Oscar & Hazel Olson (b. 1920)

Residence: Deary
Occupation(s): Homemaker; teacher; camp flunkey
Family Origin: Moved from central Idaho in the early forties

Interviews

Oscar & Hazel Olson Interview #1, 6/16/1976

Topics:
Living in a lumbercamp. Pleasures of flunkeying. Violent Pierce strike (1936). Lumberjack nicknames. Unmarried women teachers. Father's mistreatment in Sweden. Depression hardships. 6-16-76 2 hr
Duration:
2:05:50
Interviewer:
Sam Schrager
Keywords:
African Americans Great Depression IWW childhood cooking dances death drinking education families fighting fires flunkeying foremen gyppos homesteads illness immigrants logging camps lore lumberjacks marriage mess halls rural schools stores strikes teachers teaching women world wars
Locations:
Deary
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Source
Preferred Citation:
"Oscar & Hazel Olson (b. 1920)", Latah County Oral History Collection, University of Idaho Library Digital Collections, https://www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/lcoh/people/olson_oscarandhazel.html
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