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1. 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
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