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Place: John Day River Valley (Or.)--History.
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- Cant, James, 1879-1972. (1)
- Cant, James, Jr. (1)
- Cant, Elizabeth. (1)
- Cant, Freda. (1)
- Humphreys, Dollina. (1)
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- Oregon (1)
- Women (1)
- Agriculture (1)
- Sound Recordings (1)
- Land Use (1)
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Oral Histories of the James Cant Ranch (John Day Valley, Oregon), 1982-1985
Repository: Oregon State University Libraries, Special Collections and Archives Research Center
Abstract: The Oral Histories of the James Cant Ranch are comprised of interviews with fifteen individuals that tell the story of James and Elizabeth Cant's successful agricultural operation - established in northeast Oregon on the John Day River in the early 1900s - and of rural agricultural life in the region where the Cant Ranch was located. The Cant family raised irrigated crops and livestock for over sixty years on a tract of land that came to encompass over 11,000 acres. In 1975 the Cant Ranch complex was purchased by the National Park Service for incorporation into the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument.