in housekeeping. Washdays. Family hardship in World War I. Genesee culture, stock show, stores. 10-4-74 1.5 hr 30p
Subjects: African Americans Native Americans childhood chores families food holidays homemakers literary marriage parties pioneers stores women world wars
Locations: Genesee Coyote Grade Lewiston

Nellie Wood Smith Interview #4, 10/3/1975

Topics: Evacuation of Bovill in Beal's Butte fire (1914). Mrs. T.P.Jones' role in Bovill. Husband's work for Potlatch. Raising children. 10-3-75 2.5 hr 54p
Subjects: Christian childrearing chores clothing clubs families fires forest fires homemakers knitting logging camps politics railroads religion women wool work world wars
Locations: Bovill McGary Butte

Carl Olson Interview #2, 8/17/1973

Topics: Food and water on family homestead. Clearing land. Road building. Homestead ethics. Town of Nora. Tramps. 8-17-73 1.5 hr 25p
Subjects: homesteads horses immigrants livestock lore lumber mills murders parties post offices railroads water
Locations: Dry Ridge Troy Clarkia Nora Creek

Philip Asplund Interview #1, 2/13/1975

Topics: Working in the woods: pay reduction, blowing-in, World War I, Big Anderson. Youth on family farm. Troy as logging and trading center. 2-13-75 1.7 hr 47p
Subjects: African Americans IWW children death drinking families farming food gyppos homesteads illness languages logging logging camps lore lumberjacks roads sawmills schools shivarees strikes water winter world wars
Locations: Dry Ridge Troy Nora Creek

Mi & Marie Lee Lew (b. 1910)

Residence: Moscow
Occupation: Restaurateur
Family Origin: Came to Spokane from China in 1920

Lola Gamble Clyde Interview #2, 12/13/1974

Topics: Father's ministry. Eliza Spalding and Nez Perce religion. Family homesteading; mother's interests and isolation. Farm wildflowers and wildlife. Love of school. 12-13-74 1.5 hr 36p
Subjects: Native Americans children teaching marriage games illness childhood illness medicine midwives chores families schools marriage Chautauqua
Locations: Paradise Ridge Moscow

Oscar & Anna Thomason Interview #1, 2/3/1976

Topics: Adaptation to America. Life in Sweden: family's religion, social classes Lore of America in Sweden. Family connections to Troy. Her journey to Troy. Banker Ole Bohman. 2-3-76 2.9 hr
Subjects: immigrants families women illness schools citizenship childbirth religion churches logging unions poor banks railroads Swedish Americans
Locations: Dry Ridge Troy Little Bear Ridge Sweden

Beulah Dollar HERRMANN (b. 1900)

Residence: Moscow Troy
Occupation: Clerk for Psychianna
Family Origin: Moved from Colorado (1928)

Arthur BJERKE (b. 1886)

Residence: Brush Creek Deary
Occupation: Farmer carpenter logger
Family Origin: Came from Norway with family, who homesteaded in 1891

Ernest Anderson Interview #2, 6/14/1974

Topics: Depression trials. Rural schools: strictness, teachers, decline. Harvest work as roustabout. Early sawmilling. Chores. 6-14-74 1.5 hr
Subjects: Great Depression accidents chores churches families farming games homesteads logging schools teachers
Locations: Burnt Ridge Troy

George McKEEVER (b. 1897)

Residence: Kendrick
Occupation: Dentist
Family Origin: Family came from Missouri in the 1890's

Alben Halen Interview #1, 2/9/1976

Topics: Farming with horses. Hard times for farmers. Logging for Potlatch, Farmer opposition to IWW. 2-9-76 1.5 hr
Subjects: IWW bankruptcy bankruptcy childhood families farming homesteads horses livestock logging logging camps lumberjacks strikes timber timber working conditions world wars
Locations: Deary Potlatch Big Bear Ridge

Oscar & Hazel Olson (b. 1920)

Residence: Deary
Occupation: Homemaker teacher camp flunkey
Family Origin: Moved from central Idaho in the early forties

Madeleine Groh Gorman Interview #1, 8/21/1974

Topics: Father's friendship with Nez Perces.Return to France as a child; mother's adjustment to America. Fires in Bovill and Kendrick. Tent meetings. Home remedies. First World War. Town characters. 8-21-74 2 hr 46p LS
Subjects: Chautauqua Chinese Americans Japanese Americans Native Americans armed forces arson banks businesses children cooking dances families fires hotels illness immigrants knitting languages logging camps lore mines pack trains religion saloons sewing stores women
Locations: Kendrick Bovill

Bernadine Adair Cornelison Interview #4 (w/ her sister Ione Adair), 1/27/1977

Topics: With Bernadine Cornelison. Mansion grounds and parties. McConnell family background. College experiences. Singing career. l_27-77 2 hr 56p
Subjects: African Americans Native Americans bankruptcy churches colleges and universities mansions music parties schools sororities teaching women
Locations: Moscow Bovill Fortynine Meadows Lewiston University of Idaho

Henry BRAMMER (b. 1881)

Residence: Cameron Juliaetta
Occupation: Farmer
Family Origin: Family came from Germany via Kansas (1892)

W. J. Gamble Interview #2, 6/6/1975

Topics: Company operation of town of Potlatch. General Managers Deary and Laird. Dealing with the IWW. Company policies during the de pression. Attitudes towards workingmen. Potlatch Japanese. Lobbying experiences. Weyerhaeuser family. 6-6-75 1.9 hr 40p
Subjects: IWW Japanese Americans drinking immigrants legislation logging logging camps lumberjacks management politics railroads schools unions
Locations: Potlatch Deary

Kenneth Platt Interview #1 (w/ brother Tom Platt and cousin William Hickman), 12/3/1974

Topics: With William Hickman (cousin), Kenneth Piatt (brother) Introduction of purebred Herefords by Piatt brothers (1896). Livestock operation at Genesee and Salmon Rivers; hardship in winter of 1919. Salmon homesteading. Settlement of Genesee area. Horse show and rodeo. Livery business. 12-3-74 2.5 hr p
Subjects: Great Depression IWW Native Americans businesses families farming fires homesteads horses liveries livestock moonshine railroads religion rodeos winter world wars
Locations: Genesee Salmon River

Mary Grey Edwards Interview #1, 11/3/1976

Topics: Family and neighbors in childhood. An Indian-white family. Dances Life on the farm and in Genesee. 11-3-76 1.7 hr
Subjects: Native Americans cards childhood clothing dances drinking families farming friendship gardens homemakers homesteads marriage music neighbors schools stores water
Locations: Genesee Moscow Lapwai

Edna Johnson Butterfield Interview #1, 10/11/1973

Topics: Family halfway house at Woodfell. Subsistence living. Hoodoo miners and local economy. Early towns. 10-11-73 1 hr LS
Subjects: Swedish Americans dances death education families farming food holidays illness immigrants literary medicine miners mines moving saloons schools wool
Locations: Palouse Princeton Harvard Woodfell

Mabel Oliver Hazeltine Interview #1, 6/3/1974

Topics: Social life: games, dances, revivals. Chores and staples. Move to Canada. Childbirth. 6-3-74 .8 hr 20p LS
Subjects: childbirth childhood chores churches clothing dances drinking education farming food forest fires games music neighbors pregnancy railroads religion schools teachers winter women
Locations: Moscow Canada Viola

Amanda Asplund PHELAN (b. 1887)

Residence: Dry Ridge Troy
Occupation: Farm wife housekeeper
Family Origin: Philip Asplund's sister

Hanna Anderson SANDELL (b. 1891)

Residence: Johnson Troy
Occupation: Nurse at Gritman Hospital homemaker
Family Origin: Parents came from Sweden (c. 1870)

Eva Slatter Daniels Interview #1, 4/29/1976

Topics: Community functions of school and church. Teaching in rural schools Working for board. Difficult living at Park. Childhood on homestead. Father's struggle as an orphan in the West. 4-29-76 2.1 hr 47p
Subjects: banks childhood churches dances education families games marriage moving parties rural schools schools teachers teaching women world wars
Locations: Cameron Park Agatha Lewiston

Carol Ryrie Brink Interview #1, 6/1/1975

Topics: Historical and family background of novels. Sources of writing in childhood. Grandmother and aunt. Moscow mores. Development as a writer. Reading of three true sketches of early Moscow. (Recorded by Mrs. Brink in California in response to taped questions.) 6-75 1.9 hr 27p
Subjects: assassinations authors childhood children churches doctors families friendship holidays homesteads local histories marriage murders pioneers presidents suicide winter women
Locations: Moscow Wisconsin Clarkia Washington

Willa Cummings Carlson Interview #6, 1/15/1976

Topics: A country girl at Lewiston Normal: working for keep, sophistication of city elite. Difficult ranching experience. Family prune dryer and cider press. 1-15-76 1.7 hr 43p
Subjects: children churches education food friendship normal schools rural schools schools students teachers women
Locations: American Ridge Troy Lewiston

Viola White Cameron Interview #1, 7/25/1974

Topics: and Grace Ryan (sister) Flunkeying and lumberjacks. Social life of Bovill. Mother's work, Loss of Slabtown house in 1914 fire. 7-25-24 1 hr LS
Subjects: automobiles children chores electricity families food forest fires logging camps lumberjacks rodeos schools strikes
Locations: Bovill Potlatch

Edward Mushal Interview #1, 9/16/1975

Topics: Deaths in mill accidents. Working at the mill. Social life. Good work of IWW's. Foreign groups. Wartime prejudice against Germans. 9-16-75 2 hr
Subjects: women canning and preserving farmers farming schools childhood pioneers homesteads chores world wars marriage Native Americans lore Chinese Americans mining miners timber logging lumberjacks midwives nursing cooking hospitals
Locations: Potlatch Washington Gold Hill

Ruth Olson Interview #1, 6/16/1976

Topics: With Margaret Olson (sister) Teaching and teachers' authority in small communities. Choice of career and training. Entertainment for young. Play and chores on homestead. Decline of small towns. 6-16-76 1.5 hr
Subjects: homesteads families games sports schools African Americans fires newspapers dances teaching teachers children colleges and universities women rural schools reading schools Great Depression transportation
Locations: Deary Texas Ridge

Edward Swenson Interview #1, 7/1/1974

Topics: First years of homesteading at Park: locating, building, surviving, Community construction of road to Troy. Appearance of valley. 7-1-74 1 hr 19p
Subjects: childhood construction families food hunting immigrants languages log cabins lore pioneers roads rural schools schools surveying
Locations: Park Anderson Genesee Troy

Lena (Molly) Erickson JUSTICE (b. 1901)

Residence: Hog Meadows Bovill
Occupation: Logging camp flunkey homemaker
Family Origin: Parents came from Minnesota (1892). Albert Justice's wife

Grace Jain Wicks Interview #2, 10/3/1974

Topics: Growing up on the family farm: reading, music and pen-pal club. Farm animals and orchard. Mother's frailty as a pioneer. Nez Perce families. Jane Silcott; Brocky Jack. 10-3-74 1.5 hr 30p
Subjects: Native Americans animals electricity families farming food horses pioneers rattlesnakes telephones trapping women
Locations: Genesee Coyote Grade

Arthur Sundberg Interview #3, 7/25/1975

Topics: Laird and Deary as general managers. Weyerhaeuser and rags-toriches theory; ambitions of young. Potlatch baseball. Mill products and car loading. Town whistles. 7-25-75 3 hr 57p
Subjects: automobiles churches dances drinking fires foremen logging lumber mills politics workers working conditions
Locations: Potlatch Spokane Lewiston

Ada Hill Crow Interview #1, 7/24/1974

Topics: With Velma Gertz (daughter) Family homesteading: farm produce and 1893 wet harvest. Viola events and settlers. Religious and social gatherings. Typhoid; smallpox. Getting married. Canadian homesteading (1912-37). 7-24-74 2 hr 45p LS
Locations: Fourmile Creek Viola Oregon Canada

Willa Cummings Carlson Interview #1, 4/23/1974

Topics: With Mavis Lee Utley (daughter) Disappearance of a buttermaker. A veiled lady. Boarding in Lewiston as a girl. Fortune telling experiences. Prescience. 4-23-74 2.2 hr 33p
Subjects: authors churches education fortune-telling homesteads lore murders pioneers suicide tarot teachers women
Locations: American Ridge Troy

Bess Beardsley Whitman Interview #1, 3/1/1974

Topics: Mother's skill and determination. Family's horse drive from California; loss of horses. Development of Penney's Store chain. 3-74 .5 hr RM
Subjects: University of Idaho colleges and universities families horses rattlesnakes stores
Locations: Moscow

Oscar & Anna Thomason (b. 1899)

Residence: Dry Ridge Troy
Occupation: Farm wife
Family Origin: Came from Torsby, Sweden in 1928

Ruth Anderson KELLBERG (b. 1899)

Residence: Burnt Ridge Troy
Occupation: Farm wife
Family Origin: Parents were Swedish homesteaders (1890)

Grace Jain Wicks Interview #1, 6/12/1974

Topics: Pioneering ways and hardships at Genesee. Father's family pioneering. Family background. 6-12-74 1.5 hr RM
Subjects: families food holidays homemakers homesteads illness immigrants pioneers
Locations: Genesee Coyote Grade

Daniel (Bert) GAMBLE (b. 1887)

Residence: Paradise Ridge
Occupation: Worked for woods products corporation poet
Family Origin: Lola Clyde's brother

Theodore Sundell Interview #1, 3/3/1974

Topics: With Ida Asplund (friend) A mean marshal1 and a mean teacher. July Fourth and other community pleasures. Harvest work. Desire to come to America. Clearing land. Drinking in prohibition. 3-3-74 1.5 hr p RM
Subjects: families immigrants homesteads farming logging threshing saloons murders holidays churches picnics games shivarees dances schools cooking working conditions sewing food railroads children teachers Prohibition moonshine bootlegging parties dating
Locations: Troy Burnt Ridge

Carl Olson Interview #5, 6/17/1975

Topics: n/a
Subjects: businesses politics sawmills
Locations: Dry Ridge Troy

Mabelle Nickell MORRIS (b. 1887)

Residence: Elk River Potlatch
Occupation: Drugstore operator homemaker
Family Origin: Came from central Canada in 1907

Frank & Lottie Rowan Interview #2, 2/3/1975

Topics: Local characters. Lawlessness around Troy and Grangeville. Wild pets and animals. A visitation. 2-3-75 2.4 hr 57p
Subjects: African Americans IWW Native Americans arson banks bears churches cooking death families funerals gyppos languages logging camps lore lumberjacks lynching medicine murders railroads roads winter women
Locations: Troy Burnt Ridge Grangeville

Agnes Healy JONES (b. 1890)

Residence: Thorn Creek Genesee
Occupation: Farm wife waitress
Family Origin: Mother's parents (Tierneys) were the first white settlers of the Genesee area,coming from Kansas in 1870; father emigrated from Ireland (early 1870s)

Walter BENSCOTER (b. 1898)

Residence: American Ridge Kendrick
Occupation: Farmer
Family Origin: Parents were homesteaders from Michigan (1885)

Jean & Stiner Ringsage (b. 1905)

Residence: Park Alberta British Columbia
Occupation: Farm wife teacher nurse's aide
Family Origin: Moved to Idaho with husband in 1933

George Schmaltz Interview #1, 5/17/1976

Topics: Tales of a liar, a single man and moonshine. Impact of mill removal Elk River Japanese. Malker Anderson. Emigration from Sweden. 5-17-76 2 hr 34p
Subjects: African Americans CCC disease fighting fishing food foremen homesteads hunting illness immigrants jails logging camps moonshine sports strikes winter world wars
Locations: Elk River Park

Willis Estes Interview #1, 7/9/1974

Topics: Delivering mail in rough conditions. Shoeing and working with horses. Responsibility of the mails. 7-9-74 1.5 hr 32p LS
Subjects: automobiles blacksmith butchering childhood holidays horses mail carriers medicine newspapers post offices reading stores wagons winter
Locations: Viola Genesee

Carl Olson Interview #1, 8/6/1973

Topics: Legendary local characters. Why parents left Sweden; Varmlanders ;come to Troy. Getting by on the homestead. Family copper mine and brickmaking. Neighborhood criminals. Decline of opportunity; ruin of country by erosion. 8-6-73 1.5 hr 37p
Subjects: Native Americans accidents death drinking farming food forest fires homesteads hunting immigrants languages livestock lore mining timber winter women
Locations: Dry Ridge Troy Moscow Park

Frank Brocke Interview #5, 11/9/1976

Topics: With Margie Brocke. Robberies of the Troy bank. Local attitudes toward wealth and prospering. Country-town differences. Santa Claus. Student loans. Causes of 1970's depression. 11-9-76 2.5 hr 67p
Subjects: German-American Norwegian-American Swedish-America banks holidays logging thieves women
Locations: Troy Kendrick

Gerald INGLE (b. 1910)

Residence: Big Bear Ridge Kendrick
Occupation: County commissioner for 20 years farmer
Family Origin: Son of Florence Ingle. Grandfather was a homesteader from Tennesee (1883)

Elsie Nelson Interview #1, 3/14/1974

Topics: Moscow - beginnings and existence as a pioneer town. Homesteaders' relation to Moscow. 3-14-74 1.5 hr 6p LS
Subjects: University of Idaho authors childbirth colleges and universities fires gambling homesteads hotels immigrants mining post offices railroads stores
Locations: Moscow Paradise Ridge

Glen & Agnes Gilder (b. 1903)

Residence: Harvard Spring Valley
Occupation: Farm wife
Family Origin: Came with family from Seattle, Washington (1919)

Albert Justice Interview #1, 8/23/1976

Topics: Running logging camp kitchens. Quality of food; art of camp cooking. Problems with cleanliness and help. IWW winning of decent conditions. Gyppo cooking and conflict with union. Bovill restaurant in wartime. 8-23-74 3 hr 73p
Subjects: IWW bears childhood cooking drinking families food gyppos holidays logging camps lumberjacks restaurants strikes unions women working conditions world wars
Locations: Bovill

Joel Burkland Interview #1, 8/15/1953

Topics: Family's water powered mill. Early Deary, fires and decline. Boys' work and fishing. Marshall's work. Depression debts. 8-15-53 1.5 hr
Subjects: sawmills Native Americans hunting fishing Great Depression thieves children winter logging fires death IWW lumberjacks businesses service stations blacksmiths threshing
Locations: Deary Bear Creek Anderson Moscow

Fannie Cuthbert BYERS (b. 1893)

Residence: Fourmile Creek Viola
Occupation: Farm wife pea processor harvest cook
Family Origin: Parents were born in Scotland, came from Kansas and homesteaded (1888)

Frances Vaughan FRY (b. 1893)

Residence: Cedar Creek Kendrick
Occupation: Farm wife cook for woods crews doctor's assistant store clerk
Family Origin: Family came from Kansas (1895)

Ione Adair Interview #5, 2/24/1977

Topics: With Bernadine Cornelison. Women homesteaders in the timber. Experiences of 1910 fire. Friendship with father. Dr. Watkins family. Carrie Bush and Mary Borah. 2-24-77 2.5 hr 59p
Subjects: children divorces drinking fires forest fires homesteads illness illness murders politics railroads suicide teaching women
Locations: Moscow Bovill Fortynine Meadows Wallace

Edward KENT (b. 1889)

Residence: American Ridge Juliaetta
Occupation: Farmer cowboy
Family Origin: Came with mother from Nova Scotia in 1898

Gus Gamble Interview #2, 12/18/1974

Topics: More about Shorty Hill. Harvest work as a boy. 12-18-74 1.1 hr
Subjects: lore police officers lynching moonshine farming logging railroads logging camps immigrants drinking accidents death
Locations: Colfax Elk River

Lillian Woodworth OTNESS (b. 1908)

Residence: Moscow
Occupation: Teacher of English and physical education in college and high school homemaker
Family Origin: Grandfather was an original founder of Moscow, moving from eastern Oregon (1871); father came from Montana (1877)

Glenn Corrin Interview, 5/21/1975

Topics: Marshall Hays: his unpopularity and murder. Joe and Lou Wells. Driving supply wagon east of Troy (1906). Beauty of Bovill townsite, 5-21-75 .9 hr 12p
Subjects: African Americans dances death drinking farming immigrants knitting lore mail carriers murders music orchards police officers roads saloons sawmills wool wool
Locations: Troy Lewiston Bovill Nora Creek Deary

Edward HALSETH (b. 1894)

Residence: Big Bear Ridge Jansville
Occupation: Farmer
Family Origin: Parents were Norwegian homesteaders (1890's)

Winney Tout Baker Interview #1, 1975