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Interviews with Harriet Villemin Cameron, and Louis Villemin, Part 1, Beltrami County Historical Society Oral History Collection, Bemidji, Minnesota

Interviews with Harriet Villemin Cameron, and Louis Villemin, Part 1, Beltrami County Historical Society Oral History Collection, Bemidji, Minnesota
Harriet Villemin Cameron discusses a lumberjack named Big Mike; feeding logging crews; the wild town of Tenstrike and a murder there; her memories of Henry Funkley; the couple she got her furniture from; and Grandma Carson. Dr. Vandersluis reads the text of deeds to her land. Previous interviews are found in BCHS 054a and BCHS 054b. In the second part of the recording, Cameron's brother, Louis Villemin, discusses his arrival in Bemidji; his arrival in Porterville, California; his homestead in northern Minnesota; his horses, Billy and Prince; and the Dewey battle on Lake Bemidji. The recording, dated December 1953, is continued in bchs103b. Villemin was speaking from Porterville, California, probably via telephone.
1953 - 1959
English
BCHS103a
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