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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