KJ102 Radio Broadcast "A Look Back in Time Stories" read by Irene Olson, includes a story of Chief Mickinock in 1896 as written by G. Arnold Grefthen in his book "Land of Howling Wolves'
KJ102 Radio Broadcast "A Look Back in Time Stories" read by Florence Klema, includes an article titled "Autum Makes Tom (Lightning) Kind of Lonesome for the Old Chippewa Way of Life"
KJ102 Radio Broadcast "A Look Back in Time Stories" read by Irene Olson about Florenz Lins and Martin Van Buren Dieter of Dieter Township for Hazel Wahlberg's book, and the Ross community by Earl V. Chapin
KJ102 Radio Broadcast "A Look Back in Time Stories" read by Irene Olson, of the first Christmas with the Bernt Thompson family near Wannaska in 1895 from the book "Land of Howling Wolves" by G. Arnold Grethen
KJ102 Radio Broadcast "A Look Back in Time Stories" read by Irene Olson includes the story of William Oliver and family moving from North Dakota to northwest Minnesota and his daughter Edith Oliver Battles who stayed in the area.
KJ102 Radio Broadcast "A Look Back in Time Stories" read by Irene Olson includes a story of Elizabeth Schires's memories of Beltrami Forest Area and Hayes Lake State Park.
KJ102 Radio Broadcast "A Look Back in Time Stories" read by Florence Klema, includes an article titled "Nations Northern Most Reporter-Mr.s. Edison Richard-1951"
KJ102 Radio Broadcast "A Look Back in Time Stories" read by Florence Klema, includes an article titled "Guarded by Lakes of Restless Waters and Wilderness" a Sport Fisherman Guide written by Herbert Miller
A Look Back in Time Stories read by Florence Klema on the Radio Station KJ102. This is a reading of a story in the Roseau Times Region in the Corner Post written by Bill F Adams titled "Northwest Angle"
KJ102 Radio Broadcast "A Look Back in Time Stories" read by Irene Olson,of Matt Johnson and Bernt Thompson coming to the Wannaska area in 1895 and Bernt's daughter Mina Thompson herding the cattle written by G Arnold Grefthen in"Land of Howling Wolves"
KJ102 Radio Broadcast "A Look Back in Time Stories" read by Denise DeFrates about the Bicentennial Wagon Train traveled by Andy and Oline Erickson and family from Saint Paul, Minnesota to Valley Forge, Pennsylvania.
KJ102 Radio Broadcast "A Look Back in Time Stories" read by Irene Olson of an article written for the Roseau County Centennial Book about the City of Roosevelt
KJ102 Radio Broadcast "A Look Back in Time Stories" read by Bob Thacker about Early Politics, First Voting in Roseau County in 1896, Civil War and 1929 Depression
KJ102 Radio Broadcast "A Look Back in Time Stories" read by Florence Klema, includes an article titled "A View From Here-Northwest Angle Road" published in the Warroad Pioneer
KJ102 Radio Broadcast "A Look Back in Time Stories" read by Irene Olson that was written by Audrey Jenson for the Roseau County Centennial Book titled "Years Gone By"
KJ102 Radio Broadcast "A Look Back in Time Stories" read by Irene Olson of an article written by Joe McDonnell for the Roseau County Centennial Book about Wannaska "Life in a Small Town"
Interview with Paul Buran in Roseau, Minnesota. The interview was conducted by Carol Schwichtenberg. Paul discusses his life events, including his childhood in Roseau, Minnesota and his newspaper business with the Roseau Times Region.
KJ102 Radio Broadcast "A Look Back in Time Stories" read by Irene Olson, includes a stories of Matt Johnson and Bernt Thompson coming to the Wannaska area in 1895.
KJ102 Radio Broadcast "A Look Back in Time Stories" read by Florence Klema, includes an article titled "Retreat of the Philosophical Reckloose" by Rick Lockhart
KJ102 Radio Broadcast "A Look Back in Time Stories" read by Irene Olson of an article written by Dan Fischer for the Roseau County Centennial Book about Hayes State Park
KJ102 Radio Broadcast "A Look Back in Time Stories" read by Florence Klema, includes an article titled "Mr.. and Mr.s. Lawrence Saurdiff Golden Anniversary"
KJ102 Radio Broadcast "A Look Back in Time Stories" read by Florence Klema, includes an article titled "Uranium Discovered in Lake of the Woods County"
KJ102 Radio Broadcast "A Look Back in Time Stories" read by Irene Olson of an article written by Ralph Meek for the Roseau County Centennial & Heritage Books about Swift
A Look Back in Time Stories read by Irene Olson on the Radio Station KJ102. This reading includes an article written by Earl Chapin in 1948 about the Roseau County Museum.
KJ102 Radio Broadcast "A Look Back in Time Stories" read by Florence Klema, includes an article titled "The Church and the Wilderness-Northwest Angle-Honorable Hagen" and other NW Angle articles
KJ102 Radio Broadcast "A Look Back in Time Stories" read by Irene Olson includes the story of John A. Rein, known as the church man who built many churches and painted the Rein Altar Painting. A man of many talents.
KJ102 Radio Broadcast "A Look Back in Time Stories" read by Florence Klema are excerpts from a book about the Risser cousin's first trip to Minneapolis from the Northwest Angle. Sam was 14years old and Delores was 15 years old.
Radio KQ92 radio station broadcast of a debate between Mayor Bob Marvin and Bob Bergland on moving the Roseau County seat to Warroad, Minnesota from Roseau, Minnesota.
KJ102 Radio Broadcast "A Look Back in Time Stories" Interview by Florence KlemaI with Jack Comstock about the building of the Northwest Angle road project
KJ102 Radio Broadcast "A Look Back in Time Stories" reading by Florence Klema of the History of Roseau County starting in 1732 La Vendrey, and an interview with Erwin G. Parker
Interview with Allan "Buddy" Magnusson, Roseau Minnesota. The interview was conducted by Helen Engebretson. Buddy discusses the Magnusson family history and past Christmas memoriies
KJ102 Radio Broadcast "A Look Back in Time Stories" interview by Florence Klema and Millard Jenson of Forest Rangers, Oscar Hendershot and George Bergland
A narrative of War History to be used for a war artifacts exhibit. Wars included are : Civil War, Spanish/American, World War One, World War Two, Korean and Vietnam Wars.
KJ102 Radio Broadcast "A Look Back in Time Stories" Interview by Florence Klema of Norman Hohn about Early Logging Experiences in the Northwest Angle and the Ice Road
Interviews with Alma Lee, Minie (Lee) Jorgenson and Rosella (Dahlquist) Knochenmus reminiscing about their lives in Roseau County Minnesota. They talk about Dieter, sawmill, Indians, Max Jones, Mickinock, Ross, bears,
KJ102 Radio Broadcast "A Look Back in Time Stories" interview by Florence Klema of Ingvald Sunset, curator of the Museum, and readings about the Northwest Angle, Red River Carts, Hetteen Hoist and Derrick, and Dr. Delmore
KJ102 Radio Broadcast "A Look Back in Time Stories" includes readings from a Bible Study and reading of a letter to Hazel Wahlberg from Bert Wenner of Missoula Montana.
A Look Back in Time Stories read by Florence Klema on the Radio Station KJ102. This includes an interview of Swede Olson who was a former Game Warden at the Northwest Angle
Interview with Laura Knochenmus about how her husband, Ernest Knochenmus, got started in trucking in Roseau County Minnesota. She talks about what he hauled, for whom he hauled, and the time period of the business.
Interview with Marshall Wiskow in Roseau, Minnesota. The interview was conducted by Florence Klema. Marshall discussed his life after coming to Roseau County in 1904 at age 11 years. He discussed childhood to adulthood and a variety of events.
Program about Prehistoric Roseau County given by Mike Bulak who is an archeolgist from International Falls, Minnesota. Mike talks about his methods and techniques on conducting archeologic studies.
Interview with David Johnson, one of the men who started Polaris in Roseau, Minnesota. The interview was done by Jack Swanson on the radio program Friends and Neighbors. David spoke of the beginnings and some of the other inventions they had.
Side 1: KJ102 Radio Broadcast "A Look Back in Time Stories" Interview by Florence Klema of Al Markovitch, Game Warden at the Northwest Angle and Warroad in 1957; Side 2: The continuation of the interview with Al Markovitch and Swede Olson, another Game Warden at the Northwest Angle.
A narrative of Prince Maximilian's 1832 expedition across the United States, from Boston to near the headwaters of the Missouri River in the Rocky Mountains and back.
KJ102 Radio Broadcast "A Look Back in Time Stories" interviews by Florence Klema of George Marvin, Maggie Aas, and Faye Young. Readings from the Plaindealer 1897-1899 about Warroad Families Histories
KJ102 Radio Broadcast "A Look Back in Time Stories" Interview by Florence Klema and Hazel Wahlberg of Rudy Billberg who was a Pilot servicing the Northwest Angle
KJ102 Radio Broadcast "A Look Back in Time Stories" includes an interview with Carl Wahlberg about Polaris History,; the reading of "Murder of Mr.s. Wheeler", "Murder of Hans Lightning", and excerpts from Lucy Colson's scrapbook about son David at the Northwest Angle
Henry Carter and his daughter-in-law, Josephine Knutson (Mrs. Cass) Carter, discuss Henry Carter's history before coming to the area; his start as a timber cruiser; what he ate and how he lived on a cruising trip; cruisers he remembered; Carter's and Vandersluis's opinions about how Native Americans were treated in timber deals; whether there was a need for Indian Agencies; moving logs by water versus by rail; and working for J.Neils. The recording is dated June 8, 1952. It is continued in BCHS 077b.
Archie Logan discusses deadhead logs; where log marks were recorded; the lengths of logs; how logs were loaded on railroad cars; most prevalent species of timber; cedar yards around Kelliher; the logging railroad from Nebish to Red Lake; where logging took place in the mid-1880s; the logging railroad out of Crosslake; the narrow-gauge line at Gull Lake; smallpox in the lumber camps; quarantine in a lumber camp; and the source of the Mississippi. Leonard Dickinson is also part of the conversation. The recording is part of a series, continued from BCHS 115a, BCHS 115b, and BCHS 079a, and continued in BCHS116a and BCHS 116b.
Archie Logan discusses wages, room, and board as a logger; what loggers ate in lumber camps; logging accidents and health care available to injured loggers; lumberjack sky pilot Frank Higgins; what the Native Americans in the area ate; whether Native Americans got a fair deal for their lumber; how the lumber industry cruised forests for the best timber early on; traveling to Buena Vista by steamboat; stagecoaches; Freeman Doud; Tom Joy; early logging around Red Lake; steamboats used to haul timber on lakes; the volume of logs put in the river from Red Lake depending on conditions; how a sorting works operated; and deadhead logs. Leonard Dickinson is also part of the conversation. The recording is part of a series, continued from BCHS 115a and BCHS 116b, continuing in BCHS 079b, BCHS 116a, and BCHS 116b.
Wellington Schroeder discusses establishing a dam at Bemidji with the Warfield brothers; the building he built with Julius Miller; building another building and how much contractors were paid; being in a financial wreck; his first homestead; Clarence Speelman; taking a Beltrami County exhibit to the state fair; organizing the county fairgrounds; a saloon-keeper at Tenstrike who wanted to take road contracts; and getting stuck in a storm with a team of horses. The interview is continued from BCHS 105b. In the second part of the recording, Peter Rudolph Peterson tells of the life of lumberjack sky pilot Frank Higgins; how they met; Higgins' death; and Higgins' conversion of John Sornberger. The interview continues in BCHS 084b.
Wight, Charlie; Bourgeois, Euclid; Brooks, Walter L.
Date Created:
1956 - 1959
Description:
The following oral history was recorded by Dr. Charles Vandersluis. The interview(s) include Charlie Wight, Euclid (Ernie) Bourgeois, and other unknown people, including probably Howard Newcomb. Wight, Bourgeois and others talk about the singer Hank Underwood and his family and Hank Underwood's funeral. Other topics include Tom Nary; the Carver brothers; the Stewart family; a preacher in Laporte and Nary; the Hines family; 'Grampy' Porter Nye. Walter L. Brooks talks about payments on the Red Lake reservation; a man reads what he says is an interview with Maurice Godfrey on February 1, 1956, in which Godfrey talks about his father, a boat builder; various boats in the area; the locations of camps and lakes; various dams; Bob Neving; and Bagley's nephew, Buzzle.
Lillian French Baney discusses where her parents came from; her early life in Lincoln, Nebraska, and the St. Cloud area; her family's arrival at Bagley; their early situation at Four-Legged Lake; her father's efforts to organize the township and a school; the bachelors who tried to run a store on their property; her father's acquisition of the store and commission of a post office; the mail route from Bagley; Henry How's stopping place; a group of Frenchmen who stayed at her family's stopping place during a rumored Native American uprising; the Noonan lumber camp; Dr. McKinnon and Dr. Gilmore; a Native American campground on their claim; the brothel at Klondike; penalties for providing liquor to a Native American; Mrs. Henry How's reputation; wanigans near Bob Neving's place; and Clearwater Dam. The recording, dated October 3, 1955, is continued in bchs088b.
Knute Rauk discusses where he was born; when he and his family came to Shevlin; his father's hardware business; the Beltrami County Advocate; operating the printing press at Shevlin; banks in Shevlin; the Mallard Call newspaper and early Mallard. George Kerr talks about his paper route in Brainerd; his dream of being a railroad engineer; logging on the Gull River; the Stony Brook and Northern; a railroad machine shop, possibly at East Brainerd; the lower and upper landings; the dangers of unloading logs; the use of stakes to secure logs on train cars; the Brainerd and Northern Minnesota railroad; and railroad operations at Lothrop. Charlie Wight is also present. The Kerr interview continues in BCHS 120b.
Archie Logan and Leonard Dickinson discuss how lumberjacks were recruited; what lumberjacks did in their free time; Sundays in the lumber camp; salesmen in the camps; Catholic sisters in the camps; lumberjack sky pilot Frank Higgins; where settlers came from; Indian agents; Redby; John G. Morrison, Jr., and his collection; Indian Paul; early Buena Vista; Dickinson's father's box company; getting cheated of payment; and eminent domain. The recording is part of a series, continued from BCHS 115a, BCHS 115b, BCHS 079a, and BHCS 079b, and continued in BCHS 116b.
Edna Dunham (Mrs. Jack) Essler discusses where she was born and how her family first came to St. Peter, Minnesota; her grandfather's livestock business; her first teaching jobs at Traverse des Sioux, Lake Washington, Kasota, and Cleveland; working at Kerr's Department Store in Minneapolis; going with her friend, Miss Lula Rickmire, to stay at her homestead claim in Itasca County; buying her own relinquishment in Itasca County; what Farley and Blackduck looked like when she first went through; going up to her own homestead for the first time; her and Miss Rickmire's encounter with a bear; meeting her husband; teaching a country school near her claim; buying her land; getting married at Blackduck; what Bemidji looked like in 1902; and early doctors in Bemidji. The recording is continued in bchs087b.
Charles Lemuel (Charlie) Slough and Christian Hoines discuss Slough coming to Bemidji in 1901; what Bemidji looked like at the time; what Nary looked like at the time; many local residents; fires at Nary; a story about Slough's father sleeping in a rut in the road; Slough's father losing his gun in the lake; Al Jester; who was logging around Nary; how much money loggers made; rocks in the ground; early days on Slough's homestead; how companies acquired timber land; logging companies selling land to a land company; S. D. [Samuel Dallas] Works selling land; and a large sheep operation. The recording is continued from bchs106a.
