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		<titlestmt> 
		  <titleproper encodinganalog="title">Guide to the Sheridan County Oral
			 History Project 
			 <date era="ce" calendar="gregorian" normal="2010/2011" encodinganalog="date">2010-2011</date></titleproper> 
		  <titleproper type="filing" altrender="nodisplay">Sheridan County Oral
			 History Project</titleproper> 
		  <author encodinganalog="creator">Finding aid prepared by Anneliese
			 Warhank</author> 
		</titlestmt> 
		<publicationstmt> 
		  <publisher encodinganalog="publisher"> Montana Historical Society
			 Research Center</publisher> 
		  <date era="ce" calendar="gregorian" normal="2016" encodinganalog="date">2016</date> 
		  <address> 
			 <addressline> Helena, MT </addressline> 
		  </address> 
		</publicationstmt> 
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	 <profiledesc> 
		<creation> Finding aid encoded by Anneliese Warhank 
		  <date era="ce" calendar="gregorian" normal="2014">2014</date></creation> 
		<langusage>Finding aid written in<language encodinganalog="language" langcode="eng" scriptcode="latn"> English</language></langusage>
		<descrules>Finding aid based on 
		<title render="italic">Describing Archives: A Content Standard (2nd
		  edition)</title></descrules> 
	 </profiledesc> 
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  <archdesc level="collection" type="guide" relatedencoding="marc21" encodinganalog="341$c"> 
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		<repository> 
		  <corpname encodinganalog="852$a">Montana Historical Society Research
			 Center</corpname><subarea encodinganalog="852$b">Archives</subarea> 
		  <address> 
			 <addressline>225 N. Roberts</addressline> 
			 <addressline>PO Box 201201</addressline> 
			 <addressline>Helena MT 59620-1201</addressline> 
			 <addressline>(406) 444-2681</addressline> 
			 <addressline>mhslibrary@mt.gov</addressline> 
		  </address></repository> 
		<unitid encodinganalog="099" countrycode="us" repositorycode="mtl"> OH
		  2308</unitid> 
		<origination> 
		  <persname encodinganalog="100" source="lcnaf" rules="RDA" role="interviewer">Knopp, Larry; </persname> 
		  <persname encodinganalog="700" source="lcnaf" rules="RDA" role="interviewer">Zahavi, Gerald</persname></origination> 
		<unittitle encodinganalog="245$a">Sheridan County Oral History
		  Project</unittitle> 
		<unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian" normal="2010/2011" encodinganalog="245$f">2010-2011</unitdate> 
		<physdesc> 
		  <genreform>Sound Recording</genreform></physdesc>
		<physdesc><extent encodinganalog="300$a"> 1 online resource (16 audio
		  files, 19 hours 57 min.), digital, MP3 files</extent>
		</physdesc>
		<physdesc><extent encodinganalog="300$a"> 17 interviews of 19 people;
		  number of pages in transcripts provided in container list</extent>
		</physdesc>
		<abstract encodinganalog="5203_">Sheridan County Oral History Project
		  consists of 16 audio recordings and 19 transcripts of interviews conducted with
		  19 former and current residents of Sheridan County in Northeastern Montana
		  conducted primarily in June of 2010. Includes oral history interviews
		  with former and current residents of Sheridan County in northeastern Montana.
		  The interviewees discuss the impact differing political stances, particularly
		  the rise of the Farmer Labor Movement and Communism, had on the community
		  during the 1920s and Great Depression era, how it impacted the relationship
		  between Communist and non-Communist in the area at the time, the political
		  beliefs of their parents during and after the movement, and how that impacted
		  the political beliefs of the interviewees over the years. Interviews conducted
		  by Professor Larry Knopp, University of Washington, Tacoma, Tacoma, Washington,
		  and Professor Gerald Zahavi, University at Albany, SUNY, Albany, New
		  York.</abstract> <langmaterial><language langcode="eng" encodinganalog="546">English</language></langmaterial>
</did> 
	 <bioghist id="a2" encodinganalog="5451_"> 
		<head>Biographical Information</head> 
		<p>Dave Anderson, Gerda Christensen, Vernon Christensen, James A. Hansen,
		  Ardelle Hart, Margaret Hoven, Norman Jensen, Verlaine Stoner McDonald, Orville
		  Nash, Joe Nistler, Debra Orozco, Ricardo Orozco, Roald Selvig, Ed Smith,
		  Emmanual States, Shorty Timmerman, Jo Anne Troxel, Bill Wagner, and Chester
		  Wirtz were all either born and raised, or spent parts of their lives, in
		  Sheridan County. A large number of interviewees were born prior to, or during
		  the rise of the Communist and Farm Labor Movement in the county and can recall
		  some memories of the movement from their child and adolescent years.</p> 
		<p>Dr. Larry Knopp is a professor and Director of Interdisciplinary Arts
		  and Sciences at the University of Washington Tacoma. Dr. Gerald Zahavi is a
		  professor and Director of the Documentary Studies Program at the University of
		  Albany.</p>
</bioghist> 
	 <scopecontent id="a3" encodinganalog="5202_"> 
		<head> Scope and Content </head> 
		<p>17 interviews of 19 people; Number of pages in transcripts provided in
		  container list of finding aid. Sheridan County Oral History Project consists of
		  16 audio recordings and 19 transcripts of interviews conducted with 19 former
		  and current residents of Sheridan County in Northeastern Montana conducted
		  primarily in June of 2010. Please note that three of the interviews only
		  contain transcripts please see detailed summary of collection in the Finding
		  Aid for more information on each interview. Includes oral history interviews
		  with former and current residents of Sheridan County in northeastern
		  Montana.</p>
</scopecontent>
<odd id="a5"> 
		<p>Researchers requesting copies of interviews should refer to the OH
		  number and name of interviewee when ordering.</p> 
	 </odd> 
	 <arrangement id="a4" encodinganalog="351"> 
		<p>Inventory is arranged by item, with each oral history interview listed
		  by the name of the interviewee. An abstract for each interview is provided in
		  the inventory to allow keyword searchability. The abstract includes the number
		  of cassettes, CDs or transcript pages for the interview, as appropriate.
		  Researchers requesting copies of interviews should refer to the OH number and
		  sub-number (OH 2308_xx) and the name of the interviewee when ordering.</p>
</arrangement> 
	 <accessrestrict id="a14" encodinganalog="506"> 
		<p>Collection is open for research.</p> 
	 </accessrestrict> 
	 <userestrict id="a15" encodinganalog="540"> 
		<p>The Montana Historical Society is the owner of the materials in the
		  Research Library and makes available reproductions for research, publication,
		  and other uses. Written permission must be obtained from the Research Library
		  before any reproduction use. The Society does not necessarily hold copyright to
		  all of the materials in the collections. In some cases, permission for use may
		  require seeking additional authorization from the copyright owners.</p> 
	 </userestrict> 
	 <prefercite id="a18" encodinganalog="524"> 
		<p>[OH number][Interview title] Montana Historical Society Research
		  Center. Archives. Helena, Montana.</p> 
	 </prefercite> 
	 <acqinfo id="a19" encodinganalog="541"> 
		<p>Interviews were conducted by Dr. Zahavi and Dr. Knopp and were donated
		  to the Historical Society by Dr. Knopp following the conclusion of their
		  respective projects.</p> 
	 </acqinfo> 
	 <controlaccess id="a12"> 
		<p> This collection is indexed under the following headings in the
		  Montana Historical Society Research Center catalog. Researchers desiring
		  materials about related topics, persons, or places should search under these
		  terms. </p> 
		<controlaccess> 
		  <persname encodinganalog="600" source="lcsh" rules="RDA" role="interviewer">Knopp, Larry;</persname> 
		  <subject encodinganalog="650" source="lcsh" rules="RDA">Labor unions
			 and communism--Montana</subject> 
		  <corpname encodinganalog="610" source="lcsh" rules="RDA">Farmer-Labor
			 Party</corpname> 
		  <subject encodinganalog="650" source="lcsh" rules="RDA">Communism--Montana--Sheridan County--History--20th
			 century</subject> 
		  <subject encodinganalog="650" source="lcsh" rules="RDA">Radicalism--Montana--Sheridan County--History--20th
			 century</subject> 
		  <subject encodinganalog="650" source="lcsh" rules="RDA">Social
			 conflict--Montana--Sheridan County--History--20th century</subject> 
		  <subject altrender="nodisplay" source="archiveswest" encodinganalog="690">Oral Histories</subject> 
		</controlaccess> 
		<controlaccess> 
		  <geogname encodinganalog="651" source="lcsh" rules="aacr2">Montana</geogname> 
		  <geogname encodinganalog="651" source="lcsh" rules="aacr2">Sheridan
			 County (Mont.)--Politics and government--20th century</geogname> 
		</controlaccess> 
		<controlaccess> 
		  <genreform encodinganalog="655" source="lcsh">Oral history</genreform> 
		  <genreform encodinganalog="655" source="lcsh">Sound
			 recordings</genreform> 
		</controlaccess> 
		<controlaccess> 
		  <subject encodinganalog="690" source="archiveswest" altrender="nodisplay">Montana</subject> 
		  <subject encodinganalog="690" source="archiveswest" altrender="nodisplay">Oral Histories</subject> 
		  <subject encodinganalog="690" source="archiveswest" altrender="nodisplay">Sound Recordings</subject> 
		  <subject encodinganalog="690" source="archiveswest" altrender="nodisplay">Home and Family</subject> 
		</controlaccess> 
		<controlaccess> 
		  <persname encodinganalog="700" source="lcnaf" rules="RDA" role="interviewer">Zahavi, Gerald.</persname> 
		</controlaccess> 
	 </controlaccess> 
	 <dsc type="combined"> 
		<c01 level="item"> 
		  <did> 
			 <unitid>OH 2308_1 &amp; OH 2308_2</unitid> 
			 <unittitle>MARGARET HOVEN AND DAVE ANDERSON INTERVIEW</unittitle> 
			 <physdesc><extent encodinganalog="300$a">87 minutes, 2 Transcript 17
				pages total </extent>
			 </physdesc>
		  </did> 
		  <scopecontent encodinganalog="5202"> 
			 <p>In this interview Margaret Hoven discusses growing up in Sheridan
				County in the 1950s and 60s. Topics include attending school in Antelope,
				Montana; conflicts her grandfather had with the Communists during the Great
				Depression, her parent's political beliefs growing up; her perception of the
				region in terms of politics after spending 34 years away from home. She also
				signs Norwegian songs and Farmer Unions Songs. On disc 2 Dave Anderson, who is
				married to Hoven, discusses his perception of the community as an outsider.
				Topics include the viewpoints held by the pastor and congregation at the
				Nathaniel Lutheran Church in Dagmar, Montana and how the political beliefs of
				other religious congregations in the area compare.</p> 
		  </scopecontent> 
		</c01> 
		<c01 level="series"> 
		  <did> 
			 <unitid>OH 2308_3</unitid> 
			 <unittitle>GERDA CHRISTENSEN INTERVIEW</unittitle> 
			 <physdesc><extent encodinganalog="300$a">73 minutes, Transcript 16
				pages</extent>
			 </physdesc>
		  </did> 
		  <scopecontent encodinganalog="520"> 
			 <p>In this interview Gerda Christensen discusses growing up in Westby
				outside Dagmar, Montana in the 1920s and 1930s, including school; church; the
				Great Depression years; WPA work; and working on a farm. What restrictions
				existed growing up in a predominately communist community; IWWs; her parents
				who emigrated out of Denmark; co-ops in Dagmar; the Producers News; her
				personal political beliefs as well as her husband's and her daughter's; and the
				Farmer's Union Camp and Pioneer Camp. </p> 
		  </scopecontent> 
		</c01> 
		<c01 level="item"> 
		  <did> 
			 <unitid>OH 2308_4</unitid> 
			 <unittitle>VERNON CHRISTENSEN INTERVIEW</unittitle> 
			 <physdesc><extent>66 minutes, Transcript 13 pages</extent>
			 </physdesc>
		  </did> 
		  <scopecontent encodinganalog="5202"> 
			 <p>In this interview Vernon Christensen discusses growing up in
				Sheridan County beginning in the 1920s. Topics include growing up on the farm
				on Cottonwood Creek 10 miles out of Dagmar; the Communist camp on Brush Lake
				put on by the Farmer Labor Party; what her remembers about communists in
				Dagmar, Montana; farming equipment auction sales; Janis Salisbury's funeral;
				where his political beliefs came from; his parents' political and religious
				beliefs and how that impacted how they felt about communism; the Danish
				language at home and at church; his World War II experience. </p> 
		  </scopecontent> 
		</c01> 
		<c01 level="item"> 
		  <did> 
			 <unitid>OH 2308_5</unitid> 
			 <unittitle encodinganalog="245$a">JAMES A. HANSEN INTERVIEW
				</unittitle> 
			 <physdesc><extent encodinganalog="300$a">152 minutes, Transcript 34
				pages</extent>
			 </physdesc>
		  </did> 
		  <scopecontent encodinganalog="5202"> 
			 <p>In this interview James A. Hansen discusses growing up in
				Plentywood, Montana in the late 1920s and 1930s. Topics include his father's
				flour mill and farming around the Dagmar area; his parents' ethnic and
				political backgrounds; working at his father's mill in Wolf Point, MT; studying
				music at the University of Montana and UM Western and going on to teach music
				in Montana and Oregon; the foreclosure of the family farm; the Holiday
				Association; the Farm Labor Temple and Brush Lake. He also discusses his
				mother, Marie Hansen, and her relationship with Rodney Salisbury, his
				relationship with his half siblings, attending Janis Salisbury's funeral.</p> 
		  </scopecontent> 
		</c01> 
		<c01 level="item"> 
		  <did> 
			 <unitid>OH 2308_6</unitid> 
			 <unittitle encodinganalog="245$a">NORMAN JENSEN INTERVIEW
				</unittitle> 
			 <physdesc> <extent>64 minutes, Transcript 15 pages</extent>
			 </physdesc>
		  </did> 
		  <scopecontent encodinganalog="5202"> 
			 <p>In this interview Norman Jensen discusses growing up in the
				Dagmar, Montana area during the 1930s. He discusses how the town of Dagmar got
				started, its Danish roots, co-ops, the St. Nathaniel Lutheran Church, the Happy
				Danes, and the Danish Brotherhood in Dagmar and Danish customs; what he
				remembers about communism (The Reds) in Dagmar; what was preached at church
				(briefly); how his family came to the area, their homesteads, his own wife and
				children; the Grit Newspaper; prohibition in the area; the political beliefs in
				the Dagmar area following the fall of the communist movement up to current
				times. </p> 
		  </scopecontent> 
		</c01> 
		<c01 level="item"> 
		  <did> 
			 <unitid>OH 2308_7</unitid> 
			 <unittitle encodinganalog="245$a">VERLAINE STONER MCDONALD
				INTERVIEW</unittitle> 
			 <physdesc> <extent>191 minutes, Transcript 27 pages</extent>
			 </physdesc>
		  </did> 
		  <scopecontent encodinganalog="5202"> 
			 <p>In this interview Verlaine Stoner McDonald discusses how she got
				interested in the history of Sheridan County, which ultimately led to her
				conducting research for her doctoral dissertation and book on the Bolshevik
				Revolution taking place &amp; its impact, the transformation of the
				non-partisan league &amp; the socialists &amp; left wing socialists in Sheridan
				County during the 1920s; what she discovers while conducting research including
				why people came to this area in the early 20th century and from where they
				emigrated; the diversity of the county in regards to ethnicity, beliefs, and
				backgrounds; the Sioux Line; homesteading in the area; female homesteaders;
				social outlets in the region including the Farmer Movement &amp; other
				movements in the state; the history of Charlie Taylor; opponents of the Farmer
				Labor Party including Burley Bowler, Dr. Storken, and Harry Polk; the bank
				robbery of 1926; Rodney Salisbury, his personal family life, the downfall of
				communism in the area through the fusion of the Democrats and Republicans into
				the Tax Payers Economy League in 1932; the rise of the Third Perdio Communist
				ideology at the end of the 1920s &amp; the arrival of the Erik Bert and Ruth
				Bert to run the Producers News and the newspaper's demise. She ends with her
				family's own personal political beliefs during the Farm Labor Movement Era.
				</p> 
		  </scopecontent> 
		</c01> 
		<c01 level="item"> 
		  <did> 
			 <unitid>OH 2308_8</unitid> 
			 <unittitle encodinganalog="245$a">JOE NISTLER INTERVIEW </unittitle> 
			 <physdesc> <extent>69 minutes, Transcript 15 pages</extent>
			 </physdesc>
		  </did> 
		  <scopecontent encodinganalog="5202"> 
			 <p>In this interview Joe Nistler discusses moving to Plentywood,
				Montana as a teenager in the 1960s, working as the editor of the Sheridan
				County News and the research he has done about the Red Era; the Young Pioneer
				camps at Brush Lake; bootlegging in the area; the 1926 bank robbery and his
				speculations on its link to communism; the Plentywood Herald and Producers
				News; the funeral for Janis Salisbury; Sherif Rodney Salisbury, Charlie Taylor,
				and his son Carl &amp; their political beliefs during and after the Red
				movement; what ended communism in the county; Sheridan County politics today;
				how the decendants of the communists in the area have changed politically; the
				role religion in politics have affected the county; the National Socialist and
				Montana Socialist meeting in Plentywood in 1960; the history of the Farm Labor
				Temple and who has occupied the building over the years.</p> 
		  </scopecontent> 
		</c01> 
		<c01 level="item"> 
		  <did> 
			 <unitid>OH 2308_9</unitid> 
			 <unittitle encodinganalog="245$a">DEBRA AND RICARDO OROZCO INTERVIEW
				</unittitle> 
			 <physdesc> <extent>61 minutes, Transcript 16 pages</extent>
			 </physdesc>
		  </did> 
		  <scopecontent encodinganalog="5202"> 
			 <p>In this interview Debra Orozco discusses growing up outside
				Plentywood during the 1960s and 1970s; her family's history in the area;
				hearing stories about communism from the elders in the community; what impact
				she believes Franklin Roosevelt had on politics; she and her husband, Ricardo
				Orozco's personal political beliefs throughout their lives, living both in and
				out of Montana; how their political beliefs have shifted since the 1980s and
				how livign outside the states and traveling the globe as a part of their
				military careers has impacted their politics. They then analyze if the radical
				past had any lasting effects on modern political beliefs of Sheridan County
				residents.</p> 
		  </scopecontent> 
		</c01> 
		<c01 level="item"> 
		  <did> 
			 <unitid>OH 2308_10</unitid> 
			 <unittitle encodinganalog="245$a">ROALD SELVIG INTERVIEW </unittitle>
			 
			 <physdesc> <extent>30 minutes, Transcript 7 pages</extent>
			 </physdesc>
		  </did> 
		  <scopecontent encodinganalog="5202"> 
			 <p>In this interview Roald Selvig discusses how his family came to
				this area from Norway; growing up in Outlook, Montana during the 1930s; what he
				remembers about the communist movement in the area; IWW workers on his father's
				farm; his personal political beliefs &amp; how he got them. </p> 
		  </scopecontent> 
		</c01> 
		<c01 level="item"> 
		  <did> 
			 <unitid>OH 2308_11</unitid> 
			 <unittitle encodinganalog="245$a">ED SMITH INTERVIEW </unittitle> 
			 <physdesc> <extent>89 minutes, Transcript 19 pages</extent>
			 </physdesc>
		  </did> 
		  <scopecontent encodinganalog="5202"> 
			 <p>In this interview Ed Smith explains how religion kept his family
				from joining the communist movement; how divided the town of Dagmar was
				(community activies of non-communists vs. communists); communists baseball
				team; the funeral of Janis Salisbury; his personal memories of the communists
				in the 1930s; the Young Pioneers; the joining fo the Democrats and Republicans
				to kick the communists out of the region after the Salisbury funeral; the
				Farmers Union; the Jim Ostby family; the outside influence on communism in the
				area including Mother Bloor; the impact of the press; his own political career
				(running for state representative in the 1960s, for governor in 1972, and for
				senate in the 1970s); his modern day political beliefs &amp; national politics
				impact on Sheridan County; how farming in the area has evolved since the
				1930s.</p> 
		  </scopecontent> 
		</c01> 
		<c01 level="item"> 
		  <did> 
			 <unitid encodinganalog="099">OH 2308_12</unitid> 
			 <unittitle encodinganalog="245$a">EMANUAL STATES INTERVIEW
				</unittitle> 
			 <physdesc> <extent>61 minutes, Transcript 10 pages</extent>
			 </physdesc>
		  </did> 
		  <scopecontent encodinganalog="5202"> 
			 <p>In this interview Emanual States discusses growing up in the
				Redstone, Montana area during the 1920s and 1930s; how communism wasn't
				prevalent in the Redstone area; prohibition, alcohol runners &amp; the brothel
				know as the Chicken House; Sherif Rodney Salisbury; why certain areas like
				Dagmar, Montana had more communists than Redstone; Charlie Taylor &amp; the
				Producers News; his parents' political beliefs; his own political view; how
				Republicans and Democrats have evolved since the communist movement; his time
				as an election board member in Redstone beginning in the late 1960s; what he
				knows about the IWW workers in when his father came to the region in 1910. </p>
			 
		  </scopecontent> 
		</c01> 
		<c01 level="item"> 
		  <did> 
			 <unitid>OH 2308_13</unitid> 
			 <unittitle encodinganalog="245$a">SHORTY TIMMERMAN INTERVIEW
				</unittitle> 
			 <physdesc> <extent>69 minutes, Transcript 16 pages</extent>
			 </physdesc>
		  </did> 
		  <scopecontent encodinganalog="5202"> 
			 <p>In this interview Shorty Timmerman discusses growing up outside
				Plentywood, Montana during the 1920s and 1930s; what he remembers about
				prohibition, stills, bootlegging; Jim Pobescue, his restaurant, and the
				controversy with a mouse allegedly being found in a bowl of soup served at the
				restaurant; farm equipment and reposessions; Charlie Taylor and his son Carl
				(whom he was friends with); the Producers News vs. the Plentywood Herald;
				tension between communists and non-communists in the neighborhood; the
				Salisbury family; coal mining in the area; IWW workers; the Great Depression
				and his experience in the Civil Conservation Corps; the concentration of
				communists close to the Sioux Line (near Dagmar); his personal political
				beliefs throughout the years (running non-partisan for mayor); the political
				beliefs of others in the area over the years; the family farm &amp; house; the
				Marie Hansen, her husband, Andy, and their children; the DeSilva family.</p> 
		  </scopecontent> 
		</c01> 
		<c01 level="item"> 
		  <did> 
			 <unitid>OH 2308_14 &amp; OH2308_15</unitid> 
			 <unittitle encodinganalog="245$a">JO ANNE TROXEL INTERVIEW
				</unittitle> 
			 <physdesc> <extent>211 minutes, 2 Transcripts 45 pages total</extent>
			 </physdesc>
		  </did> 
		  <scopecontent encodinganalog="5202"> 
			 <p>In this interview Jo Anne Troxel discusses her parent, Marie
				hansen and Rodney Salisbury; what she remembers about her father before his
				death; the relationship between Marie and Rodney; her parents' belief in
				politics &amp; marriage; her siblings and half-siblings; her memories from
				living in the Montana towns of Billings, Arless, Missoula, and Wolf Point;
				family dynamics throughout her life. On disc 2 she covers the early years of
				her parents' relationship &amp; their beliefs about communism; her relationship
				with her half-siblings later in life; her schooling from elementary on; working
				as a live-in nanny/maid as a young teenager in the Missoula area; living with
				her sister's fmaily with her younger brother in Wolf Point; her political
				beliefs throughout her life; her college experience &amp; teaching English in
				White Sulpher Springs, Montana and Bozeman, Montana; her mother later in
				life.</p> 
		  </scopecontent> 
		</c01> 
		<c01 level="item"> 
		  <did> 
			 <unitid>OH 2308_16</unitid> 
			 <unittitle encodinganalog="245$a">CHESTER WIRTZ INTERVIEW
				</unittitle> 
			 <physdesc> <extent>30 minutes, Transcript 7 pages</extent>
			 </physdesc>
		  </did> 
		  <scopecontent encodinganalog="5202"> 
			 <p>In this interview Chester Wirtz discusses growing up and farming
				in Plentywood, Montana during the 1930s and 1940s; religion and politics in his
				family; his understanding of communism in the area based on what he has read in
				books; outlaws in the area including Dutch Henry; Franklin Roosevelt's
				influence on politics; his modern day political beliefs. </p> 
		  </scopecontent> 
		</c01> 
		<c01 level="item"> 
		  <did> 
			 <unitid>OH 2308_17</unitid> 
			 <unittitle encodinganalog="245$a">ARDELLE HART INTERVIEW </unittitle>
			 
			 <physdesc> <extent>Transcript 7 pages</extent>
			 </physdesc>
		  </did> 
		  <scopecontent encodinganalog="5202"> 
			 <p>In this interview discusses growing up in the Outlook, Montana,
				her grandfather ranching around the Judith Basin at the turn of the 20th
				century; her parents and their political beliefs; what she remembers about the
				Young Pioneers and what she heard from others about the funeral for Janis
				Salisbury. What she remembers about Sherif Rodney Salisbury from Plentywood,
				Montana and his possible linkage to the court house robberies; her thoughts on
				the Producer News and its editor, Charlie Taylor; how political actions of
				leaders have affected the stance of ranchers and farmers differently. She ends
				with discussing her current political beliefs and how cap and trade has
				impacted her. </p> 
		  </scopecontent> 
		</c01> 
		<c01 level="item"> 
		  <did> 
			 <unitid>OH 2308_18</unitid>
			 <unittitle encodinganalog="245$a">ORVILLE NASH INTERVIEW</unittitle> 
			 <physdesc><extent>Transcript 23 pages</extent>
			 </physdesc>
		  </did> 
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			 <p>In this interview Orville Nash discusses growing up outside
				Delview, Montana; the "Red Years" in the Outlook, Montana area, including the
				arrival of Mrs. Bill Hass and Mother Bloor; farm equipment auctions put on by
				the Holiday Association; communist conventions in Plentywood, Montana;
				communist cells in the area, including the communities of Chewlex, Raymond, and
				Dagmar, Montana; the funeral of Janis Salisbury; what he thinks pushes people
				to communism; bootlegging out of Canada and Scobey, Montana; the IWW's; the
				downfall of communism in the area and people's political beliefs/tendencies
				immediately following &amp; throughout the decades including modern times;
				modern day communists in the area; the community during the Great Depression
				and the farming and ranching families' experiences during it; the non-partisan
				league; Elmer "Homing" Thompson; the John Birch Society; Mr. Nash's personal
				political beliefs &amp; how he got them.</p> 
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			 <unittitle encodinganalog="245$a">BILL WAGNER INTERVIEW </unittitle> 
			 <physdesc> <extent>Transcript 11 pages</extent>
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			 <p>In this interview Bill Wagner discusses growing up in the
				Plentywood area during the 1920s and 1930s; the animosity between the
				communists &amp; everyone else; offers a direct account of the funeral for
				Janis Salisbury (stood outside the Farmer Labor Temple); Sherif Rodney
				Salisbury; the IWW workers; the cases his father took as a lawyer; religion in
				the region; Dutch Henry; Charlie Taylor; why he believes people turned to
				communism; teacher Bernadine Logan; coal mining &amp; mines in the area;
				experiences with Native Americans in the area &amp; leasing reservation
				land.</p> 
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