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Latah County Oral History Collection, 1971-1986

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Schrager, Sam
Title
Latah County Oral History Collection
Dates
1971-1986 (inclusive)
1971-1976 (bulk)
Quantity
approximately 560 hours of recorded tape with 205 narrators
Collection Number
MG 415
Summary
This collection documents the social history of the area and its people, concentrating on the period from 1890 to 1940. The interviews span the years 1971 to 1976.
Repository
University of Idaho Library, Special Collections and Archives
Special Collections and Archives
University of Idaho Library
875 Perimeter Drive
MS 2350
Moscow, ID
83844-2350
Telephone: 2088850845
libspec@uidaho.edu
Access Restrictions

The collection is open to the public. Researchers must use the collection in accordance with the policies of the University of Idaho Special Collections and Archives.

Languages
This collection is in English.
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Content Description

The Latah County Oral History collection documents the social history of the area and its people, concentrating on the period from 1890 to 1940. The collection consists of individual life histories and community traditions, and attempts to be representative of the occupational, geographical and ethnic groups within the county.

The oral history project was sponsored by the Latah County Museum Society with funding from a grant by the Idaho Bicentennial Commission. The interviews span the years 1971 to 1976.

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Use of the Collection

Alternative Forms Available

Interviews and transcripts are available online through the Latah County Oral History Digital Collection..

Restrictions on Use

Consult Head of Special Collections and Archives on permission for use.

Preferred Citation

Latah County, Idaho Oral History Collection, MG 415, Special Collections and Archives, University of Idaho Library, Moscow, Idaho.

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Administrative Information

Arrangement

This finding aid is based on and reproduces parts of the "Guide to the Latah County, Idaho Oral History Collection," by Sam Schrager. Latah County Museum Society, [1977].

Containers of the tapes and transcripts (some are draft copies) are indicated. Summaries are in box 20.

A few interviews not included in Sam Schrager’s guide were added at the end of this finding aid.

Entries within the guide are arranged in the following manner:

  • Number in collection, narrator's name, and interviewer's name.

  • Place (s) of residence within the area and date of birth.

  • Place (s) of family origin.

  • Occupation(s).

  • (Number of conversation in series). Names of others taking part in conversation, besides interviewer, if any. "And" indicates co-billing with another narrator; "with" indicates a supporting role in the conversation. Date of conversation.

  • Length of conversation and length of transcript.

  • Listing of main storytelling topics, in roughly descending order of their importance within the conversation.

Location of Collection

Special Collections and Archives of the University of Idaho Library

Acquisition Information

The Latah County Museum Society donated audiocassette tapes, transcripts and summaries of the interviews to Special Collections and Archives of the University of Idaho Library in 1987.

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Detailed Description of the Collection

  • 1: Adair, Ione. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

    Moscow, Bovill, Fortynine Meadows 1883

    Parents came from Oregon and Indiana (1893); family lived in the McConnell mansion (1900-1936).

    County assessor, teacher, postal clerk, timber homesteader.

    • Description: (1) with Bernadine Cornelison (sister)
      2 hr; 33p

      Family's Bovill homesteading. Cooking for firefighters (1910). Governor McConnell's family. Purchase of mansion. Family's pet bear. Backwoods humor.

      Dates: June 8, 1976
      Container: Tape Box 1, Transcript Box 20
      Location: 1: Adair, Ione. Interviewer: Sam Schrager
    • Description: (2) with Bernadine Cornelison
      2 hr; 51p

      Timber homesteading at Fortynine Meadows; loss of claim. Relationship with parents. Victorian manners and dress. Methodist church and revivals. Prohibition. Family cars.

      Dates: September 3, 1976
      Container: Tape Box 1, Transcript Box 20
      Location: 1: Adair, Ione. Interviewer: Sam Schrager
    • Description: (3) with Bernadine Cornelison
      2.4 hr; 62p

      Family life in the McConnell mansion. Father's medical practice; his friendship with Nez Perces. Mother's poor health and optimism. Family move to Moscow. Reading club. Bovill fishing.

      Dates: November 16, 1976
      Container: Tape Box 1, Transcript Box 20
      Location: 1: Adair, Ione. Interviewer: Sam Schrager
    • Description: (4) with Bernadine Cornelison
      2 hr; 56p

      Mansion grounds and parties. McConnell family background. College experiences. Singing career.

      Dates: January 27, 1977
      Container: Tape Box 1, Transcript Box 20
      Location: 1: Adair, Ione. Interviewer: Sam Schrager
    • Description: (5) with Bernadine Cornelison
      2.5 hr; 59p

      Women homesteaders in the timber. Experiences of 1910 fire. Friendship with father. Dr. Watkins family. Carrie Bush and Mary Borah.

      Dates: February 24, 1977
      Container: Tape Box 1, Transcript Box 20
      Location: 1: Adair, Ione. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

  • 2: Albright, Lora Brackett. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

    Potlatch River, Juliaetta 1898

    Came from Lookout, Idaho (1916), where parents had moved from Minnesota.

    Manager of family produce operation, teacher, farm wife, state legislator (1949-1950).

    • Description: (1)
      2 hr; 54p

      Experiences in Midwest logging camps as a girl. Family adversity and development of Idaho ranch. Schooling and teaching. Favorite horse. Homestading rough land near Juliaetta (1918).

      Dates: April 29, 1976
      Container: Tape Box 1, Transcript Box 20
      Location: 2: Albright, Lora Brackett. Interviewer: Sam Schrager
    • Description: (2)
      1.5 hr; 40p

      Significance of teacher to community. Midwiving at childbirths. Decision to marry. Longings of pioneer women. Native and imported plants.

      Dates: May 25, 1976
      Container: Tape Box 1, Transcript Box 20
      Location: 2: Albright, Lora Brackett. Interviewer: Sam Schrager
    • Description: (3)
      4 hr; 107p

      Lay missionary work at Lapwai Methodist Church. Selling school consolidation to communities. Family truck gardening and turkey raising. Work as state legislator. Homestading experiences. Helping tramps. Ethics.

      Dates: June 23, 1976
      Container: Tape Box 1, Transcript Box 20
      Location: 2: Albright, Lora Brackett. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

  • 3: Anderson, Axel. Interviewer: Sam Schrager and Laura Schrager

    Bovill, Elk River 1886

    Arrived in 1907, two years after emigrating from Sweden.

    Assistant logging superintendent, camp foreman; employed by Potlatch Lumber Co. for 44 years.

  • 4: Anderson, Ernest. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

    Burnt Ridge, Troy 1902

    Parents emigrated from Sweden and settled in the late nineties. Helen Anderson's husband.

    Farmer.

    • Description: (1)
      1.5 hr; no transcript

      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.

      Dates: June 5, 1974
      Container: Tape Box 1, Transcript
      Location: 4: Anderson, Ernest. Interviewer: Sam Schrager
    • Description: (2)
      1.5 hr; no transcript

      Depression trials. Rural scholls: strictness, teachers, decline. Harvest work as roustabout. Early sawmilling. Chores.

      Dates: June 14, 1974
      Container: Tape Box 1
      Location: 4: Anderson, Ernest. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

  • 5: Anderson, Helen Kellberg. Interviewer: Laura Schrager

    Burnt Ridge, Troy 1904

    Parents were Swedish settlers who came via Missouri (1906).

    Farm wife.

  • 6: Asplund, Ida Swanberg

    Nora, Troy 1889

    Parents came from Sweden (1888).

    Homemaker, housekeeper, harvest cook.

  • 7: Asplund, Philip. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

    Dry Ridge, Troy 1894

    Parents were from Sweden and Norway (1886).

    Logging teamster.

    • Description: (1)
      1.7 hr; 47p

      Working in the woods: pay reduction, blowing-in, World War I. Big Anderson. Youth on family farm. Troy as logging and trading center.

      Dates: February 13, 1975
      Container: Tape Box 2, Transcript Box 20
      Location: 7: Asplund, Philip. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

  • 8: Bacca, Amelia Odorizzi. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

    Onaway 1908

    Came from northern Italy in 1931.

    Homemaker.

    • Description: (1) and James Bacca (husband)
      2.6 hr; 60p

      Adaptation to America. Subsistence living near Trent, Italy; local interest in America. Depression struggle. Coal mining in Wyoming; settling in Potlatch. Other Onaway Italians.

      Dates: September 24, 1976
      Container: Tape Box 2, Transcript Box 20
      Location: 8: Bacca, Amelia Odorizzi. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

  • 9: Bacca, James

    Onaway, Potlatch 1901

    Emigrated from northern Italy in 1920; came to Potlatch in 1927.

    Fireman in the mill.

  • 10: Baker, Winney Tout. Interviewer: Karen Purtee

    Texas Ridge 1886

    Moved from Illinois with family as a child.

    Farm wife.

  • 11: Benge, Ella May Arden

    Hatter Creek, Princeton 1901

    Moved from Winchester, Idaho area (1924).

    Farm wife, sawmill worker, cook.

  • 12: Benge, John (Dick). Interviewer: Sam Schrager

    Hatter Creek, Princeton 1894

    Moved from Nebraska with family in 1913.

    Lumberjack.

    • Description: (1)
      2.1 hr; 55p

      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.

      Dates: July 17, 1973
      Container: Tape Box 2, Transcript Box 20
      Location: 12: Benge, John (Dick). Interviewer: Sam Schrager
    • Description: (2) and Ella May Benge (wife), with Art Farley (friend)
      2.2 hr; 49p

      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.

      Dates: May 3, 1974
      Container: Tape Box 2, Transcript Box 20
      Location: 12: Benge, John (Dick). Interviewer: Sam Schrager
    • Description: (3)
      2.3 hr; 49p

      Lumberjack ways: East Europeans, camp conditions, poker, characters, fights. An incompetent doreman; good and bad management.

      Dates: April 4, 1976
      Container: Tape Box 2, Transcript Box 20
      Location: 12: Benge, John (Dick). Interviewer: Sam Schrager
    • Description: (4) and Ella May Benge, with Peggy Schott (daughter)
      3.5 hr; 75p

      Depression experiences: hardships, selling produce, parties, canning, credit. Her work: sawmilling, clearing land, cooking. Woods work. Home improvements. School plays.

      Dates: April 27, 1976
      Container: Tape Box 2, Transcript Box 20
      Location: 12: Benge, John (Dick). Interviewer: Sam Schrager

  • 13: Benscoter, Walter. Interviewer: Rob Moore

    American Ridge, Kendrick 1898

    Parents were homesteaders from Michigan (1885).

    Farmer.

  • 14: Benson, Henry. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

    Potlatch, Deary 1894

    Parents were Deary area homesteaders.

    Engineer on WI&M Railroad.

    • Description: (1) with Nina Seybold (sister)
      1 hr; no transcript

      Unsafe railroad bridges; a major derailment. Support of IWWs and hoboes. Family homesteading. Joe Wells family.

      Dates: May 15, 1974
      Container: Tape Box 2, Transcript
      Location: 14: Benson, Henry. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

  • 15: Bjerke, Arthur. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

    Brush Creek, Deary 1886

    Came from Norway with family, who homesteaded in 1891.

    Farmer, carpenter, logger.

    • Description: (1)
      1.5 hr; 19p

      Herding cattle in meadow rangelands. Experiences with Nez Perces. Family homesteading. Neighbors. Construction of WI&M. Father's accident and death.

      Dates: August 15, 1973
      Container: Tape Box 2, Transcript Box 20
      Location: 15: Bjerke, Arthur. Interviewer: Sam Schrager
    • Description: (2)
      2.2 hr; 27p

      Winter surveying with Bill Helmer. Taming an outlaw horse. Impressions of cultural groups. Family farming and grazing methods. Homesteaders' poverty. Oxen logging, wild cattle, and sheep grazing. Deary townsite.

      Dates: August 20, 1973
      Container: Tape Box 2, Transcript Box 20
      Location: 15: Bjerke, Arthur. Interviewer: Sam Schrager
    • Description: (3)
      1.3 hr; 15p

      Hunting experiences of a sharpshooter. Game animals' habits and history. Early Elk River. Surveying methods.

      Dates: October 10, 1973
      Container: Tape Box 2, Transcript Box 20
      Location: 15: Bjerke, Arthur. Interviewer: Sam Schrager
    • Description: (4)
      2.2 hr; 27p

      Joe Wells family. Two killings. Impact of Potlatch Lumber Co. Signs of weather, planting, and reproduction. Fruitless mining operations. Spring floods.

      Dates: May 30, 1975
      Container: Tape Box 2, Transcript Box 20
      Location: 15: Bjerke, Arthur. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

  • 16: Boag, Violet Frei. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

    Bovill, Moscow 1909

    Parents moved from Kansas c.1890.

    Nurse, homemaker.

  • 17: Boas, Louis. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

    Moscow 1900

    Came from Boise to attend the university.

    Editor of "Moscow Daily Star-Mirror" and "Daily Idahonian." (1926-1966)

    • Description: (1)
      1.7 hr; 41p

      Dean French and university social relationships. Faculty, students, and school traditions. Limited oportunities for women. State education. Work as Boise city editor.

      Dates: July 30, 1976
      Container: Tape Box 2, Transcript Box 20
      Location: 17: Boas, Louis. Interviewer: Sam Schrager
    • Description: (2)
      2 hr; 51p

      Role of small city newspaper. Coverage of local issues. Boosting Moscow. Relation of college to town. Moscow banks in the depression. Frank B. Robinson and Moscow's newspaper rivalry.

      Dates: September 3, 1976
      Container: Tape Box 2, Transcript Box 20
      Location: 17: Boas, Louis. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

  • 18: Borah, Mary McConnell. Interviewer: Maureen Bassett

    Moscow, Washington D.C. 1870

    William J. McConnell, her father, first came in 1879 from the Boise Basin and was elected Idaho governor (1892); she came with her mother from Oregon (1888).

    Wife of Idaho Senator William Borah.

  • 19: Brammer, Henry. Interviewer: Rob Moore

    Cameron, Juliaetta 1881

    Family came from Germany via Kansas (1892).

    Farmer.

    • Description: (1)
      1 hr; 20p

      Farming in two depressions. Getting started as a farmer. Father's carpentry. Kansas dugout. Rural innovations.

      Dates: August 20, 1973
      Container: Tape Box 3, Transcript Box 20
      Location: 19: Brammer, Henry. Interviewer: Rob Moore
    • Description: (2)
      1 hr; 22p

      Farm life in the 1890's. Anti-German activity in World War I. Labor organization; hoboes.

      Dates: August 27, 1973
      Container: Tape Box 3, Transcript Box 20
      Location: 19: Brammer, Henry. Interviewer: Rob Moore

  • 20: Brink, Carol Ryrie. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

    Moscow 1895

    Grandfather was a Moscow doctor (1887) trained in Missouri; Father came from Scotland (1889).

    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.

    • Description: (1)
      1.9 hr; 27p

      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).

      Dates: June 1975
      Container: Tape Box 3, Transcript Box 20
      Location: 20: Brink, Carol Ryrie. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

  • 21: Brocke, Frank. Interviewer: Sam Schreger

    Troy, American Ridge, Kendrick 1906

    Parents' family came from Germany; father was born at Genesee, mother in Kansas.

    President of First Bank of Troy, where he worked for forty-seven years; chairman of school board.

    • Description: (1)
      1.5 hr; 39p

      Learning banking at Kendrick; offer to work at Troy. Advantages of one-room schollhouse. Father's death. World War I and anti-German sentiment.

      Dates: March 18, 1975
      Container: Tape Box 3, Transcript Box 20
      Location: 21: Brocke, Frank. Interviewer: Sam Schreger
    • Description: (2)
      1.5 hr; 38p

      Troy bank and community support in the depression. Victory during Bank holiday. Farm economics and bank policy. Banker Ole Bohman. School consolidation; work as school board clerk.

      Dates: April 26, 1975
      Container: Tape Box 3, Transcript Box 20
      Location: 21: Brocke, Frank. Interviewer: Sam Schreger
    • Description: (3)
      1.3 hr; 35p

      Roles of small town banker. Credit and confidentiality. Country youngsters. Moonshine and dances. Early banking experience. Family struggle.

      Dates: January 7, 1976
      Container: Tape Box 3, Transcript Box 20
      Location: 21: Brocke, Frank. Interviewer: Sam Schreger
    • Description: (4) with Margie Brocke
      2 hr; 56p

      Confidence of Troy bank in local people. Bank resolution of depression crisis. Relations between banker and examiner. Frank Green. Local entertainments.

      Dates: February 11, 1976
      Container: Tape Box 3, Transcript Box 20
      Location: 21: Brocke, Frank. Interviewer: Sam Schreger
    • Description: (5) with Margie Brocke
      2.5 hr; 67p

      Robberies of the Troy bank. Local attitudes toward wealth and prospering. Country-town differences. Santa Claus. Student loans. Causes of 1970's depression.

      Dates: November 9, 1976
      Container: Tape Box 3, Transcript Box 20
      Location: 21: Brocke, Frank. Interviewer: Sam Schreger

  • 22: Brouillard, Jennie Cuthbert

    Viola 1886

    Nurse, homemaker.

  • 23: Bubuly, Michael. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

    Bovill 1896

    Emigrated from Yugoslavia in 1913.

    Lamberjack.

    • Description: (1)
      2 hr; 44p

      Protecting a killer at Elk River. 1914 Bovill fires. Bad logging accidents. Bootleg whiskey and Pat Malone. Discrimination against East Europeans. Father's return to Bosnia.

      Dates: August 14, 1974
      Container: Tape Box 3, Transcript Box 20
      Location: 23: Bubuly, Michael. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

  • 24: Buchanan, George (Bud). Interviewer: Rob Moore

    Moscow 1896

    Parents' family came from Illinois and Missouri and homesteaded (1870's); he moved to the Coeur d'Alene district as an adult.

    Electrician.

  • 25: Burkland, Joel. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

    Deary, Bear Creek 1892

    Parents were Swedish homesteaders (1880's). William Burkland's cousin.

    Operated garage and service station, town marshall, secretary-treasurer of highway district (37 years).

    • Description: (1)
      1.5 hr; no transcript

      Family's water powered mill. Early Deary, fires and decline. Boy's work and fishing. Marshall's work. Depression debts.

      Dates: August 15, 1973
      Container: Tape Box 3, Transcript
      Location: 25: Burkland, Joel. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

  • 26: Burkland, William. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

    Bear Creek, Deary 1887

    Parents were Swedish homesteaders (1888).

    Farmer, logger.

    • Description: (1)
      1.8 hr; 39p

      Bear Creek homesteading: instability, trading, getting by. Teaching and meetings in Bear Creek school. Why families left Sweden.

      Dates: February 9, 1976
      Container: Tape Box 3, Transcript Box 20
      Location: 26: Burkland, William. Interviewer: Sam Schrager
    • Description: (2)
      2 hr; 46p

      Neighboring supplanted by town life. Beginning of Deary. Homesteaders' struggle. Harvest work. Runaway teams.

      Dates: March 19, 1976
      Container: Tape Box 3, Transcript Box 20
      Location: 26: Burkland, William. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

  • 27: Butterfield, Edna Johnson. Interviewer: Laura Schrager

    Woodfell, Princeton 1890

    Family came from Michigan (1888).

    Farm wife.

  • 28: Byers, Fannie Cuthbert. Interviewer: (1) Laura Schrager, (2) Sam Schrager, and (3) Marilyn Chaney

    Fourmile Creek, Viola 1893

    Parents were born in Scotland, came from Kansas and homesteaded (1888).

    Farm wife, pea processor, harvest cook.

  • 29: Callison, Norla. Interviewer: Rob Moore

    American Ridge, Kendrick 1903

    Grandfather came from Kansas and homesteaded (1888); mother was from Missouri.

    Farmer.

    • Description: (1)
      1.5 hr; 35p

      Farming practices. Joint-owned threshing machine. Forms of neighboring. Rural schooling and chores. Plentiful game. Raising apples. Kansas farming.

      Dates: August 29, 1973
      Container: Tape Box 3, Transcript Box 20
      Location: 29: Callison, Norla. Interviewer: Rob Moore
    • Description: (2) and Walter Benscoter (friend)
      1.3 hr; 39p

      Festive get-togethers. Moonshine. Weather and farming. One-room school. Thieves. Early homesteading.

      Dates: December 7, 1973
      Container: Tape Box 3, Transcript Box 20
      Location: 29: Callison, Norla. Interviewer: Rob Moore
    • Description: (3) and Walter Benscoter
      1 hr; no transcript

      Fights and local politicking. Farm co-ops. Depressions. Desire to secede from Idaho. Neighbors.

      Dates: January 24, 1974
      Container: Tape Box 3
      Location: 29: Callison, Norla. Interviewer: Rob Moore

  • 30: Cameron, Viola White. Interviewer: Laura Schrager

    Bovill 1906

    Parents came from Minnesota (1905).

    Homemaker, store clerk, logging camp flunkey.

    • Description: (1) and Grace Ryan (sister)
      1 hr; no transcript

      Flunkeying and lumberjacks. Social life of Bovill. Mother's work. Loss of Slabtown house in 1914 fire.

      Dates: July 25, 1974
      Container: Tape Box 3, Transcript
      Location: 30: Cameron, Viola White. Interviewer: Laura Schrager

  • 31: Carlson, Gustav. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

    Burnt Ridge, Troy 1899

    Parents were Swedish immigrants who settled in 1891; he left the area as an adult. Willa Carlson's brother-in-law.

    Teacher, census bereau officer.

    • Description: (1)
      4 hr; 91p

      Family interrelationships on Burnt Ridge. Rural school and farm work. Changed attitudes of second generation. Father's socialism and religion. Non-fraternity education at the university. Troy killings.

      Dates: July 12, 1976
      Container: Tape Box 4, Transcript Box 21
      Location: 31: Carlson, Gustav. Interviewer: Sam Schrager
    • Description: (2)
      3 hr; 64p

      Tuberculosis among the young. Careers of second generation Burnt Ridgers. Influence of canyons on countryside. Nora Mission Church. Farming methods.

      Dates: July 15, 1976
      Container: Tape Box 4, Transcript Box 21
      Location: 31: Carlson, Gustav. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

  • 32: Carlson, Helena Cartwright. Interviewer: Karen Purtee

    Big Meadow, Troy 1899

    Came with family from South Dakota (1912).

    Teacher, homemaker.

  • 33: Carlson, Melvin. Interviewer: Karen Purtee

    Big Meadow, Troy 1906

    Family came from North Dakota (1912).

    Logger, farmer.

    • Description: (1) and Helena Carlson (sister-in-law)
      2 hr; no transcript

      Farm life as youngster: school, work, play and entertainments. Ice making. Threshing. Local fires.

      Dates: July 21, 1975
      Container: Tape Box 4, Transcript
      Location: 33: Carlson, Melvin. Interviewer: Karen Purtee
    • Description: (2) and Helena Carlson
      2 hr; no transcript

      Woods living: lumberjacks, work, women in camp. Halloween pranks. Shivarees. Buttermaking and cream. Home remedies.

      Dates: July 22, 1975
      Container: Tape Box 4
      Location: 33: Carlson, Melvin. Interviewer: Karen Purtee

  • 34: Carlson, Willa Cummings. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

    American Ridge, Troy 1896

    Parents came from Missouri (early 1890's).

    Teacher and farm wife; author of manuscript on Latah County history.

    • Description: (1) with Mavis Lee Utley (daughter)
      2.2 hr; 33p

      Disappearance of a buttermaker. A veiled lady. Boarding in Lewiston as a girl. Fortune telling experiences. Prescience.

      Dates: April 23, 1974
      Container: Tape Box 4, Transcript Box 21
      Location: 34: Carlson, Willa Cummings. Interviewer: Sam Schrager
    • Description: (2) with Mavis Lee Utley
      2 hr; 38p

      Marshall Hays and family. Fannie and Al Roberts. J.P. Vollmer, the millionaire. Schooling and reading as a youngster.

      Dates: April 30, 1974
      Container: Tape Box 4, Transcript Box 21
      Location: 34: Carlson, Willa Cummings. Interviewer: Sam Schrager
    • Description: (3) with Mavis Lee Utley and Helen Johnson (friend)
      1.7 hr; 16p

      Disappearance of Mae Downing. Last account of Winnie Booth. Moving a grave. Death of children from tuberculosis.

      Dates: May 7, 1974
      Container: Tape Box 4, Transcript Box 21
      Location: 34: Carlson, Willa Cummings. Interviewer: Sam Schrager
    • Description: (4)
      2.5 hr; 48p

      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.

      Dates: May 14, 1974
      Container: Tape Box 4, Transcript Box 21
      Location: 34: Carlson, Willa Cummings. Interviewer: Sam Schrager
    • Description: (5)
      1.5 hr; 25p

      Teacher's responsabilities to the community. Mother-in-law's nursing. Views of cultural groups. American Ridge lore.

      Dates: May 20, 1974
      Container: Tape Box 4, Transcript Box 21
      Location: 34: Carlson, Willa Cummings. Interviewer: Sam Schrager
    • Description: (6)
      1.7 hr; 43p

      A country girl at Lewiston Normal: working for keep, sophistication of city elite. Difficult ranching experience. Family prune dryer and cider press.

      Dates: January 15, 1976
      Container: Tape Box 4, Transcript Box 21
      Location: 34: Carlson, Willa Cummings. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

  • 35: Christina, Sister Mary. Interviewer: Lee Magnuson

    Beaverton (Oregon) 1899

    Nun. She helped care for Mary McConnell Borah at the Maryville home.

  • 36: Clark, Archie. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

    Potlatch 1886

    Came from the Midwest in 1904. Rosie Clark's husband.

    Farm laborer.

  • 37: Clark, J. Les

    Elk River 1904

    Native of Manitoba, he arrived in 1923.

    Printer.

  • 38: Clark, Marie Jockheck. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

    Elk River 1908

    Father emigrated from Germany, mother was raised in Denver; they came to open a meat market (1912).

    Teacher, homemaker.

    • Description: (1) and J. Les Clark (husband)
      3.5 hr; 94p

      Growing up in Elk River. Town social life and cultural groups. Apprenticeship of a printer; Elk River print shop. Tramp printers. Leaving Elk River; loss of mill.

      Dates: July 9, 1976
      Container: Tape Box 4, Transcript Box 21
      Location: 38: Clark, Marie Jockheck. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

  • 39: Clark, Rosie Hecks. Interviewer: Sherrie Fields

    Deep Creek, Potlatch 1893

    Family moved from Missouri (1899).

    Kitchen worker, farm wife.

  • 40: Clyde, Lola Gamble. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

    Paradise Ridge, Moscow 1900

    Father emigrated from Ireland and became the area's first Presbyterian minister (1880); mother was from Victoria, British Columbia.

    Teacher, farm wife; local historian, frequently addresses groups and aids researchers.

    • Description: (1)
      1.7 hr; 44p

      Nez Perce trails and use of area. First white people in county. Place name origins. Why Moscow got the university. Arrival of Clydes with Pennsylvania Dutch (1877). Governor McConnell's bankruptcy (1893). Meeting Ida Tarbell.

      Dates: December 2, 1974
      Container: Tape Box 4, Transcript Box 21
      Location: 40: Clyde, Lola Gamble. Interviewer: Sam Schrager
    • Description: (2)
      1.5 hr; 36p

      Father's ministry. Eliza Splading and Nez Perce religion. Family homesteading; mother's interests and isolation. Farm wildflowers and wildlife. Love of school.

      Dates: December 13, 1974
      Container: Tape Box 4, Transcript Box 21
      Location: 40: Clyde, Lola Gamble. Interviewer: Sam Schrager
    • Description: (3) with Robert Clyde (son)
      2 hr; 36p

      Killing of Will Steffen for Dr. Watkin's murder. Double suicide of Winnie Booth and Dr. Ledbrook. Folk beliefs. Early politics. The 1903 compilation of North Idaho history. Stories of Shorty Hill.

      Dates: January 7, 1975
      Container: Tape Box 5, Transcript Box 21
      Location: 40: Clyde, Lola Gamble. Interviewer: Sam Schrager
    • Description: (4) and Thomas Wahl (brother-in-law), Elizabeth Wahl (sister)
      1.3 hr;47p

      Play parties. Outdoor children's games. Women teaching. Awkwardness of courting. Chatauquas. Auctions.

      Dates: May 19, 1975
      Container: Tape Box 5, Transcript Box 21
      Location: 40: Clyde, Lola Gamble. Interviewer: Sam Schrager
    • Description: (5)
      1.7 hr; 44p

      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.

      Dates: June 5, 1975
      Container: Tape Box 5, Transcript Box 21
      Location: 40: Clyde, Lola Gamble. Interviewer: Sam Schrager
    • Description: (6)
      1.7 hr; 25p

      Ignorance vs independence for young women. Children's lives and troubles. Difficult marriages. Pioneer sickness. Nez Perce myths. Bedtime stories and lullabyes.

      Dates: July 3, 1975
      Container: Tape Box 5, Transcript Box 21
      Location: 40: Clyde, Lola Gamble. Interviewer: Sam Schrager
    • Description: (7)
      2.5 hr; 80p

      Women's life in country compared to town. Women's civic achievements in Moscow. Women's teaching opportunities. Family size. Church activities; atitutes about dying. Social relations at university. Anti-German actions during war; Klan in the 1920s. IWW's in harvest. Frank B. Robinson.

      Dates: October 12, 1976
      Container: Tape Box 5, Transcript Box 21
      Location: 40: Clyde, Lola Gamble. Interviewer: Sam Schrager
    • Description: (8)
      .5 hr; no transcript

      Nez Perce lore and craft objects. (Presentation given to young people at the McConnell Museum).

      Dates: undated
      Container: Tape Box 5
      Location: 40: Clyde, Lola Gamble. Interviewer: Sam Schrager
    • Description: (9)
      .5 hr; no transcript

      Synopsis of Snow in the River, a novel by Carol Brink. (Practice tape made in preparation for public presentation).

      Dates: undated
      Container: Tape Box 5
      Location: 40: Clyde, Lola Gamble. Interviewer: Sam Schrager
    • Description: (10)
      .7 hr; no transcript

      McConnell mansion history. (Presentation given at McConnell mansion to Northwest History Group of Faculty Women's Club).

      Dates: 1972
      Container: Tape Box 5
      Location: 40: Clyde, Lola Gamble. Interviewer: Sam Schrager
    • Description: see also Gamble, Gus (1)
      Location: 40: Clyde, Lola Gamble. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

  • 41: Cornelison, Bernardine Adair

    Moscow 1897

    Singer and voice teacher; taught at the University of Idaho.

  • 42: Corrin, Glenn. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

    Troy 1890

    Parents came from South Dakota (1890).

    General laborer.

    • Description: (1)
      .9 hr; 12p

      Marshall Hays: his unpopularity and murder. Joe and Lou Wells. Driving supply wagon east of Troy (1906). Beauty of Bovill townsite.

      Dates: May 21, 1975
      Container: Tape Box 5, Transcript Box 21
      Location: 42: Corrin, Glenn. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

  • 43: Cox, Andrew

    American Ridge, Juliaetta 1902

    Parents came from Nova Scotia in 1890's.

    Farmer.

  • 44: Craig, Anna Vivan Hise. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

    Moscow 1887

    Came to South Idaho from Nebraska (1907), and after marriage to Orofino and Moscow.

    Teacher, homemaker.

  • 45: Crocker, Lester. Interviewer: Rob Moore

    Kendrick 1899

    Parents came from Pennsylvania and Kansas (early 1890's).

    Banker.

  • 46: Crow, Ada Hill. Interviewer: Laura Schrager

    Fourmile Creek, Viola 1880

    Family moved from Junction City, Oregon and homesteaded (1887).

    Farm wife.

    • Description: (1) with Velma Gertz (daughter)
      2 hr; 45p

      Family homesteading: farm produce and 1893 wet harvest. Viola events and settlers. Religious and social gatherings. Typhoid; smallpox. Getting married. Canadian homesteading (1912-1937).

      Dates: July 24, 1974
      Container: Tape Box 5, Transcript Box 21
      Location: 46: Crow, Ada Hill. Interviewer: Laura Schrager

  • 47: Crow, Charles. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

    Palouse, eastern Washington 1879

    Family homesteaded in the 1880's. Ada Crow's husband.

    Farmer, carpenter.

    • Description: (1)
      2.1 hr; 29p

      Driving horses across eastern Washington. Batching in a dugout as a boy. Rattlesnake lore. Fighting claim jumpers.

      Dates: July 24, 1974
      Container: Tape Box 5, Transcript Box 21
      Location: 47: Crow, Charles. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

  • 48: Currin, Walter. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

    Rimrock, Genesee 1904

    Father came in 1878 from the Willamette Valley, Oregon.

    Farmer and warehouseman.

    • Description: (1)
      1 hr; no transcript

      George Peopeoptalkt's friendship with family. Jackson Sundown. Local rodeos.

      Dates: March 17, 1976
      Container: Tape Box 5, Transcript
      Location: 48: Currin, Walter. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

  • 49: Daniels, Eva Slatter. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

    Cameron, Park, Agatha 1907

    Father came from New York City, mother from Missouri (c.1900).

    Teacher, farm wife.

    • Description: (1)
      2.1 hr; 47p

      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.

      Dates: April 29, 1976
      Container: Tape Box 5, Transcript Box 21
      Location: 49: Daniels, Eva Slatter. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

  • 50: Demus, Gus. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

    Potlatch 1892

    Emigrated from Greece to the Northwest in 1909, and settled in Potlatch in 1914.

    Trimmer at mill, laborer.

    • Description: (1)
      2.5 hr; 37p

      Working and living for Greeks in Potlatch; their social separation from Americans. Railroad labor in eastern Washington: boxcar living. Growing up in Dedemah. Departure of Greeks from Potlatch during depression.

      Dates: August 7, 1975
      Container: Tape Box 5, Transcript Box 21
      Location: 50: Demus, Gus. Interviewer: Sam Schrager
    • Description: (2)
      2 hr; 33p

      Loboring in the Northwest: language barrier, foreman-crew relations. Sending father back to Greece. Ten hour day at Potlatch. IWW radicalism. Getting ahead in America.

      Dates: September 12, 1975
      Container: Tape Box 5, Transcript Box 21
      Location: 50: Demus, Gus. Interviewer: Sam Schrager
    • Description: (3)
      2.5 hr; 47p

      Work as trimmer in mill: disagreements, foremen, sign language, accidents. Greek living arrangements and lack of security. Company profits. Prostitution.

      Dates: October 24, 1975
      Container: Tape Box 5, Transcript Box 21
      Location: 50: Demus, Gus. Interviewer: Sam Schrager
    • Description: (4)
      1.4 hr; 26p

      Brother's paranoia. Surviving the depression. Slow advancement in sawmill. Greek bachelors. Visiting Greece after retirement.

      Dates: September 24, 1976
      Container: Tape Box 5, Transcript Box 21
      Location: 50: Demus, Gus. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

  • 51: Denevan, Lucille Riddell. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

    Bovill 1900

    Grew up in Minnesota; came after completing training in Chicago (1919).

    Nurse, homemaker.

    • Description: (1)
      2 hr; 52p

      Nursing experiences in Bovill hospital. Decisions as a first aid nurse. Becoming a nurse despise opposition. Value of hard work.

      Dates: November 11, 1975
      Container: Tape Box 6, Transcript Box 21
      Location: 51: Denevan, Lucille Riddell. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

  • 52: Diamantis, John. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

    Elk River 1885

    Emigrated from Klitsos, Greece in 1909.

    Sawmiller, logger.

    • Description: (1)
      1 hr; no transcript

      Extra gang slavery. IWW victory. Dismantling of Elk River mill. Leaving Elk River.

      Dates: July 28, 1974
      Container: Tape Box 6, Transcript
      Location: 52: Diamantis, John. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

  • 53: Driscoll, Jennie Halverson. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

    Genesee, Lenville, Driscoll Ridge 1888

    Parents homesteaded after emigrating from Norway via Astoria (early 1880's).

    Farm wife.

    • Description: (1)
      1.5 hr; 26p

      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.

      Dates: February 17, 1976
      Container: Tape Box 6, Transcript Box 21
      Location: 53: Driscoll, Jennie Halverson. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

  • 54: East, John. Interviewer: Rob Moore

    Princeton, Moscow 1882

    Came from the Camas Prairie (late 1920's).

    Farmer, moonshiner.

  • 55: Edwards, Mary Grey. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

    Grey Eagle District, Genesee 1897

    Parents came from Nevada and Nebraska (1890's).

    Homemaker.

    • Description: (1)
      1.7 hr; 43p

      Family and neighbors in childhood. An Indian-white family. Dances. Life on the farm and in Genesee.

      Dates: November 3, 1976
      Container: Tape Box 6, Transcript Box 21
      Location: 55: Edwards, Mary Grey. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

  • 56: Eikum, John. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

    Cow Creek, Genesee 1888

    Family arrived in 1893 from Norway.

    Farmer.

    • Description: (1)
      2.8 hr; 44p

      Division of creek by two Lutheran churches. 1893 wet harvest and depression. Family farm life. Genesee stores and moving of town. World War I experience. Homesteading on Coeur d'Alene reservation.

      Dates: December 8, 1975
      Container: Tape Box 6, Transcript Box 21
      Location: 56: Eikum, John. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

  • 57: Erickson, Alfred. Interviewer: Laura Schrager

    Hog Meadows 1893

    Parents came from Minnesota (1892).

    Railroad worker.

    • Description: (1) with Lena Justice and May LeMarr (sisters)
      1 hr; 23p

      Pioneering on Hog Meadows; father's troubles. Girls' work. Killing a bear.

      Dates: July 26, 1974
      Container: Tape Box 6, Transcript Box 21
      Location: 57: Erickson, Alfred. Interviewer: Laura Schrager

  • 58: Estes, Willis. Interviewer: Laura Schrager

    Viola 1893

    Parents came from Iowa before he was born.

    Mail carrier; president of Idaho chapter of Rural Letter Carriers Association.

    • Description: (1)
      1.5 hr; 32p

      Delivering mail in rough conditions. Shoeing and working with horses. Responsability of the mails.

      Dates: July 9, 1974
      Container: Tape Box 6, Transcript Box 21
      Location: 58: Estes, Willis. Interviewer: Laura Schrager

  • 59: Fisher, Marie Leitch. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

    Bovill 1900

    Grew up at Nez Perce, Idaho.

    Teacher, homemaker.

    • Description: (1)
      2.6 hr; 62p

      Life of single teacher in the twenties. Bovill social activities. Teaching methods and experiences. Town characters. Depression in Bovill.

      Dates: October 29, 1975
      Container: Tape Box 6, Transcript Box 21
      Location: 59: Fisher, Marie Leitch. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

  • 60: Fleener, Dora Otter. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

    Rural Moscow 1894

    Family moved from South Dakota in 1902.

    Farm wife, housekeeper; author of Coming West from South Dakota.

    • Description: (1)
      1 hr; no transcript

      Home life as a girl. Mother's influence on household. Exclusion of women from animal husbandry at university. Fleener family's plains crossing (1852).

      Dates: August 21, 1973
      Container: Tape Box 6, Transcript
      Location: 60: Fleener, Dora Otter. Interviewer: Sam Schrager
    • Description: (2)
      1.5 hr; 29p

      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 remedies.

      Dates: December 16, 1974
      Container: Tape Box 6, Transcript Box 21
      Location: 60: Fleener, Dora Otter. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

  • 61: Flodin, Elmer. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

    Dry Ridge, Troy 1899

    Parents were Swedish homesteaders (early 1880's).

    Farmer, logger.

    • Description: (1)
      1 hr; 19p

      Survival of frontier homesteaders. Support of IWW despite opponents. Local strong men.

      Dates: June 25, 1974
      Container: Tape Box 6, Transcript Box 21
      Location: 61: Flodin, Elmer. Interviewer: Sam Schrager
    • Description: (2)
      1 hr; no transcript

      Destruction of land by fertilizer and logging. Olson family threshing; Wells family. Dry Ridge cemetery.

      Dates: January 10, 1975
      Container: Tape Box 6
      Location: 61: Flodin, Elmer. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

  • 62: Follett, Mahlon. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

    Genesee 1896

    Parents came from Minnesota in the 1880's.

    Operated general store.

    • Description: (1)
      2 hr; no transcript

      Follett's store. Flourishing and decline of Genesee. Socializing in town. Problems with credit. Genesee banks. Moving of townsite.

      Dates: May 3, 1976
      Container: Tape Box 6, Transcript
      Location: 62: Follett, Mahlon. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

  • 63: Fry, Frances Vaughan. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

    Cedar Creek, Kendrick 1893

    Family came from Kansas (1895).

    Farm wife, cook for woods crews, doctor's assistant, store clerk.

    • Description: (1)
      2 hr; 52p

      Canning and baking; feeding family and guests. Neighborhood sharing and visiting. A lazy family. Local religious life. Mother's farm work, and her own.

      Dates: August 3, 1976
      Container: Tape Box 6, Transcript Box 21
      Location: 63: Fry, Frances Vaughan. Interviewer: Sam Schrager
    • Description: (2)
      2 hr; 55p

      Her work to make ends meet. Raising children. Neighborhood life. Severe winters.

      Dates: February 18, 1977
      Container: Tape Box 6, Transcript Box 21
      Location: 63: Fry, Frances Vaughan. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

  • 64: Gamble, Daniel (Bert). Interviewer: Rob Moore

    Paradise Ridge 1887

    Lola Clyde's brother.

    Worked for woods produscts corporation; poet.

  • 65: Gamble, Gus. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

    Genesee, Paradise Ridge 1890

    Daniel Gamble's brother.

    Farmer.

    • Description: (1) with Lola Clyde (sister) and Bob Clyde (nephew)
      1.4 hr; no transcript

      Stories of Shorty Hill: his brother's lynching; murder on the Twenty-One Ranch. Wild Davey. Hemesteading near Elk River (1912).

      Dates: November 25, 1974
      Container: Tape Box 6, Transcript
      Location: 65: Gamble, Gus. Interviewer: Sam Schrager
    • Description: (2)
      1.1 hr; no transcript

      More about Shorty Hill. Harvest work as a boy.

      Dates: December 18, 1974
      Container: Tape Box 6, Transcript
      Location: 65: Gamble, Gus. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

  • 66: Gamble, W. J. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

    Potlatch 1884

    Came from Pennsylvania in 1910.

    General manager of WI&M Railroad for 33 years; lobbyist for North Idaho lumber interests in state legislature.

    • Description: (1)
      1.5 hr; 32p

      Selection of Potlatch for the lumber mill and townsite. Advantages of company town. Shipping resources on WI&M. Relations with other railroads. Working west from Pennsylvania. Problems of logging in Idaho Mountains. Decline of Potlatch.

      Dates: December 14, 1973
      Container: Tape Box 6, Transcript Box 21
      Location: 66: Gamble, W. J. Interviewer: Sam Schrager
    • Description: (2)
      1.9 hr; 40p

      Company operation of town of Potlatch. General Managers Deary and Laird. Dealing with the IWW. Company policies during the depression. Attitudes towards workingmen. Potlatch Japanese. Lobbying experiences. Weyerhaeuser family.

      Dates: June 6, 1975
      Container: Tape Box 6-7, Transcript Box 21
      Location: 66: Gamble, W. J. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

  • 67: Gilder, Agnes Clark

    Harvard, Spring Valley 1903

    Came with family from Seattle, Washington (1919).

    Farm wife.

  • 68: Gilder, Glen. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

    Harvard, Spring Valley 1901

    Parents came to the Washington Palouse country from Ontario and Iowa (c.1890).

    Farmer, laborer, boilerman.

    • Description: (1)
      1.8 hr; 29p

      Meaning of neighboring. Work and play. Hoodoo miners. Old Palouse River road. Father's farming.

      Dates: May 22, 1975
      Container: Tape Box 7, Transcript Box 21
      Location: 68: Gilder, Glen. Interviewer: Sam Schrager
    • Description: (2) see Nichols, George
      Location: 68: Gilder, Glen. Interviewer: Sam Schrager
    • Description: (3)
      2.5 hr; 32p

      Farm life versus city life. Tenacity of local people. Farmers' reliance on Potlatch mill. Selling milk in the depression. Mistreatment of Indians.

      Dates: June 17, 1975
      Container: Tape Box 7, Transcript Box 21
      Location: 68: Gilder, Glen. Interviewer: Sam Schrager
    • Description: (4) with Agnes Gilder (wife)
      2.5 hr; 49p

      Equality of farm families. Rural view of Potlatch. Marrying and raising children. Working-out while farming. Search for a missing man. Huckleberrying. Home remedies.

      Dates: July 29, 1975
      Container: Tape Box 7, Transcript Box 21
      Location: 68: Gilder, Glen. Interviewer: Sam Schrager
    • Description: (5) with Agnes Gilder
      1.8 hr; 29p

      Struggle to be an independent farmer: part-time farming, loss of farm in the thirties. A new start. First jobs.

      Dates: December 9, 1976
      Container: Tape Box 7, Transcript Box 21
      Location: 68: Gilder, Glen. Interviewer: Sam Schrager
    • Description: see also Wurman, Mamie
      Location: 68: Gilder, Glen. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

  • 69: Glenn, John (Bruce). Interviewer: Karen Purtee

    Potlatch Ridge, American Ridge, Juliaetta 1904

    Roy Glenn's brother.

    Oil deliveryman.

    • Description: (1) with Agnes Glenn (wife)
      1.8 hr; no transcript

      Farm self-sufficiency; farming equipment. Juliaetta and Kendrick. Dr. Ruffle. School and dances. Tramway.

      Dates: September 28, 1975
      Container: Tape Box 7, Transcript
      Location: 69: Glenn, John (Bruce). Interviewer: Karen Purtee

  • 70: Glenn, Mabel Richardson

    Texas Ridge, Fix Ridge, Juliaetta 1906

    Parents came from Oregon (1893).

    Farm wife, farmer.

  • 71: Glenn, Roy. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

    Texas Ridge, Potlatch Ridge, Kendrick 1903

    Family came from North Carolina (1904).

    Auctioneer, farmer.

    • Description: (1) and Mabel Glenn (wife)
      1.8 hr; 45p

      Farm living as youngsters. Boundary disputes. Developing farm as a rentor. Tension with German community during wars. Early Kendrick and Leland.

      Dates: November 18, 1976
      Container: Tape Box 7, Transcript Box 21
      Location: 71: Glenn, Roy. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

  • 72: Goff, Abe MacGregor. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

    Moscow, Washington, D.C. 1899

    Moved to Moscow to attend university; father homesteaded near Rosalia, Washington.

    Lawyer, state legislator, U.S. Congressman, chairman of Interstate Commerce Commission.

    • Description: (1)
      1.8 hr; 28p

      Prohibition in the county: moonshining, drinking and evangelism. Arson and robbery cases. Teddy Roosevelt's Moscow speech (1911). World War I at university; working through school. Family move west; father's fight against rustlers. Naming of Moscow.

      Dates: November 13, 1974
      Container: Tape Box 7, Transcript Box 21
      Location: 72: Goff, Abe MacGregor. Interviewer: Sam Schrager
    • Description: (2)
      1.6 hr; 36p

      Moscow court cases. Successful enforcement of prohibition. Depression in the county. Serving as legislator and congressman.

      Dates: November 26, 1974
      Container: Tape Box 7, Transcript Box 21
      Location: 72: Goff, Abe MacGregor. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

  • 73: Gorman, Madeleine Groh. Interviewer: Laura Schrager

    Bovill 1913

    Parents emigrated from Alsace, France and operated Bovill's mercantile store.

    Homemaker.

    • Description: (1)
      2 hr; 46p

      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.

      Dates: August 21, 1974
      Container: Tape Box 7, Transcript Box 21
      Location: 73: Gorman, Madeleine Groh. Interviewer: Laura Schrager

  • 74: Grannis, Kate Price. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

    Avon 1886

    Parents homesteaded (c.1885), coming from California and Kansas via Cheney, Washington.

    Homemaker, mica cutter, cook.

    • Description: (1)
      2.3 hr; 45p

      Homebound life of rural women. Neighboring. Homestead poverty. Work at mica mine. Wells family. An Avon murder.

      Dates: February 24, 1976
      Container: Tape Box 7, Transcript Box 21
      Location: 74: Grannis, Kate Price. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

  • 75: Groseclose, Dixie Baugh

    Potlatch River, Juliaetta 1900

    Came with family from Bland County, Virginia in 1907.

    Farm wife.

  • 76: Groseclose, Edward. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

    Potlatch River, Juliaetta 1900

    Came with family from Bland County, Virginia in 1902.

    Section man on railroad, farmer, poet.

    • Description: (1) and Dixie Groseclose (wife)
      2 hr; 51p

      Homesteading in Potlatch Canyon. Goodness of Nez Perces. Flooding of Potlatch River. Railroad work at Arrow Junction. Cedarville settlement.

      Dates: March 9, 1976
      Container: Tape Box 7, Transcript Box 21
      Location: 76: Groseclose, Edward. Interviewer: Sam Schrager
    • Description: (2) and Dixie Groseclose
      3 hr; 76p

      Family and community traditions from Virginia. Settling of Arrow by Virginia kin and neighbors. Her experiences as a youngster. Religious life. Misuse of blacks and Indians. Disputed strips of reservation land.

      Dates: June 1, 1976
      Container: Tape Box 7, Transcript Box 21
      Location: 76: Groseclose, Edward. Interviewer: Sam Schrager
    • Description: (3) and Dixie Groseclose
      3.6 hr; 96p

      Adversity: house fire, quarantine, making do. Courtship. Her work. Foster and Adams as promoters. Aunt Susan. Hoboes. Southern witches. Religious differences.

      Dates: July 21, 1976
      Container: Tape Box 8, Transcript Box 21
      Location: 76: Groseclose, Edward. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

  • 77: Grove, Clara Payne. Interviewer: (1) Emily Moore and (2-5) Sam Schrager

    Moscow, Troy 1879

    Born in Iowa, she lived in the Dakotas and Montana before coming in 1925.

    Editor, cook, nurse's aid, columnist; leader of Women's Christian Temperance Union.

  • 78: Gruell, Crystal Ottosen. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

    Juliaetta 1905

    Parents were raised in Denmark and Iowa, and came in 1908.

    Teacher, homemaker.

    • Description: (1) with Cecil Gruell (husband)
      2 hr; 54p

      Working at Juliaetta cannery. Local cherry industry. Teacher training and experience. Town church and social life; rivalry with Kendrick. Hard times.

      Dates: July 21, 1976
      Container: Tape Box 8, Transcript Box 22
      Location: 78: Gruell, Crystal Ottosen. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

  • 79: Guernsey, Viola Sheldon. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

    Princeton, Onaway 1894

    Family came from the Midwest via Nebraska (1910).

    Homemaker, grocery store operator.

    • Description: (1) with Getha Guptill (friend)
      1.8 hr; 31p

      Family's search for a new home. Attending Ursuline Academy. Teaching experience. Church activities; Reverend Dick Ferrell. Loss of store in the depression. Onaway.

      Dates: April 27, 1976
      Container: Tape Box 8, Transcript Box 22
      Location: 79: Guernsey, Viola Sheldon. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

  • 80: Guilfoy, Leo. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

    Bovill 1886

    An Irishman, he came from England in 1916.

    Scaler and treating plant operator at cedar pole yard.

    • Description: (1)
      1.5 hr; 42p

      Lumberjack humor: tales of Bill Deary, Bill Helmer, Pat Malone and others. Bear stories. Experiences as Scoutmaster. Bovill electric plant and movie house. Cedar pole work.

      Dates: December 10, 1973
      Container: Tape Box 8, Transcript Box 22
      Location: 80: Guilfoy, Leo. Interviewer: Sam Schrager
    • Description: (2)
      1.5 hr; 37p

      Origins of Lumberjack nicknames. IWW radicalism and blackballing. Refusing to join Four-L's. Spokane employment offices. Dick Ferrell; Axel Anderson.

      Dates: July 3, 1974
      Container: Tape Box 8, Transcript Box 22
      Location: 80: Guilfoy, Leo. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

  • 81: Gustin, Clay. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

    Helmer, Moscow Mountain 1900

    Parents probably came from Utah in the 1890s.

    Logger.

    • Description: (1)
      1 hr; no transcript

      Work on Park sleigh-haul and McGary Butte fire. Good ecology of early logging methods.

      Dates: July 25, 1973
      Container: Tape Box 8, Transcript
      Location: 81: Gustin, Clay. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

  • 82: Halen, Alben. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

    Big Bear Ridge, Deary 1896

    Parents were Swedish homesteaders (c.1890).

    Farmer, logger.

    • Description: (1)
      1.5 hr; 26p

      Farming with horses. Hard times for farmers. Logging for Potlatch. Farmer opposition to IWW.

      Dates: February 9, 1976
      Container: Tape Box 8, Transcript Box 22
      Location: 82: Halen, Alben. Interviewer: Sam Schrager
    • Description: (2)
      1.5 hr; 34p

      Working out as a boy. Fires and early growth of Deary. Joe Well's logging operation. Piling lumber. Grave digging.

      Dates: February 20, 1976
      Container: Tape Box 8, Transcript Box 22
      Location: 82: Halen, Alben. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

  • 83: Halseth, Edward. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

    Big Bear Ridge, Jansville 1894

    Parents were Norwegian homesteaders (1890's).

    Farmer.

  • 84: Hampton, Elvon. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

    Grey Eagle District, Genesee 1911

    Parents came from North Carolina in the late 1880's.

    Farmer.

    • Description: (1)
      1.8 hr; 42p

      Father's management of Genesee's largest farm operation. Rotation of crops and livestock. Hired hands. Rural isolation; chatauquas. Choice of farming career.

      Dates: May 3, 1976
      Container: Tape Box 8, Transcript Box 22
      Location: 84: Hampton, Elvon. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

  • 85: Handlin, Nellie Tomer. Interviwer: Laura Schrager

    Moscow 1897

    Father's parents were among the county's first settlers, coming from California in 1871; mother was from Indiana.

    Homemaker, cashier.

    • Description: (1)
      1 hr; no transcript

      Tomers' pioneering. Relations with Nez Perces. Selection of Moscow Cemetery site. School and reading as a girl.

      Dates: December 17, 1973
      Container: Tape Box 8, Transcript
      Location: 85: Handlin, Nellie Tomer. Interviwer: Laura Schrager

  • 86: Hardt, Verna Palmer. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

    Viola 1905

    Grandfather first came to the region with Captain Mullan's Army outfit (c. 1858); parents' families both moved from Oregon (1876 and 1880).

    Homemaker.

    • Description: (1)
      2 hr; 49p

      Family adventures, migration and settling. Viola events. Cattle herding experiences. Indians. Chinese miners. (Tape recorded by Mrs. Hardt for her brother, Glen Palmer, who was the doner.)

      Dates: undated
      Container: Tape Box 8, Transcript Box 22
      Location: 86: Hardt, Verna Palmer. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

  • 87: Hazeltine, Mabel Oliver. Interviewer: Laura Schrager

    Fourmile Creek, Viola 1901

    Parents came from Sprague, Washington area (1901).

    Farm wife.

  • 88: Herrmann, Beulah Dollar. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

    Moscow, Troy 1900

    Moved from Colorado (1928).

    Clerk for Psychianna.

  • 89: Herzog, Frank. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

    Harvard 1898

    Came with parents from Pennsylvania in 1900.

    Logger, farmer, trapper.

  • 90: Hickman, William (Dave)

    Genesee 1900

    Father came from North Carolina (1888); mother's family came from Wisconsin (1881).

    Soil conservationist.

  • 91: Holland, Joseph. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

    Bovill 1900

    Grew up in South Dakota and Saskatchewan.

    Depot agent at Bovill (1925-66); school board chairman, mayor, justice of the peace.

    • Description: (1)
      2 hr; 41p

      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.

      Dates: July 25, 1974
      Container: Tape Box 8, Transcript Box 22
      Location: 91: Holland, Joseph. Interviewer: Sam Schrager
    • Description: (2)
      2.6 hr; 47p

      Railroad work and anecdotes. Local attitudes toward Potlatch Lumber Company. Conflict over school consolidation; problems of running town. CCC's. The depot clock.

      Dates: August 23, 1974
      Container: Tape Box 8-9, Transcript Box 22
      Location: 91: Holland, Joseph. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

  • 92: Hove, Palma Hanson. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

    Cow Creek, Genesee 1893

    Mother was raised in Norway, father in Wisconsin. They arrived in the 1880's.

    Farm wife, harvest cook.

    • Description: (1)
      2 hr; 48p

      Cook wagon at harvesttime. Family farm life. Division of Cow Creek by two Lutheran churches. Young people's socializing. Early Genesee.

      Dates: June 13, 1975
      Container: Tape Box 9, Transcript Box 22
      Location: 92: Hove, Palma Hanson. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

  • 93: Ingle, Florence Hupp. Interviewer: Rob Moore

    Big Bear Ridge, Little Bear Ridge, Kendrick 1884

    Family came from California and homesteaded (1886).

    Teacher, farm wife.

  • 94: Ingle, Gerald. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

    Big Bear Ridge, Kendrick 1910

    Son of Florence Ingle. Grandfather was a homesteader from Tennesee (1883).

    County commissioner for 20 years, farmer.

    • Description: (1)
      2.7 hr; 73p

      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.

      Dates: October 7, 1976
      Container: Tape Box 9, Transcript Box 22
      Location: 94: Ingle, Gerald. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

  • 95: Jackson, Alice Henry. Interviewer: Rob Moore

    Lapwai 1885

    Mother was Nez Perce; father moved from Asotin County, Washington (c. 1890).

    Farm wife.

  • 96: Jelleberg, Charles. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

    Park 1900

    Parents were Norwegian homesteaders (c. 1890).

    Horse teamster, sawmiller.

    • Description: (1) and Carl Lancaster (friend)
      2 hr; 72p

      Handling teams; balky horses. Logging accidents and narrow escapes. Foremen; incompetent partners. Abortive IWW strike of 1936. Pay and production. Closeness of homesteaders.

      Dates: August 8, 1973
      Container: Tape Box 9, Transcript Box 22
      Location: 96: Jelleberg, Charles. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

  • 97: Johnson, Clarence. Interviewer: Rob Moore

    Burnt Ridge, Troy 1895

    Parents were homesteaders from Sweden (1884).

    Farmer.

  • 98: Johnson, Della Beardsley. Interviewer: Rob Moore

    Rural Moscow, Moscow 1887

    Family came from California (1903).

    Farm wife, dressmaker.

  • 99: Johnson, Hattie Wilken. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

    Cameron 1897

    Parents were German homesteaders (1886).

    Farm wife, hotel and house maid.

    • Description: (1)
      2.5 hr; 67p

      Family work and neighboring. Anti-German wartime sentiment. German Lutheran Church and language. Feeding threshing crews. Work at Portland's Multnomah Hotel.

      Dates: August 4, 1976
      Container: Tape Box 9, Transcript Box 22
      Location: 99: Johnson, Hattie Wilken. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

  • 100: Johnson, Oscar. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

    Troy 1901

    Came with father from Sweden in 1910.

    Worked at firebrick plant for forty years.

  • 101: Johnson, Walter. Interviewer: Rob Moore

    Moscow 1892

    Parents were Swedish immigrants who moved from Minnesota (1882).

    Accountant.

  • 102: Jones, Agnes Healy. Interviewer: (1) Rob Moore and (2,3)Sam Schrager

    Thorn Creek, Genesee 1890

    Mother's parents (Tierneys) were the first white settlers of the Genesee area, coming from Kansas in 1870; father emigrated from Ireland (early 1870's).

    Farm wife, waitress.

  • 103: Justice, Albert. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

    Bovill area 1898

    Family moved to Spokane from North Dakota (1905).

    Head cook in lumbercamps between the two world wars.

    • Description: (1)
      3 hr; 73p

      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.

      Dates: August 23, 1974
      Container: Tape Box 9, Transcript Box 22
      Location: 103: Justice, Albert. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

  • 104: Justice, Lena (Molly) Erickson. Interviewer: Laura Schrager

    Hog Meadows, Bovill 1901

    Parents came from Minnesota (1892). Albert Justice's wife.

    Logging camp flunkey, homemaker.

  • 105: Kauder, William. Interviewer: Rob Moore

    Cedar Creek, Southwick 1868

    Homesteaded alongside parents, after moving from Illinois (1889).

    Farmer.

    • Description: (1)
      1 hr; 16p

      1893 depression. Getting settled; help from neighbors. Political views of 1890's. Entertainment. Land clearing. Kendrick.

      Dates: February 13, 1974
      Container: Tape Box 9, Transcript Box 22
      Location: 105: Kauder, William. Interviewer: Rob Moore
    • Description: (2)
      1 hr; 14p

      Developing the homestead. Pioneering ways. Available work.

      Dates: May 3, 1974
      Container: Tape Box 9, Transcript Box 22
      Location: 105: Kauder, William. Interviewer: Rob Moore
    • Description: (3)
      .7 hr; 9p

      Struggles of homesteading. Opening reservation to homesteading. Coming west.

      Dates: June 1, 1974
      Container: Tape Box 9, Transcript Box 22
      Location: 105: Kauder, William. Interviewer: Rob Moore

  • 106: Kellberg, Ruth Anderson. Interviewer: Laura Schrager

    Burnt Ridge, Troy 1899

    Parents were Swedish homesteaders (1890).

    Farm wife.

  • 107: Kent, Edward. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

    American Ridge, Juliaetta 1889

    Came with mother from Nova Scotia in 1898.

    Farmer, cowboy.

    • Description: (1) and Andrew Cox (half-brother)
      1.3 hr; no transcript

      Farming on American Ridge. Early impressions of Idaho. Cowboy work. Nez Perces on the Potlatch. Juliaetta. Preaching and schools.

      Dates: August 10, 1976
      Container: Tape Box 9, Transcript
      Location: 107: Kent, Edward. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

  • 108: Lancaster, Carl. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

    Helmer, Harvard 1902

    Parents came from Pennsylvania before he was born.

    Logger, woods blacksmith and maintenance man.

  • 109: Lawrence, Floyd. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

    Jansville, Helmer 1898

    Family came from Iowa and homesteaded on McGary Meadow (1893).

    Logger, operator of dance pavilion.

    • Description: (1) and Nona Lawrence (wife)
      2.4 hr; 69p

      Jansville store on the Lawrence homestead. Beginning of Helmer. Operating a popular dancehall. Timber homesteaders. Gyppo logging for Potlatch. Joe and Lou Wells.

      Dates: January 21, 1976
      Container: Tape Box 10, Transcript Box 22
      Location: 109: Lawrence, Floyd. Interviewer: Sam Schrager
    • Description: (2) and Nona Lawrence, with Carl Lancaster (brother-in-law) and Laura May Lancaster (sister-in-law)
      2.2 hr; 64p

      Neighborliness and poverty of homesteaders. Local inventors. Cattle on open range. Working when young. Malker Anderson.

      Dates: January 27, 1976
      Container: Tape Box 10, Transcript Box 22
      Location: 109: Lawrence, Floyd. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

  • 110: Lawrence, Nona Wilkins

    Helmer 1898

    Parents came from Kentucky and ran pioneer store at Helmer.

    Farm wife, operator of dance hall pavilion.

  • 111: Leland, Ruth. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

    Juliaetta 1890

    Moved from Wyoming with family (1906).

    Store clerk, minister of United Brethren Church.

    • Description: (1)
      1.5 hr; 21p

      Local church history and revivals. Children's Day. Nez Perce Christianity. Discrimination against Nez Perces. Alexander's Store. Foster School of Healing.

      Dates: May 25, 1976
      Container: Tape Box 10, Transcript Box 22
      Location: 111: Leland, Ruth. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

  • 112: LeMarr, May Erickson

    Hog Meadows 1907

    Logging camp flunkey, homemaker.

  • 113: Lepard, George. Interviewer: Sandie Gittel

    Potlatch 1899

    Family came in 1906 after living elsewhere in North Idaho.

    Grocer.

    • Description: (1)
      .8 hr; no transcript

      Potlatch town and mill. Father's medical practice. (Interview donated by his son, George Lepard.)

      Dates: February 14, 1974
      Container: Tape Box 10, Transcript
      Location: 113: Lepard, George. Interviewer: Sandie Gittel

  • 114: Lew, Marie Lee

    Moscow 1910

    Came to Spokane from China in 1920.

    Restaurateur.

  • 115: Lew, Mi. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

    Moscow 1905

    Came to Walla Walla from China with his father in 1911.

    Restaurateur.

    • Description: (1) and Marie Lew (wife)
      1.6 hr; 44p

      Reasons Chinese came to America. Their fathers' early American experiences. Growing up in Walla Walla. Cooperative truck gardening. Herb doctoring in Spokane. Family structure. Subsistence farming in China.

      Dates: November 20, 1975
      Container: Tape Box 10, Transcript Box 22
      Location: 115: Lew, Mi. Interviewer: Sam Schrager
    • Description: (2) and Marie Lew
      1.5 hr; 39p

      Role of Christianity in adapting to America. Loans and debts. Running Moscow café in the depression. Return to China in 1929. Spokane Chinese community. Tongs.

      Dates: December 10, 1975
      Container: Tape Box 10, Transcript Box 22
      Location: 115: Lew, Mi. Interviewer: Sam Schrager
    • Description: (3) and Marie Lew
      1.9 hr; 54p

      Separation of families. Her immigration to America. Chinese community building in Walla Walla. Social controls within community. Life of truck gardeners.

      Dates: January 20, 1976
      Container: Tape Box 10, Transcript Box 22
      Location: 115: Lew, Mi. Interviewer: Sam Schrager
    • Description: (4) and Marie Lew
      2 hr; 57p

      Discrimination in the twenties. Universities' social activities for Asians in Moscow and Pullman. Restaurant work. Fate of people returning to China. Youth in Walla Walla.

      Dates: October 7, 1976
      Container: Tape Box 10, Transcript Box 22
      Location: 115: Lew, Mi. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

  • 116: Long, F. Marvin. Interviewer: (1,2) Rob Moore and (3) Lee Magnuson

    Kendrick, Cedar Creek, Leland 1894

    Family moved from North Carolina (1888).

    Operator of mercantile store.

  • 117: Long, Martha Lowery. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

    Kendrick, eastern Washington 1903

    Parents came from North Dakota and homesteaded near Quincy, Washington (1902).

    Extension specialist for Chelan County and Washington state; homemaker, teacher.

    • Description: (1)
      2 hr; 61p

      Youth on a drought-stricken homestead. Family holiday customs. Mother's character. Family move to Pullman. Attending Washington State College.

      Dates: October 25, 1976
      Container: Tape Box 10, Transcript Box 22
      Location: 117: Long, Martha Lowery. Interviewer: Sam Schrager
    • Description: (2) with Marvin Long (husband)
      3 hr; 85p

      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.

      Dates: November 18, 1976
      Container: Tape Box 10, Transcript Box 22
      Location: 117: Long, Martha Lowery. Interviewer: Sam Schrager
    • Description: (3)
      .3 hr; no transcript

      Historical roses of the Kendrick area. (Presentation prepared as project of Hill and Valley Garden Club, with accompanying slides.)

      Dates: December 9, 1976
      Container: Tape Box 10, Transcript
      Location: 117: Long, Martha Lowery. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

  • 118: Lynd, Mary West

    Palouse 1895

    Moved with family from Illinois in 1904.

    Farm wife.

  • 119: Mahon, Catherine. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

    Juliaetta, Lewiston-Clarkston 1906

    Father, a New York Irishman, was manager of Juliaetta cannery; mother came from Oregon (1884)

    Operator of greenhouse and beauty salon, teacher.

    • Description: (1)
      .8 hr; 18p

      Limited opportunities for women. Local Jewish families. Books and culture. Southerners in the West.

      Dates: August 27, 1976
      Container: Tape Box 10, Transcript Box 22
      Location: 119: Mahon, Catherine. Interviewer: Sam Schrager
    • Description: (2)
      3.5 hr; 84p

      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.

      Dates: September 27, 1976
      Container: Tape Box 10, Transcript Box 22
      Location: 119: Mahon, Catherine. Interviewer: Sam Schrager
    • Description: (3)
      3.1 hr, 75p

      Progressive upbringing in a close family. Openness and equality in the West. Development of Clarkston townsite by proper Bostonians; Clarkston society. Ku Klux Klan; race prejudice. German Catholics. Mother's work as Tribune correspondent.

      Dates: October 21, 1976
      Container: Tape Box 10, Transcript Box 22
      Location: 119: Mahon, Catherine. Interviewer: Sam Schrager
    • Description: (4)
      4 hr; 102p

      Cannery management and role in Juliaetta life. Work of beauticians in Lewiston. Unpleasant teaching experience. Abuses of children's welfare. Closeness to father. Lewiston Jewish families.

      Dates: November 11, 1976
      Container: Tape Box 11, Transcript Box 22
      Location: 119: Mahon, Catherine. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

  • 120: Maloney, Joe

    Spokane, North Idaho 1892

    Came from Pennsylvania in 1915.

    Employment agent, camp foreman.

  • 121: Martin, Roy. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

    North Idaho 1908

    "Roy Martin" is a pseudonym.

    Hobo, lumberjack, laborer.

    • Description: (1)
      3.6 hr; 71p

      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 Phillipines.

      Dates: July 2, 1976
      Container: Tape Box 11, Transcript Box 22
      Location: 121: Martin, Roy. Interviewer: Sam Schrager
    • Description: (2)
      1.8 hr; 26p

      Importance of IWW. Good-hearted prostitutes. Hoboes and freight hopping. Employment sharks.

      Dates: July 30, 1976
      Container: Tape Box 11, Transcript Box 22
      Location: 121: Martin, Roy. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

  • 122: McKeever, George. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

    Kendrick 1897

    Family came from Missouri in the 1890's.

    Dentist.

    • Description: (1)
      2 hr; no transcript

      Practicing dentistry in Kendrick. Kendrick foundings, fire and flood. Hard work as youth. Chinese in Kendrick. Masonic Lodge. Advantages of small town.

      Dates: August 4, 1976
      Container: Tape Box 11, Transcript
      Location: 122: McKeever, George. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

  • 123: Messersmith, Hazel Bramlett

    Lapwai 1888

    Parents were early settlers of Dayton, Washington area.

    Homemaker, worked in post office and store.

  • 124: Messersmith, Lewis. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

    Lapwai 1889

    Learned trade in Pennsylvania; came West in 1905.

    Blacksmith.

    • Description: (1) and Hazel Messersmith (wife)
      1.7 hr; 40p

      Len Henry, the famous liar. Blacksmith work and inventions. Shop fire and depression survival. Attitudes towards Nez Perces. Aunt Kate MacBeth and Jenny Barton. Lapwai's decline.

      Dates: January 21, 1975
      Container: Tape Box 11, Transcript Box 22
      Location: 124: Messersmith, Lewis. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

  • 125: Milbert, Frank. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

    Gold Hill, Potlatch 1907

    Came west from Pennsylvania in the twenties.

    Gold miner.

    • Description: (1)
      2.5 hr; 54p

      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.

      Dates: June 18, 1975
      Container: Tape Box 11, Transcript Box 22
      Location: 125: Milbert, Frank. Interviewer: Sam Schrager
    • Description: (2)
      3 hr; 58p

      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.

      Dates: June 20, 1975
      Container: Tape Box 11, Transcript Box 22
      Location: 125: Milbert, Frank. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

  • 126: Miller, John B. Interviewer: Sam Schrager and Rob Moore

    Bovill 1912

    Parents came from Minnesota (1902).

    Geologist; author of The Trees Grew Tall (1972), Bovill area history.

    • Description: (1)
      1.7 hr; 47p

      Bovill's nature as a logging town. Causes for its decline. Deputy Pat Malone. Mother's hard workday. Gathering historical material; appeal of the past.

      Dates: July 18, 1973
      Container: Tape Box 11, Transcript Box 22
      Location: 126: Miller, John B. Interviewer: Sam Schrager and Rob Moore

  • 127: Moody, George (Hap). Interviewer: Sam Schrager

    Moscow 1885

    Came from Vermont (1914).

    County deputy and sheriff (1922-1955); famous university football booster.

    • Description: (1) with Bertha Moody (wife)
      2 hr; 36p

      Impersonating lawbreakers. Trackdowns and arrests. Prohibition drinking and moonshining. Policing strikes: resisting bribes. Cooperation among lawmen. Prisoners and county jail. University football.

      Dates: February 28, 1974
      Container: Tape Box 11, Transcript Box 23
      Location: 127: Moody, George (Hap). Interviewer: Sam Schrager

  • 128: Moore, Elsie Adair. Interviewer: Laura Schrager

    Bovill, Princeton 1899

    Father came from Oregon in 1882.

    Homemaker.

  • 129: Morgan, William. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

    Lewiston and vicinity 1895

    Parents farmed near Nezperce after leaving Kansas (1898).

    Owner of Morgan Brothers, food and equipment distributors.

  • 130: Morris, Mabell Nickell. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

    Elk River, Potlatch 1887

    Came from central Canada in 1907.

    Drugstore operator, homemaker.

    • Description: (1) with Lillian Yangel (daughter) and Chester Yangel (son-in-law)
      3.3 hr; 70p

      The T.P. Jones's. Elk River drugstore. Lumberjacks. Town social activities and isolation. Devasting impact of mill removal. Elk River before the mill. Potlatch mercantine store.

      Dates: May 14, 1976
      Container: Tape Box 11, Transcript Box 23
      Location: 130: Morris, Mabell Nickell. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

  • 131: Muhsal, Edward. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

    Potlatch 1903

    Father was sent by company from Wisconsin (1908).

    Sawmiller.

    • Description: (1)
      2 hr; 52p

      Deathes in mill accidents. Working at the mill. Social life. Good work of IWW's. Foreign groups. Wartime prejudice against Germans.

      Dates: September 16, 1975
      Container: Tape Box 11, Transcript Box 23
      Location: 131: Muhsal, Edward. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

  • 132: Munden, Mamie Sardam

    Lewiston, Clarkston 1906

    Mother's family came from Missouri (1886), father from Nebraska (c.1894).

    Farm wife.

  • 133: Murphy, Dan. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

    Bovill area 1887

    Came from Wisconsin in 1908.

    Logging clerk, scales and cedar pole inspector.

    • Description: (1) and Joe Maloney (friend)
      1.6 hr; 45p

      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.

      Dates: August 22, 1974
      Container: Tape Box 12, Transcript Box 23
      Location: 133: Murphy, Dan. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

  • 134: Nelson, Elsie. Interviewer: Laura Schrager

    Moscow 1890

    Parents were Swedish homesteaders (1886).

    Head cook at Hotel Moscow, teacher; author of Today Is Ours.

    • Description: (1)
      1.5 hr; 6p

      Moscow beginnings and existence as a pioneer town. Homesteaders' relation to Moscow.

      Dates: March 14, 1974
      Container: Tape Box 12, Transcript Box 23
      Location: 134: Nelson, Elsie. Interviewer: Laura Schrager
    • Description: (2)
      1.5 hr; 6p

      Swedish Christmas. Indians and other cultural groups. Homestead economics; father's railroading.

      Dates: March 27, 1974
      Container: Tape Box 12, Transcript Box 23
      Location: 134: Nelson, Elsie. Interviewer: Laura Schrager

  • 135: Newman, Ida Mielke. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

    Cameron 1898

    Parents were German pioneers who came from Minnesota in 1901.

    Farm wife, teacher; author of History of Cameron, Idaho.

    • Description: (1)
      2 hr; 63p

      Family stress on education and equality. Life in a German community. Games, dances and literaries. Patriotism and tensions in First World War. Attending and teaching school.

      Dates: February 18, 1977
      Container: Tape Box 12, Transcript Box 23
      Location: 135: Newman, Ida Mielke. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

  • 136: Nichols, George. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

    Harvard 1888

    Came from Deer Park, Washington to work on building of WI&M railroad (1904).

    Laborer.

    • Description: (1) and Frank Herzog, Glen Gilder (friends)
      3 hr; 74p

      Early settlement on Palouse River. Arrival of Potlatch Lumber Company. Logging, river drives, foremen; contribution of IWWs. Harvard's beginning. Hoodoo mining ventures. An ostracized family. Bee trees and trapping. Evil of corporations and politicians.

      Dates: May 28, 1975
      Container: Tape Box 12, Transcript Box 23
      Location: 136: Nichols, George. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

  • 137: Nordby, Rudolph. Interviewer: Rob Moore

    Cow Creek, Genesee 1889

    Family came from Iowa (1900).

    County commissioner for eighteen years; farmer.

  • 138: Nye, Maeci Groseclose. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

    Juliaetta 1895

    Came with parents from Kentucky (1903).

    Teacher, farmer, farm wife; author of manuscript history of Juliaetta.

    • Description: (1)
      1.5 hr; 43p

      Foster's hospital and Juliaetta's decline. Father's undertaking business. Abraham Adams. Juliaetta: celebrations and fires. Spiritualists. Dislike of teaching.

      Dates: March 11, 1976
      Container: Tape Box 12, Transcript Box 23
      Location: 138: Nye, Maeci Groseclose. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

  • 139: Olson, Carl. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

    Dry Ridge, Troy 1895

    Parents emigrated from Sweden and homesteaded (1889).

    Thresherman, operator of gas station and car dealership, sawmiller, miner; Troy councilman for 24 years.

    • Description: (1)
      1.5 hr; 37p

      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.

      Dates: August 6, 1973
      Container: Tape Box 12, Transcript Box 23
      Location: 139: Olson, Carl. Interviewer: Sam Schrager
    • Description: (2)
      1.5 hr; 25p

      Food and water on family homestead. Clearing land. Road building. Homestead ethics. Town of Nora. Tramps.

      Dates: August 17, 1973
      Container: Tape Box 12, Transcript Box 23
      Location: 139: Olson, Carl. Interviewer: Sam Schrager
    • Description: (3)
      2 hr; 40p

      More local characters. Impact of depression. Blaming smut fires on IWW. How environment shapes people. Unusual personal experiences. Social problems. City council.

      Dates: November 8, 1973
      Container: Tape Box 12, Transcript Box 23
      Location: 139: Olson, Carl. Interviewer: Sam Schrager
    • Description: (4)
      2.5 hr; 67p

      Threshing on the ridges in the twenties. Difficulties selling cars. Service station during depression. Struggles of homesteaders. Work in small sawmills.

      Dates: February 21, 1975
      Container: Tape Box 12, Transcript Box 23
      Location: 139: Olson, Carl. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

  • 140: Olson, Ella Olson. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

    Pleasant Hill, Troy 1897

    Father came from Sweden (1884), mother from Norway (1887).

    Cook, pea processor, housekeeper, homemaker.

    • Description: (1)
      1.2 hr; 27p

      Cooking for sawmill and threshing crews. Life of country youths. Marriage. Spokane housekeeping. Mica cutting and pea picking. Depression.

      Dates: October 1, 1976
      Container: Tape Box 12, Transcript Box 23
      Location: 140: Olson, Ella Olson. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

  • 141: Olson, Hazel Hill

    Deary 1920

    Moved from central Idaho in the early forties.

    Homemaker, teacher, camp flunkey.

  • 142: Olson, Margaret

    Deary 1910

    Teacher.

  • 143: Olson, Oscar. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

    Deary 1906

    Father was a Swedish homesteader (1890's).

    Foreman, scaler, logger.

    • Description: (1) and Hazel Olson (wife)
      2 hr; 77p

      Living in a lumbercamp. Pleasures of flunkeying. Violent Pierce strike (1936). Lumberjack nicknames. Unmarried women teachers. Father's mistreatment of Sweden. Depression hardships.

      Dates: June 16, 1976
      Container: Tape Box 12, Transcript Box 23
      Location: 143: Olson, Oscar. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

  • 144: Olson, Ruth. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

    Deary 1906

    Parents came from Minnesota and homesteaded (1907).

    Teacher.

    • Description: (1) and Margaret Olson (sister)
      1.5 hr; no transcript

      Teaching and teachers' authority in small communities. Choice of career and training. Entertainment for young. Play and chores on homestead. Decline of small towns.

      Dates: June 16, 1976
      Container: Tape Box 12, Transcript
      Location: 144: Olson, Ruth. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

  • 145: Oslund, Anna Marie Anderson. Interviewer: Laura Schrager and Sam Schrager

    Troy, Nora Creek 1891

    Emigrated from Sweden with family in 1903.

    Teacher, homemaker; author of manuscript on Troy area history.

  • 146: Otness, Lillian Woodworth. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

    Moscow 1908

    Grandfather was an original founder of Moscow, moving from eastern Oregon (1871); father came from Montana (1877).

    Teacher of English and physical education in college and high school; homemaker.

    • Description: (1)
      1 hr; 20p

      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.

      Dates: January 6, 1975
      Container: Tape Box 12, Transcript Box 23
      Location: 146: Otness, Lillian Woodworth. Interviewer: Sam Schrager
    • Description: (2)
      2 hr; 40p

      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.

      Dates: January 16, 1975
      Container: Tape Box 12-13, Transcript Box 23
      Location: 146: Otness, Lillian Woodworth. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

  • 147: Paolini, Pete. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

    Elk River, Lewiston 1903

    Came from Italy in 1920.

    Sawmiller, lumberjack.

    • Description: (1)
      1.4 hr; 33p

      Company pressures; importance of union. Lumberjack unity and woods life. Elk River in the twenties. Depression hardships. Life near Florence. First years in America.

      Dates: October 21, 1976
      Container: Tape Box 13, Transcript Box 23
      Location: 147: Paolini, Pete. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

  • 148: Parker, Naomi Boll. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

    Bovill 1906

    Parents took a timber homestead after coming from Wisconsin (1905).

    Homemaker, raised cattle and silver fox.

    • Description: (1)
      3 hr; 80p

      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.

      Dates: September 1, 1976
      Container: Tape Box 13, Transcript Box 23
      Location: 148: Parker, Naomi Boll. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

  • 149: Phelan, Amanda Asplund. Interviewer: Karen Purtee

    Dry Ridge, Troy 1887

    Philip Asplund's sister.

    Farm wife, housekeeper.

    • Description: (1) with Addie Swanson (daughter)
      1 hr; no transcript

      Childbirths. Childhood experiences and fears. Farm food and visiting. Mother's work. Town trips. Housekeeping in Spokane.

      Dates: January 3, 1976
      Container: Tape Box 13, Transcript
      Location: 149: Phelan, Amanda Asplund. Interviewer: Karen Purtee

  • 150: Pierce, Albert. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

    Deary, Texas Ridge 1889

    Moved from Minnesota with family (1904).

    Operated Deary store and farmed.

    • Description: (1)
      1.6 hr; 35p

      Deary townsite and fire. Problems of a general store. Old homesteaders. Two murders. Family moves. Potlatch manipulations.

      Dates: August 22, 1974
      Container: Tape Box 13, Transcript Box 23
      Location: 150: Pierce, Albert. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

  • 151: Pierce, Selina Smith. Interviewer: Laura Schrager

    Deary 1893

    Came from New York after marriage to Albert Pierce (1920).

    Homemaker, operated grocery store.

  • 152: Platt, E. J. (Tom). Interviewer: Sam Schrager

    Genesee, Salmon River (1903)

    Father's family came from Wisconsin (1881), mother's from Kansas (1894).

    Livestock operator.

    • Description: (1) and William Hickman (cousin), Kenneth Platt (brother)
      2.5 hr; 60p

      Introduction of purebred Herefords by Platt 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.

      Dates: December 3, 1974
      Container: Tape Box 13, Transcript Box 23
      Location: 152: Platt, E. J. (Tom). Interviewer: Sam Schrager

  • 153: Platt, Kenneth

    Genesee, Salmon River 1907

    Specialist in U.S. Department of Agriculture; author, poet and local historian.

  • 154: Platz, Ima Hodge. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

    Palouse 1888

    Came from Missouri with parents.

    Harvest cook, farm wife.

  • 155: Presby, Curtis. Interviewer: Marilyn Chaney

    Viola 1913

    Parents came from Colfax, Washington, and from the Coeur d'Alene district (1912).

    Farmer, lumber grader.

    • Description: (1) with Astrid Presby (wife)
      1 hr; no transcript

      Making a living in early days. Neighboring. Self-doctoring. (Interview donated by Marilyn Chaney).

      Dates: undated
      Container: Tape Box 13, Transcript
      Location: 155: Presby, Curtis. Interviewer: Marilyn Chaney

  • 156: Ramsdale, Edward. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

    American Ridge, Troy 1896

    Emigrated from Eikefjord, Norway (1913).

    Farmer.

  • 157: Ringsage, Helmer. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

    Park, Central Ridge 1888

    Parents were Norwegian homesteaders (1890); he is Edward Swenson's nephew.

    Farmer, logger.

    • Description: (1)
      1.9 hr; 49p

      Mother's death. Woods work in winter. Raising crops and hogs. Hard living at Park (1924-32). Serious accidents.

      Dates: February 12, 1976
      Container: Tape Box 13, Transcript Box 23
      Location: 157: Ringsage, Helmer. Interviewer: Sam Schrager
    • Description: (2)
      2.4 hr; 64p

      Running away from home. Struggle with a bad neighbor. Family homesteading on the ridge. Country dances.

      Dates: February 27, 1976
      Container: Tape Box 13, Transcript Box 23
      Location: 157: Ringsage, Helmer. Interviewer: Sam Schrager
    • Description: (3)
      2.1 hr; 56p

      Courtship with wife. Farming for others. Sack sewing in hard times. Work as a boy. Dangerous grade to Clearwater River. Wild Indian ponies.

      Dates: March 5, 1976
      Container: Tape Box 13, Transcript Box 23
      Location: 157: Ringsage, Helmer. Interviewer: Sam Schrager
    • Description: (4)
      1.4 hr; 37p

      Father's strictness. Fighting as a boy. Education in Spokane and Moscow. Farming on Central Ridge. Division of father's estate. Moscow in the thirties.

      Dates: April 1, 1976
      Container: Tape Box 13, Transcript Box 23
      Location: 157: Ringsage, Helmer. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

  • 158: Ringsage, Jean Wilson. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

    Park, Alberta, British Columbia 1905

    Moved to Idaho with husband in 1933.

    Farm wife, teacher, nurse's aide.

    • Description: (1) and Stiner Ringsage (husband)
      5.5 hr; 149p

      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.

      Dates: October 5, 1976
      Container: Tape Box 13, Transcript Box 23
      Location: 158: Ringsage, Jean Wilson. Interviewer: Sam Schrager
    • Description: (2) and Stiner Ringsage
      5.9 hr; 172p

      Struggle on Alberta farm in the twenties. Choice of life as a farm wife. Her religious awakening. Contrasts between Idaho and Alberta. Ukranians in Alberta. Birth control information. Portland in World War II.

      Dates: October 19, 1976
      Container: Tape Box 13, Transcript Box 23
      Location: 158: Ringsage, Jean Wilson. Interviewer: Sam Schrager
    • Description: (3) and Stiner Ringsage
      3.9 hr; no transcript

      Women's work and families. Her religious sect. Fights and hunting. Rural living.

      Dates: November 7, 1976
      Container: Tape Box 13, Transcript
      Location: 158: Ringsage, Jean Wilson. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

  • 159: Ringsage, Steiner

    Park, Alberta, Central Ridge 1890

    Helmer Ringsage's brother.

    Farmer, laborer.

  • 160: Rowan, Frank. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

    Troy 1885

    Family came from Minnesota (c. 1900).

    Road foreman, brickyard worker, logger.

    • Description: (1) and Lottie Rowan (wife)
      1.7 hr; 52p

      Neighbors' squabbles and peculiar behavior. Two murders by spouses. Wildman of Burnt Ridge. Moonshiners' troubles. Woods work during 1910 fire. T.P. Jones.

      Dates: January 14, 1975
      Container: Tape Box 14, Transcript Box 23
      Location: 160: Rowan, Frank. Interviewer: Sam Schrager
    • Description: (2) and Lottie Rowan
      2.4 hr; 57p

      Local characters. Lawlessness around Troy and Grangeville. Wild pets and animals. A visitation.

      Dates: February 3, 1975
      Container: Tape Box 14, Transcript Box 23
      Location: 160: Rowan, Frank. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

  • 161: Rowan, Lottie Johnson

    Troy 1898

    Came from Grangeville, Idaho area.

    Farm wife.

  • 162: Ruberg, Hilda Carlson. Interviewer: Karen Purtee

    Big Meadow, Burnt Ridge, Troy 1893

    Family came from North Dakota (1912).

    Farm wife, harvest cook, housekeeper.

    • Description: (1) and Helena Carlson (sister-in-law)
      2 hr; 64p

      Work as cook, housekeeper and farmer. Women's responsibilities at home. Childbirth and children's ignorance. Neighborhood entertainment.

      Dates: June 19, 1976
      Container: Tape Box 14, Transcript Box 21
      Location: 162: Ruberg, Hilda Carlson. Interviewer: Karen Purtee

  • 163: Ryan, Grace White

    Bovill 1907

    Homemaker, store clerk, logging camp flunkey.

  • 164: Sampson, Clarice Moody. Interviewer: (1,2) Laura Schrager and (3,4) Sam Schrager

    Moscow 1894

    Parents came from Utah (1892).

    Homemaker, teacher, clerk at David's Store.

  • 165: Sampson, Harry. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

    Moscow 1893

    Family came from Wisconsin in 1902.

    Manager of men's clothing department at David's Department Store for nearly forty years.

    • Description: (1)
      1.9 hr; 30p

      Learning the clothing trade. Working for David's. Credit and competition. Moscow business climate. Bringing scouting to town. Ragtime band. Growing up in Moscow.

      Dates: November 13, 1974
      Container: Tape Box 14, Transcript Box 23
      Location: 165: Sampson, Harry. Interviewer: Sam Schrager
    • Description: (2)
      2 hr; 36p

      Building character through scouting. Origin of Moscow golfing and country club. Innovations in men's department. Frank David's psychology of selling. Competition among service clubs. Chatauquas and circuses. Mother's student boarders.

      Dates: January 25, 1975
      Container: Tape Box 14, Transcript Box 23
      Location: 165: Sampson, Harry. Interviewer: Sam Schrager
    • Description: (3) and Clarice Sampson (wife)
      1.3 hr; 30p

      Frank B. Robinson and Psychianna: his relations in Moscow. Mrs. Robinson. End of Psychianna.

      Dates: August 16, 1976
      Container: Tape Box 14, Transcript Box 23
      Location: 165: Sampson, Harry. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

  • 166: Sandell, Hanna Anderson. Interviewer: Karen Purtee

    Johnson, Troy 1891

    Parents came from Sweden (c. 1870).

    Nurse at Gritman Hospital, homemaker.

    • Description: (1)
      1.8 hr; no transcript

      Nursing experiences. Growing up on farm; food preparation. Nursing training. Early Moscow and Troy. First cars.

      Dates: February 7, 1976
      Container: Tape Box 14, Transcript
      Location: 166: Sandell, Hanna Anderson. Interviewer: Karen Purtee

  • 167: Sanderson, Byers. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

    Bovill 1896

    Father came from the South and was Potlatch assistant superintendent; mother came from New York (1880's)

    Head mechanic for Potlatch Lumber Company, miner.

    • Description: (1) with John Sanderson (brother)
      3 hr; 61p

      Bovill endangered in 1914 fire. Narrow escape of fire crew. Lumberjack entertainments. Big Red's murder. Early logging camps and fluming. Moonshining and Pat Malone. Weyerhaeuser success.

      Dates: October 16, 1975
      Container: Tape Box 14, Transcript Box 23
      Location: 167: Sanderson, Byers. Interviewer: Sam Schrager
    • Description: (2)
      1.4 hr; 29p

      IWW, poor conditions and company tactics. Suffering of families in the depression. Bill Deary; Hugh Bovill.

      Dates: November 13, 1975
      Container: Tape Box 14, Transcript Box 23
      Location: 167: Sanderson, Byers. Interviewer: Sam Schrager
    • Description: (3)
      2.5 hr; 54p

      Hoodoo and swamp Creek mining. Company control of independent loggers. East European lumberjacks. Arson and murder in Bovill fire. Gambling and moonshine. Strong men.

      Dates: January 23, 1976
      Container: Tape Box 14-15, Transcript Box 23
      Location: 167: Sanderson, Byers. Interviewer: Sam Schrager
    • Description: (4)
      3 hr; 58p

      Experience as CCC camp superintendent. Mistreatment of men by foremen. Bovill at its prime. Failed mining claims. Company monopoly of cedar.

      Dates: August 25, 1976
      Container: Tape Box 15, Transcript Box 23
      Location: 167: Sanderson, Byers. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

  • 168: Sanderson, John. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

    Bovill 1884

    Byers Sanderson's brother.

    Maintenance man for Potlatch Lumber Company, photographer.

  • 169: Schmaltz, George. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

    Elk River 1893

    Arrived from Sweden in 1912.

    Millwright, lumberjack.

    • Description: (1)
      2 hr; 34p

      Tales of a liar, a single man and moonshine. Impact of mill removal. Elk River Japanese. Malker Anderson. Emigration from Sweden.

      Dates: May 17, 1976
      Container: Tape Box 15, Transcript Box 23
      Location: 169: Schmaltz, George. Interviewer: Sam Schrager
    • Description: (2)
      2.6 hr; 43p

      Shacking up for winter. Hunting in and out of season. Whiskey and sporting girls. Jericho Mine. Trapping mink. Work as CCC camp foreman. More characters.

      Dates: August 27, 1976
      Container: Tape Box 15, Transcript Box 23
      Location: 169: Schmaltz, George. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

  • 170: Schoeffler, Ada Oylear. Interviewer: Karen Purtee

    Potlatch Ridge, Cameron 1901

    Families came from Missouri and Iowa (1880's).

    Farm wife, harvest cook, housekeeper.

  • 171: Schupfer, Herman. Interviewer: Rob Moore

    Juliaetta, Kendrick 1892

    Parents emigrated from Austria; father homesteaded adjacent to Juliaetta townsite (1879).

    Operated local telephone company and theatre; district representative for Washington Water Power.

    • Description: (1)
      1.5 hr; 32p

      Beginnings of telephone service. Founding of Juliaetta. Produce and cannery. Work for electric company. Family pioneer experiences. Nez Perces. Jobs for boys.

      Dates: July 19, 1973
      Container: Tape Box 15, Transcript Box 23
      Location: 171: Schupfer, Herman. Interviewer: Rob Moore
    • Description: (2)
      1.5 hr; 33p

      Tramway operation. Train wrecks and floods in canyon. Subsistence farming. Town socializing. Cannery work.

      Dates: July 26, 1973
      Container: Tape Box 15, Transcript Box 23
      Location: 171: Schupfer, Herman. Interviewer: Rob Moore

  • 172: Schupfer, Otto. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

    Juliaetta, Kendrick 1891

    Herman Schupfer's brother.

    Operated local telephone company and theatre; helped manage electric service.

    • Description: (1)
      1.8 hr; 57p

      Early telephone service and tramways. Anti-German sentiment in wartime. Foster's hospital and Adam's wheat. Experience versus education. Juliaetta cannery. Porter enterprises.

      Dates: April 14, 1976
      Container: Tape Box 15, Transcript Box 23
      Location: 172: Schupfer, Otto. Interviewer: Sam Schrager
    • Description: (2)
      2 hr; 58p

      Early moviehouses, radios and cars. Right-of-way disputes. Juliaetta flour mill. Melon thieves. Trains in Potlatch canyon. Telephone and electric service.

      Dates: June 1, 1976
      Container: Tape Box 15, Transcript Box 23
      Location: 172: Schupfer, Otto. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

  • 173: Settle, Eugene. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

    Aspendale, Moscow 1894

    His was one of the few black families to settle in the area; parents grew up in Mississippi, came in 1899.

    Warehouse superintendent for Latah County Grain Growers; farmer.

    • Description: (1)
      1.8 hr; 40p

      Family background. Life at Fort Smith, Arkansas. Pioneering at Bluestem, Washington (1898). Father's struggle to establish a farm. Work and play as a boy. Joe Wells family. End of small farming.

      Dates: June 3, 1975
      Container: Tape Box 15, Transcript Box 24
      Location: 173: Settle, Eugene. Interviewer: Sam Schrager
    • Description: (2)
      2 hr; 38p

      Experience in a segregated unit in Europe during World War I. Acceptance in high school. Brother's career in Virginia; father-in-law's pioneering. Family hay baling operation.

      Dates: July 7, 1975
      Container: Tape Box 15, Transcript Box 24
      Location: 173: Settle, Eugene. Interviewer: Sam Schrager
    • Description: (3)
      2.2 hr; 36p

      Independence of family as farmers. Dealing with job discrimination. Supervising men as warehouse superintendent. Meeting wife's family. Flu epidemic. Father's hunting.

      Dates: August 4, 1975
      Container: Tape Box 15, Transcript Box 24
      Location: 173: Settle, Eugene. Interviewer: Sam Schrager
    • Description: (4)
      1.2 hr; 28p

      Parents' teachings. One-room country school. Store purchases. Country people in Moscow.

      Dates: December 19, 1975
      Container: Tape Box 15, Transcript Box 24
      Location: 173: Settle, Eugene. Interviewer: Sam Schrager
    • Description: (5)
      2.1 hr; 42 p

      Minimal effect of prejudice on family. Socializing in the neighborhood. Farming in hard times. Work as superintendent. Entertainment as a young man. More about Wells family.

      Dates: January 13, 1976
      Container: Tape Box 15, Transcript Box 24
      Location: 173: Settle, Eugene. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

  • 174: Sherman, Theodore. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

    Moscow 1901

    Came to Moscow to attend college; father was mayor of Boise.

    English professor at University of Idaho (1931-66)

    • Description: (1)
      2 hr; 46p

      University of Idaho in 1920: domination of fraternities; events, traditions and characters. Youth in Boise.

      Dates: March 24, 1976
      Container: Tape Box 16, Transcript Box 24
      Location: 174: Sherman, Theodore. Interviewer: Sam Schrager
    • Description: (2)
      1 hr; 22p

      George Morey Miller, English professor. Light of the Mountains, Idaho history pageant. English department. Original musicals.

      Dates: June 17, 1976
      Container: Tape Box 16, Transcript Box 24
      Location: 174: Sherman, Theodore. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

  • 175: Shirrod, Emma Christenson. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

    Rimrock, Genesee 1885

    Parents were Norwegian homesteaders in the 1870's.

    Farm wife, store clerk.

  • 176: Showalter, Ulysses. Interviewer: Rob Moore

    Moscow Mountain 1886

    Family came from Virginia (c. 1890).

    Woodcutter, farmer, moonshiner.

    • Description: (1)
      1 hr; 25p

      Moonshining experiences. Impact of prohibition. Cutting cordwood. Fighting. Poker.

      Dates: February 4, 1974
      Container: Tape Box 16, Transcript Box 24
      Location: 176: Showalter, Ulysses. Interviewer: Rob Moore
    • Description: (2)
      2 hr; 47p

      Making moonshine. Stool pigeons and bribes. Arrest. Houses of ill-repute. Crooked gambling. Saloons.

      Dates: February 20, 1974
      Container: Tape Box 16, Transcript Box 24
      Location: 176: Showalter, Ulysses. Interviewer: Rob Moore

  • 177: Smith, Nellie Wood. Interviewer: (1) Rob Moore and (2-6) Sam Schrager

    Bovill, McGary Butte 1892

    Came from Missouri with parents, settling in the area c. 1900.

    Homemaker.

  • 178: Spencer, Jesse. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

    Troy 1885

    Parents were homesteaders from Kentucky (1884).

    Farmer.

    • Description: (1) and Mabel Spencer (wife)
      2.7 hr; 58p

      Art of horse handling. Homesteading in the Grand Coulee country (1907-19). Caring for her family as a girl. Home remedies. Self-sufficiency. Early events around Troy.

      Dates: January 29, 1975
      Container: Tape Box 16, Transcript Box 24
      Location: 178: Spencer, Jesse. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

  • 179: Spencer, Mabel Stephenson

    Troy, Moscow Mountain 1892

    Family came from Iowa and homesteaded (1898).

    Farm wife, harvest cook.

  • 180: Stefanos, Mike. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

    Potlatch, Lewiston 1895

    Emigrated from Dimalis, Greece (1912).

    Sawmiller, operator of shoeshine parlor.

    • Description: (1)
      2 hr; 36p

      Millwork and opportunities. Greek community in Potlatch. Life in Greece. Coming to Potlatch. Sending money to Greece. Purchasing shoeshine business in the depression.

      Dates: September 1, 1976
      Container: Tape Box 16, Transcript Box 24
      Location: 180: Stefanos, Mike. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

  • 181: Steffen, Kenneth. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

    Moscow 1902

    Father first came in the 1880's; parents moved from Kansas in 1900.

    Ran delivery service, laborer.

    • Description: (1)
      2 hr; 56p

      Family view of Will Steffen's killing (1901). Life as an apple harvester and dishwasher in eastern Washington. Family farm. Moscow moonshine and other amusements. In the Marines in China.

      Dates: January 23, 1975
      Container: Tape Box 16, Transcript Box 24
      Location: 181: Steffen, Kenneth. Interviewer: Sam Schrager
    • Description: (2)
      1.3 hr; no transcript

      Varied work experiences. Moscow livery stables, freighting and pool halls. Parents.

      Dates: January 13, 1976
      Container: Tape Box 16, Transcript
      Location: 181: Steffen, Kenneth. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

  • 182: Stowell, William (Michigan Bill). Interviewer: Sam Schrager

    Clearwater River, Bovill area 1903

    Came in the mid-twenties; father had a farm and sawmill in Quebec.

    Lumberjack.

    • Description: (1)
      2 hr; 43p

      Clearwater River log drives: wanigans, pilots, drownings. Tramp lumberjacks; wide open towns. IWW's and direct action. Foremen and gyppo logging.

      Dates: October 29, 1975
      Container: Tape Box 16, Transcript Box 24
      Location: 182: Stowell, William (Michigan Bill). Interviewer: Sam Schrager
    • Description: (2)
      1.5 hr; 42p

      IWW Strike of 1936: murder of pickets; arrest and blackballing. Strikes on the job. Lumberjack sociability. Picking timber on river drives; fluming.

      Dates: February 24, 1976
      Container: Tape Box 16, Transcript Box 24
      Location: 182: Stowell, William (Michigan Bill). Interviewer: Sam Schrager
    • Description: (3)
      2.8 hr; 56p

      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.

      Dates: September 28, 1976
      Container: Tape Box 17, Transcript Box 24
      Location: 182: Stowell, William (Michigan Bill). Interviewer: Sam Schrager

  • 183: Sundberg, Arthur. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

    Potlatch 1899

    Came with parents from Wisconsin in 1909.

    Maintenance foreman and lead man in Potlatch mill for forty years.

    • Description: (1)
      2 hr; 37p

      Potlatch as a company town: housing, store, script. Rowdy Midwest logging towns. Bad lumbercamp conditions. Company role in area development. Immigrant labor.

      Dates: July 11, 1975
      Container: Tape Box 17, Transcript Box 24
      Location: 183: Sundberg, Arthur. Interviewer: Sam Schrager
    • Description: (2)
      2.5 hr; 49p

      Early working conditions in Potlatch mill. Attitudes towards foreign workers. Mill joking and sign language. Operation of mill equipment.

      Dates: July 18, 1975
      Container: Tape Box 17, Transcript Box 24
      Location: 183: Sundberg, Arthur. Interviewer: Sam Schrager
    • Description: (3)
      3 hr; 57p

      Laird and Deary as general managers. Weyerhaeuser and rags-to-riches theory; ambitions of young. Potlatch baseball. Mill products and car loading. Town whistles.

      Dates: July 25, 1975
      Container: Tape Box 17, Transcript Box 24
      Location: 183: Sundberg, Arthur. Interviewer: Sam Schrager
    • Description: (4)
      2.5 hr; 45p

      Unionizing: IWW versus company; millworker gullibility; his involvement. Worker aspirations. Foremen-crew relationships. Gyppoing. His work.

      Dates: August 1, 1975
      Container: Tape Box 17, Transcript Box 24
      Location: 183: Sundberg, Arthur. Interviewer: Sam Schrager
    • Description: (5)
      3 hr; 54p

      Mill safety problems. Company management of town. Cooperation in the depression. Worker stagnation; character of Nob Hill. Power transmission in mill.

      Dates: August 7, 1975
      Container: Tape Box 17, Transcript Box 24
      Location: 183: Sundberg, Arthur. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

  • 184: Sundell, Theodore. Interviewer: Rob Moore

    Troy 1895

    Parents emigrated from Sweden to Minnesota then to Latah County in 1900.

    Warehouseman, carpenter, brick plant worker.

    • Description: (1) and Ida Asplund (friend)
      1.5 hr; 43p

      A mean marshall and a mean teacher. July Fourth and other community pleasures. Harvest work. Desire to come to America. Clearing land. Drinking in prohibition.

      Dates: March 3, 1974
      Container: Tape Box 17, Transcript Box 24
      Location: 184: Sundell, Theodore. Interviewer: Rob Moore

  • 185: Sweeney, Nellie Edwin. Interviewer: Laura Schrager

    Moscow 1883

    Grandfather, Peter Carlson, was the first Swedish Lutheran minister in the area (1870's).

    Teacher, pea processor, homemaker.

  • 186: Swenson, Edward. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

    Park, Alberta 1883

    Family emigrated from Norway and homesteaded (1891).

    Farmer, carpenter.

    • Description: (1)
      1 hr; 19p

      First years of homesteading at Park: locating, building, surviving. Community construction of road to Troy. Appearance of valley.

      Dates: July 1, 1974
      Container: Tape Box 17, Transcript Box 24
      Location: 186: Swenson, Edward. Interviewer: Sam Schrager
    • Description: (2)
      2 hr; 36p

      Park back country: wild game, camping, Nez Perces. Building church; celebrating Christmas. Homestead work. Saloons. Lack of opportunity at Park.

      Dates: July 2, 1974
      Container: Tape Box 17, Transcript Box 24
      Location: 186: Swenson, Edward. Interviewer: Sam Schrager
    • Description: (3)
      .5 hr; 7p

      Nilson, a foolish miner. Mail service to Park.

      Dates: July 5, 1974
      Container: Tape Box 17, Transcript Box 24
      Location: 186: Swenson, Edward. Interviewer: Sam Schrager
    • Description: (4)
      2.5 hr; 50p

      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.

      Dates: August 10, 1976
      Container: Tape Box 17, Transcript Box 24
      Location: 186: Swenson, Edward. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

  • 187: Thomason, Anna Bengston. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

    Dry Ridge, Troy 1899

    Came from Torsby, Sweden in 1928.

    Farm wife.

    • Description: (1) and Oscar Thomason (husband)
      2.9 hr; 65p

      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.

      Dates: February 3, 1976
      Container: Tape Box 17, Transcript Box 24
      Location: 187: Thomason, Anna Bengston. Interviewer: Sam Schrager
    • Description: (2) and Oscar Thomason
      2.5 hr; 56p

      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.

      Dates: March 19, 1976
      Container: Tape Box 17, Transcript Box 24
      Location: 187: Thomason, Anna Bengston. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

  • 188: Thomason, Oscar

    Dry Ridge, Troy 1901

    Came from Northern Sweden in 1927.

    Logger.

  • 189: Thurtle, Alice Hall. Interviewer: Rob Moore

    Avon 1889

    Family came from Iowa in 1888.

    Farm wife.

  • 190: Torgerson, George. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

    Park, Elk River 1892

    Father was a Norwegian homesteader (c. 1890).

    Ran drayline, did road maintenance, farmed.

    • Description: (1)
      2 hr; no transcript

      Homesteaders around Elk River. Prosperity of Elk River; devastating impact of mill removal. Settlement at Park. Moving from Elk River.

      Dates: May 17, 1976
      Container: Tape Box 17, Transcript
      Location: 190: Torgerson, George. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

  • 191: Tribble, Hershiel A. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

    Hatter Creek, Princeton 1896

    Parents settled in 1880's; mother was from Willamette Valley, Oregon.

    Woods clerk and scaler.

    • Description: (1)
      1 hr; no transcript

      Local persistence in 1893 depression. Unspoiled pioneer country. Art of scaling and clerking. Murder of Chinese miners. Mother's jobs.

      Dates: July 16, 1973
      Container: Tape Box 17, Transcript
      Location: 191: Tribble, Hershiel A. Interviewer: Sam Schrager
    • Description: (2)
      1.5 hr; 50p

      Foreign workers and conditions in Potlatch logging camps. Unreasonable IWW demands in 1917 strike; his role as Four-L representative. Tricks of log scaling. Medicine show come-ons. Courtship and marriage.

      Dates: July 23, 1973
      Container: Tape Box 18, Transcript Box 24
      Location: 191: Tribble, Hershiel A. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

  • 192: Tribble, Lolah Benge. Interviewer: Laura Schrager

    Hatter Creek, Princeton 1902

    Dick Benge's sister; Hershiel Tribble's wife.

    Farm wife.

  • 193: Utt, Anna Gleason. Interviewer: (1) Laura Schrager and (2) Sam Schrager

    Harvard, Hatter Creek 1906

    Parents moved from Spangle, Washington (1911).

    Teacher, farm wife.

  • 194: Utt, Emmett. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

    Hatter Creek, Princeton, Potlatch 1903

    Parents moved from Kansas (c. 1894).

    Sawyer in Potlatch mill, farmer.

    • Description: (1)
      1.5 hr; 39p

      Retaliations against Potlatch Lumber Company arrogance. Winter logging. Gold Hill gold; father's mining and bad mining stock.

      Dates: May 7, 1973
      Container: Tape Box 18, Transcript Box 24
      Location: 194: Utt, Emmett. Interviewer: Sam Schrager
    • Description: (2)
      1.6 hr; 43p

      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.

      Dates: August 10, 1973
      Container: Tape Box 18, Transcript Box 24
      Location: 194: Utt, Emmett. Interviewer: Sam Schrager
    • Description: (3) with Anna Utt (wife)
      1.9 hr; 50p

      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.

      Dates: October 19, 1973
      Container: Tape Box 18, Transcript Box 24
      Location: 194: Utt, Emmett. Interviewer: Sam Schrager
    • Description: (4) and Anna Utt
      2.3 hr; 58p

      Her work as a "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.

      Dates: November 14, 1975
      Container: Tape Box 18, Transcript Box 24
      Location: 194: Utt, Emmett. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

  • 195: Vine, Rannie (Ma) Johnson. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

    Elk River 1882

    Raised in Wisconsin; came via eastern Montana (c. 1918).

    Homemaker, kept boarders, worked in hotel.

    • Description: (1)
      2.3 hr; 50p

      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.

      Dates: July 8, 1976
      Container: Tape Box 18, Transcript Box 24
      Location: 195: Vine, Rannie (Ma) Johnson. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

  • 196: Wahl, Elizabeth Gamble

    Paradise Ridge, Genesee 1905

    Lola Gamble Clyde's sister; Tom Wahl's wife.

    Teacher, farm wife.

  • 197: Wahl, Tom. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

    Grey Eagle District, Genesee 1911

    Father's family came from California (1879), mother from the Willamette Valley, Oregon (1890).

    Farmer, research engineer at Washington State University.

    • Description: (1) see Clyde, Lola (4)
      Container: Tape , Transcript
      Location: 197: Wahl, Tom. Interviewer: Sam Schrager
    • Description: (2)
      2 hr; 46p

      Relations between hired help and farm families. Butchering bees. Winter work and isolation.

      Dates: March 10, 1976
      Container: Tape Box 18, Transcript Box 24
      Location: 197: Wahl, Tom. Interviewer: Sam Schrager
    • Description: (3) and Elizabeth Wahl (wife)
      2.5 hr; 58p

      Teaching and rural communities. Relations with Nez Perces and blacks. Family farming life. Early homesteading; J.P. Vollmer.

      Dates: April 4, 1977
      Container: Tape Box 18, Transcript Box 24
      Location: 197: Wahl, Tom. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

  • 198: Waldron, Kate Sanderson. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

    Bovill, Moscow 1890

    Byers Sanderson's sister.

    Head clerk in department store, logging camp flunkey, homemaker.

    • Description: (1)
      1.2 hr; 27p

      Flight and loss in the 1914 fire. Work as an early woman flunkey. Christian rebirth. Sunday school teaching.

      Dates: July 8, 1976
      Container: Tape Box 18, Transcript Box 24
      Location: 198: Waldron, Kate Sanderson. Interviewer: Sam Schrager
    • Description: (2)
      2 hr; 50p

      Family closeness. Clerking a failing business. Meeting husband. Divine healing. Bible study; Ladies' Aid. Opposition to swearing.

      Dates: August 25, 1976
      Container: Tape Box 18, Transcript Box 24
      Location: 198: Waldron, Kate Sanderson. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

  • 199: Waterman, Merton. Interviewer: Grace Wicks

    Moscow 1896

    Parents came from Illinois via Texas (1910).

    Mail carrier, laborer, farmer.

  • 200: Wells, Elmer. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

    Moscow 1878

    Moved from North Carolina in 1902.

    Laborer.

    • Description: (1)
      1 hr; no transcript

      Troubleshooting for a Moscow bank during depression. Chicanery of Harding presidency; fall of Woodrow Wilson. Republican domination of Idaho.

      Dates: August 24, 1973
      Container: Tape Box 18, Transcript Box 24
      Location: 200: Wells, Elmer. Interviewer: Sam Schrager
    • Description: (2)
      .8 hr; no transcript

      Joe Wells in North Carolina. Decision to leave North Carolina. Men who became wealthy.

      Dates: November 15, 1974
      Container: Tape Box 18, Transcript Box 24
      Location: 200: Wells, Elmer. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

  • 201: Wheeler, Ruby Canfield. Interviewer: Laura Schrager

    Harvard 1893

    Parents came from Massachusetts and New Jersey (1877).

    Homemaker.

  • 202: Whitman, Bess Beardsley. Interviewer: Rob Moore

    Moscow 1891

    Della Johnson's sister.

    Homemaker, store clerk.

    • Description: (1)
      .5 hr; no transcript

      Mother's skill and determination. Family's horse drive from California; loss of horses. Development of Penney's Store chain.

      Dates: March 1, 1974
      Container: Tape Box 18, Transcript Box 24
      Location: 202: Whitman, Bess Beardsley. Interviewer: Rob Moore

  • 203: Wicks, Grace Jain. Interviewer: (1) Rob Moore and (2-5) Sam Schrager

    Genesee, Coyote Grade 1906

    Father's family came from Wisconsin (1878), mother's from Michigan (1892).

    County commissioner and civic leader; homemaker.

  • 204: Wilkins, Kenneth. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

    Avon 1902

    Grandfather was first homesteader in Avon area (1884), coming from Indiana.

    Farmer.

  • 205: Wurman, Mamie Sisk. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

    Princeton, Palouse 1887

    Parents came from Missouri and homesteaded near Princeton (1886).

    Farm wife.

    • Description: (1) and Mary Lynd (friend), Mamie Munden (niece); with Glen Gilder (friend)
      2.4 hr; 73p

      Keeping and raising children; closeness of family unit. Community get-togethers. Home doctoring. Difficult farming experiences. Lack of conveniences. Girls' work.

      Dates: June 24, 1975
      Container: Tape Box 19, Transcript Box 24
      Location: 205: Wurman, Mamie Sisk. Interviewer: Sam Schrager

  • Addendum

    Interviews not included in Sam Schrager's guide:

    • Description: Borah, Mary McConnell
      Dates: undated
      Container: Tape Box 19, Transcript
      Location: Addendum
    • Description: Clyde, Lola Gamble
      Dates: December 6, 1975
      Container: Tape Box 19, Transcript
      Location: Addendum
    • Description: Clyde, Lola Gamble
      Dates: November 10, 1982
      Container: Tape Box 5, Transcript
      Location: Addendum
    • Description: Cushman, John Huston
      Dates: October 27, 1977
      Container: Tape Box 5, Transcript
      Location: Addendum
    • Description: Gilder, Glen with Agnes Clark Gilder. Interviewer: Sam Schrager
      Dates: June 28, 1978
      Container: Tape Box 7, Transcript Box 21
      Location: Addendum
    • Description: Gilder, Glen with Agnes Clark Gilder. Interviewer: Sam Schrager
      Dates: August, 1978
      Container: Tape Box 7, Transcript Box 21
      Location: Addendum
    • Description: Gleave, James. Interviewer: Sam Schrager
      Dates: July 6, 1978
      Container: Tape Box 7, Transcript
      Location: Addendum
    • Description: Grove, Clara Payne
      Dates: January 17, 1973
      Container: Tape Box 19, Transcript
      Location: Addendum
    • Description: Hosack, Robert and Nancy Hosack (wife). Interviewer: Joann Jones
      Dates: December 5, 1984
      Container: Tape Box 19, Transcript Box 19
      Location: Addendum
    • Description: Johanson, Nellie Olson
      Dates: June 22, 1978
      Container: Tape Box 9, Transcript
      Location: Addendum
    • Description: Machlied, Pauline (Pearl) with Florence Melder Lange. Interviewer: Rachel Foxman
      Dates: May 1, 1978
      Container: Tape Box 10, Transcript Box 21
      Location: Addendum
    • Description: Morris, Jennie Robinson
      Dates: June 16, 1978
      Container: Tape Box 11, Transcript
      Location: Addendum
    • Description: Nelson, Elsie M. Interviewer: Denise May
      Dates: October 28, 1977
      Container: Tape Box 19, Transcript
      Location: Addendum
    • Description: Nelson, Leon. Interviewer: Joann Jones
      Dates: September 11, 1985
      Container: Tape Box 19, Transcript Box 19
      Location: Addendum
    • Description: Rossebo, Stella. Interviewer: Joann Jones
      Dates: July 30, 1986
      Container: Tape Box 19, Transcript Box 19
      Location: Addendum
    • Description: Schimke, Margaret with Weldon Schimke. Interviewer: Rachel Foxman
      Dates: April 11, 1978
      Container: Tape Box 15, Transcript Box 21
      Location: Addendum
    • Description: Settle, Eugene
      Dates: August 9, 1978
      Container: Tape Box 15-16, Transcript Box 21
      Location: Addendum
    • Description: Ware, Marcus
      Dates: April 6, 1971
      Container: Tape Box 19, Transcript
      Location: Addendum

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2015

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