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Interview with Henry Kolden, Part 5, Beltrami County Historical Society Oral History Collection, Bemidji, Minnesota

Interview with Henry Kolden, Part 5, Beltrami County Historical Society Oral History Collection, Bemidji, Minnesota
Henry Kolden discusses a man named Olson who was not a good lumberjack; what log drivers wore on their feet; how logs were marked; the route between Red Lake Agency and Fosston; the distance covered a day on a log drive; preventing logjams; who owned the timber; how they sharpened their axes; his regret in bringing his gun on his first trip to the area; lumberjack sky pilot Frank Higgins; hobos at Grand Forks; rain in 1896 washing out a log drive; selling his homestead; moving into Blackduck to start a store; and hauling supplies for the Langor schoolhouse. The recording is continued from BCHS 020a/b and BCHS 130a/b, and continues in BCHS 131a/b.
1950 - 1959
English
BCHS131a
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