Claud Deluse Fish discusses homesteading at Island Lake, Minnesota in 1902. He also discusses logging and laying railroad. He discusses the store in Bena, Minnesota and explains a stone and timber claim. He also describes interactions between white settlers and Ojibwe people, including a smallpox episode, intermarriage, and white people gaining access to Ojibwe allotments on reservations. The interview begins in BCHS 070a and continues in BCHS 069a and BCHS 071a.
The interview with Claud Fish was conducted by an unidentified interviewer on an unrecorded date in an unrecorded location. Claud Fish discusses travelling through Bena, Deer River, Moose Lake, and Island Lake, Minnesota in 1901. He also discusses moving there in 1902 to homestead and building a house. He also discusses toting goods from Bena, Minnesota and working in the logging industry. The interview is the third in a series, beginning in BCHS 070a and continuing in BCHS 070b, and finishing in BCHS 071a.
Claud Fish discusses moving to Buffalo and Deer River, Minnesota in 1881 and 1898, respectively. He discusses homesteading, logging, laying railroads, and farming. He describes mail delivery by moose and horses that were killed on the railroad. He discusses how Koochiching County split from Itasca County. He also describes the Itasca Lumber Company, J. P. Sims, and a variety of railway lines. The interview continues in BCHS 070b, BCHS 069a, and concludes in BCHS 071a.
The first interview, with Claud Fish, was conducted by Dr. Charles Vandersluis on May 27, 1955, in an unrecorded location. Fish describes a series of photographs from near Northome, Minnesota including at Bowstring Lake and his homestead on Island Lake. He discusses laying railroad lines, the Itasca Logging Company, and J. P. Sims. He also discusses how Ojibwe people lived and processed wild rice near Island Lake. The interview is the fourth in the series, continuing from BCHS 070a, BCHS 070b, and BCHS 069a. The second part of the recording is an interview with Emma Knutson [Mrs. Mike Knutson], conducted by Dr. Charles Vandersluis on July 2, 1955, in an unrecorded location. Knutson discusses arriving in Big Fork, Minnesota in 1902. She describes toting goods by foot and later traveling by train. She also describes mail delivery by dog team from Marcell, Minnesota. The third part of the recording is a discussion with a group of unidentified narrators, conducted by Dr. Charles Vandersluis on an unrecorded date in an unrecorded location. The group of unidentified narrators discuss logging in northern Minnesota around 1900. They discuss the Clearwater Logging Company's camp near Pinewood, Minnesota. They also discuss the Bagley dam, timber sales, and how T. B. Walker acquired his timber holdings. This portion of the recording continues on BCHS 071b. The final portion of the recording is an interview with an unidentified narrator (possibly referred to as Charlie in BCHS 071b), conducted by an unidentified interviewer, possibly Dr. Charles Vandersluis, on an unrecorded date in an unrecorded location. The unidentified narrator discusses how a logging company would prepare its ox teams in St. Cloud, Minnesota to go up north in the 1880s. He also discusses the tornado at St. Cloud, Minnesota on April 14, 1886. This portion of the recording continues on BCHS 071b.
