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1. Interview with Charlie Wight, Part 1, Beltrami County Historical Society Oral History Collection, Bemidji, Minnesota
- Creator:
- Wight, Charlie
- Date Created:
- 1953-03-14
- Description:
- Vandersluis speaks with Charlie Wight, timber cruiser, on March 14, 1953, in the doctor's office. Wight talks about where he was born; his family's move to Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin; lumbering activity in Western Wisconsin; whether there were any Native Americans living at Chippewa Falls; birch bark canoes on the Chippewa River; his grandfather helping install the first turbine wheel at the Chippewa River; his grandfather helping install the first turbine wheel at the Chippewa Falls mill; the reaches of the Weyerhaeuser company; how they moved lumber down river by rafts; brailing logs; and pool companies that took over on the Mississippi. Wight then discusses working as a cookee at a camp in Wisconsin; driving a one-horse tram car at the mill; where men from the mills went in the winter; toting supplies; learning the timber estimating business as a compass man with Billy Woods; how they travelled to the land they were cruising; supplies they packed; what areas they cruised; finding section corners scribed into trees; seeing the Red Lake-Leech Lake trail and other trails; what they saw on the north shore of Lake Bemidji; a bridge near Lake Andrusia and any other bridges; about the Farmer-Hines railroad; where he went after that first trip; mills and bridges at Brainerd; the Gull River Lumber Company's narrow gauge railroad; other cruising jobs; and early fires. Next, Wight discusses his acquaintances with Marcus D. Stoner and Sam Dolgaard; some logging operations around Turtle River; Dan Freeman logging at Long Lake; Freeman and Gray splitting up; where Bagley started working for Walker; about S. C. Bagley; Bagley's nephew, Buzzle; where logs went from Mallard Lake; and which loggers collaborated. This record contains parts of multiple interviews. Please refer to the transcripts for help understanding these.
- Contributing Institution:
- Beltrami County Historical Society
- Type:
- Sound Recording Nonmusical
- Format:
- Oral histories
2. Interview with Mrs. Boyd and Ojibwe Speakers about Buck Lake and Star Island, Beltrami County Historical Society Oral History Collection, Bemidji, Minnesota
- Date Created:
- 1950 - 1965
- Description:
- The interview with Mrs. Boyd and unidentified narrators was conducted by Dr. Charles Vandersluis on an unrecorded date in an unrecorded location. Mrs. Boyd and the unidentified narrators discuss a Presbyterian mission from Oberlin College in Cass Lake, Minnesota. They also discuss a trader who was killed, a trading post at Lake Andrusia, Minnesota, and a missionary who froze to death. The unidentified elder says that he attended the mission school founded by Bishop Whipple. They also discuss a mission or village on Ravens Point in Lake Winnibigoshish. Timestamps are included when the translator and the Ojibwe speaker have overlapping speech or numerous exchanges.
- Contributing Institution:
- Beltrami County Historical Society
- Type:
- Sound Recording Nonmusical
- Format:
- Oral histories
3. Interview with Wellington G. Schroeder, Part 1, Beltrami County Historical Society Oral History Collection, Bemidji, Minnesota
- Creator:
- Schroeder, Wellington
- Date Created:
- 1950 - 1959
- Description:
- Wellington Schroeder discusses where he was born and his childhood home; coming to Minnesota on a train and seeing the largest flour mill in the world; his father's farm at Sanford, Minnesota; hauling supplies for logging camps near Grand Rapids; helping unload the first steel rails of the Deer River logging railroad; how much different men in the logging camps made; being barn boss for the teamsters at a logging camp; the poor logging conditions in 1892-93; the financial constraints of logging companies; ice fishing on Maple Lake; starting a store in Bemidji; coming to Bemidji from Osakis; early businesses in Bemidji; hauling supplies for his store from Park Rapids; his custom-made wagon; making a killing on flour; hauling money for a bank; fixing the roads as he passed over them; his route into tow; following lumber teams to know where it was safe to drive; and buying and shipping blueberries. The interview continues in BCHS 084a.
- Contributing Institution:
- Beltrami County Historical Society
- Type:
- Sound Recording Nonmusical
- Format:
- Oral histories
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