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1. Interviews with Thomas Miller and Walter L. Brooks, Beltrami County Historical Society Oral History Collection, Bemidji, Minnesota
- Creator:
- Miller, Thomas; Brooks, Walter L.
- Date Created:
- 1950 - 1959
- Description:
- In the first part of the recording, Thomas Miller discusses constructing a county road between Bemidji and Fosston; the establishment of Pinewood; early Pinewood businesses; helping build the railroad between Bagley and Shevlin; and operating a sawmill with his dad. In the second part of the recording, Walter L. Brooks discusses what originally brought him to Bemidji; his childhood; playing football for the University of Wisconsin at Madison; how he got his first job in a bank; how he got a promotion at the bank; taking a new job at Northwestern National Bank in Minneapolis; a co-worker embezzling funds and implicating him; moving to the First National Bank; hearing about the job at Bemidji; how rough early Bemidji was; the early bank building; his home in early Bemidji; early bank operations; cashing time checks for lumberjacks; trying to encourage lumberjacks to save money; extending credit to saloonkeepers; how well lumberjacks treated his wife; Charlie Miles' automobile getting stuck in the sand; when gambling closed in Bemidji; when the saloons closed in Bemidji; an agreement with the Crookston Lumber Company to cover their excess taxes; boats on Lake Bemidji; and keeping horses. The interview was recorded on December 10, 1952.
- Contributing Institution:
- Beltrami County Historical Society
- Type:
- Sound Recording Nonmusical
- Format:
- Oral histories
2. Interview with Charles William Vandersluis, Part 2, Beltrami County Historical Society Oral History Collection, Bemidji, Minnesota
- Creator:
- Vandersluis, Charles William
- Date Created:
- 1950 - 1959
- Description:
- Dr. Vandersluis interviews his father, Charles William Vandersluis. Vandersluis discusses a man named Dick Palmer, who had a saloon; when Dick shot a man; when Fred Wightman had his pocketbook stolen at a boarding house; the popularity of gambling; gamblers leaving Bemidji for Nevada in 1915; singer Hank Underwood; when Solway burned down; Sieb Vandersluis, who was a printer in Solway; when Ernie [Flemming or Plummer?]'s logs freed themselves after three years; how Ernie Flemming met his wife; how Ernie made money; a man whose horses froze in Lake Winnibigoshish; how Ernie's daughter got sick with a painful skin ailment; making trips to Canada [to get liquor?]; Joe Markham selling his hotel, then digging a hole to pretend he was building another; Fred Brinkman turning his hotel into a theater; a series of theaters; serving on the building committee for the Elks building; Ernie Flemming helping finance the building; Al Jester and his resort; S. D. [Werks?] bringing in sheep; the area of Guthrie; changes to the city hall building when he was mayor; his memories of Buena Vista; and whether Bemidji put up money to have the terminal of the Red Lake, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad.
- Contributing Institution:
- Beltrami County Historical Society
- Type:
- Sound Recording Nonmusical
- Format:
- Oral histories
3. Interview with Charles William Vandersluis, Part 2, Beltrami County Historical Society Oral History Collection, Bemidji, Minnesota
- Creator:
- Vandersluis, Charles William
- Date Created:
- 1950 - 1959
- Description:
- The interview with Charles William Vandersluis (CWV) was conducted by his son, Dr. Charles Wilson Vandersluis, on an unrecorded date, possibly 1952, in an unrecorded location. Vandersluis discusses his own father immigrating from Holland during the Civil War and serving as a French interpreter in St. Cloud, Minnesota for the Red River oxcarts. He also describes log drives and delivering groceries to them when he was a boy. He provides an assessment of how T. B. Walker conducted surveys. He describes homesteading and the early businesses of Bemidji, Minnesota, including hotels and saloons. He tells a story about a woman named Liz who was sold as part of personal property. He also describes interactions between white settlers and Ojibwe people, including stories about Chief Bemidji and the Battle of Sugar Point. He also describes serving on the Bemidji school board and financing construction of a new school in 1923. The interview is continued from BCHS 029a.
- Contributing Institution:
- Beltrami County Historical Society
- Type:
- Sound Recording Nonmusical
- Format:
- Oral histories
4. Interview with Harry Carson, Earl Geil, Carl Warner, and an unidentified man, Beltrami County Historical Society Oral History Collection, Bemidi, Minnesota
- Creator:
- Carson, Harry; Geil, Earl; Warner, Carl
- Date Created:
- 1950 - 1959
- Description:
- There are at least four men in the group being interviewed, including Harry Carson and Earl Geil, and a man named Warner, probably Carl Warner. Quote attributed to "unkown" may refer to more than one man. One of the unidentified men could be a brother of Geil's, possibly Harry Geil. The group discusses the names of Chief Bemidji's children; the relationship between the Carsons and Chief Bemidji; a man named Hinch sketching Chief Bemidji for a statue; coming to Bemidji before the mill started; whether early Bemidji was safe for women; when the Geil family came to Bemidji; the Geils freighting for the Carsons; the Geils building a house; Geil and McTaggart purchasing the Remore Hotel; about Guy Remore; running the Remore Hotel; fleas, lice and bedbugs; the Markham Hotel; settlers who were in Bemidji before the Geils; hauling in a boiler from Park Rapids; working at the Steidl mills; the Swedback mill; about Warner's travels from North Dakota by covered wagon; Earl Geil stopping Willis Brannon's runaway team; their memories of the local panic about the Leech Lake uprising; when a group of Ojibwe raided a liquor delivery; the mission between Lake Andrusia and Cass Lake; the city opera house; early doctors, hospitals, and smallpox; the origin of the Bemidji fire department; and the fire on Whiskey Row. This record contains parts of multiple interviews. Please refer to the transcripts for help understanding these.
- Contributing Institution:
- Beltrami County Historical Society
- Type:
- Sound Recording Nonmusical
- Format:
- Oral histories
5. Interview with Henry Kolden, Part 1, Beltrami County Historical Society Oral History Collection, Bemidji, Minnesota
- Creator:
- Kolden, Henry
- Date Created:
- 1950 - 1959
- Description:
- The interview with Henry Kolden was conducted by Dr. Charles Vandersluis on an unrecorded date in an unrecorded location, probably Blackduck, Minnesota. Kolden discusses arriving in Blackduck, in 1901 and building and operating a grocery and hardware store. He describes Marcus D. Stoner's efforts to establish Blackduck and the area's early hotels, saloons, churches, attorneys, doctors, and hospital. He describes the myth of Ojibwe Chief Blackduck. He explains that Summit Avenue is located close to the Great Divide. He also describes meeting attorney Henry Funkley for the first time and the activities of traveling salesman. The interview is continued in BCHS 020b, BCHS 130a/b, and BCHS 131a/b.
- Contributing Institution:
- Beltrami County Historical Society
- Type:
- Sound Recording Nonmusical
- Format:
- Oral histories
6. Interview with James M. Reid, Part 2, Beltrami County Historical Society Oral History Collection, Bemidji, Minnesota
- Creator:
- Reid, James M.
- Date Created:
- 1950 - 1959
- Description:
- The interview was conducted by Dr. Charles Vandersluis on an unrecorded date in at the hardware store of James Madison Reid in Glendora, California. Reid discusses selling merchandise in Blackduck, Minnesota from 1901 to 1920. He describes methods of transportation and hauling good in the early days. He also discusses selling to loggers and describes local surveyor Marcus D. Stoner. He describes early businesses including the cedar industry. He also describes developing the Blackduck Cooperative Creamery as logging activities waned. He also describes the near bankruptcy of Beltrami County and how counties were divided.
- Contributing Institution:
- Beltrami County Historical Society
- Type:
- Sound Recording Nonmusical
- Format:
- Oral histories
7. Interview with John Van House, Beltrami County Historical Society Oral History Collection, Bemidji, Minnesota
- Creator:
- Van House, John
- Date Created:
- 1955
- Description:
- Van House recalls businesses in Kelliher, Cann and Whitting, Beltrami Timber Company, toting freight from Solway to Red Lake, homestead rush after reservation opening, Bob Nevins, and many various lumber companies and their camps in the Kelliher area; Joe Jerome's post office at Battle River; when he homesteaded; the locations of Craig's Hotel, Linnon's saloon, and other saloons and businesses in Kelliher; a flowing well near Foy; and the steamboat Dahlburg, on which he ran the engine for three years. The woman speaking in the interview is probably is his wife, Catherine Van House. This record contains parts of multiple interviews. Please refer to the transcripts for help understanding these.
- Contributing Institution:
- Beltrami County Historical Society
- Type:
- Sound Recording Nonmusical
- Format:
- Oral histories
8. Interview with Sam Dolgaard, Beltrami County Historical Society Oral History Collection, Bemidji, Minnesota
- Creator:
- Dolgaard, Sam
- Date Created:
- 1950 - 1959
- Description:
- The recording is a multi-part interview with Sam Dolgaard, early resident of Saum area. Dolgaard talks about the location of Saum, the Matsons donating land for a school; Matson's sawmill; the election of 1903; the names of various Saum residents; whether Foy had a Post office; and starting a post office at Saum; scouting out his land prior to homesteading; arriving at Battle River, where Joe Jerome had a store and post office; his work contracting with logging companies; switching to work in scaling; building the Battle River dam; where he got materials to build his house; working for the Thief River Falls Lumber Company; wildfires; his recollection of J. J. Upsahl; timber moving from Funkley to Kelliher by railroad; the cedar business; how Kelliher got its name; early residents of Woodrow and Battle townships; what the area looked like when he arrived; getting merchandise from Golden and Thompson in Blackduck; what livestock they brought to Saum; and early schools. This record contains parts of multiple interviews. Please refer to the transcripts for help understanding these.
- Contributing Institution:
- Beltrami County Historical Society
- Type:
- Sound Recording Nonmusical
- Format:
- Oral histories
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