Dora Otter FLEENER (b. 1894)

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

Interviews

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
Duration:
1:00:52
Interviewer:
Sam Schrager
Keywords:
authors childhood children colleges and universities death families homesteads illness literary livestock medicine pioneers rural communities schools
Locations:
Moscow
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Dora Otter Fleener Interview #2, 12/16/1974

Topics:
Working out before marriage. Life during threshing season. Father-in-law's homesteading near Moscow (1870's). Controversy over identities of Wild Davey and William Drannan. Home rememdies. 12-16-74 1.5 hr p
Duration:
1:27:50
Interviewer:
Sam Schrager
Keywords:
Native Americans accidents authors automobiles businesses churches families farming harvesting holidays homesteads illness medicine music roads saloons threshing vigilantes winter women writing
Locations:
Moscow Colfax
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Source
Preferred Citation:
"Dora Otter FLEENER (b. 1894)", Latah County Oral History Collection, University of Idaho Library Digital Collections, https://www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/lcoh/people/fleener_dora.html
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