Latah County Oral History Collection
Remembering Latah County and Idaho Life at the turn of the 20th century
Remembering Latah County and Idaho Life at the turn of the 20th century
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Topics:Retaliations against Potlatch Lumber Company arrogance. Winter logging. Gold
Hill gold; father's mining and bad mining stock. A smart coyote. 5-7-73 1.5 hr 39p
Duration:1:20:49Interviewer:Sam Schrager
Keywords:African Americans businesses childhood children dances families logging mines mining politics poor rivers sawmills timber winter
Locations:Potlatch Gold Hill Elk River
Topics:Sympathy for Indians as a boy. Murders of Chinese miners and a tramp.
Persecution of an ex-thief. IWW sabotage to pressure company. Gypsies; bootleggers;
the
Klan. New-fangled machinery. Demise of forest wilderness. 8-10-73 1.6 hr 43p
Duration:1:33:22Interviewer:Sam Schrager
Keywords:Chinese Americans Great Depression IWW Ku Klux Klan Native Americans automobiles bootlegging drinking farming fishing holidays horses immigrants lore mining murders police officers sports thieves wilderness women working conditions
Locations:Elk River Potlatch Palouse
Topics:Family life. Parents' view of school and dances. Getting settled at Harvard.
10-19-73 1 hr LS
Duration:1:01:19Interviewer:Laura Schrager
Keywords:dances families farming schools women
Locations:Harvard Hatter Creek
Topics:A boy's adventures on horse, bicycle, sled and skates. Competition with a
friend. Motorcycling. Coming of cars. Working in Potlatch sawmill: sources of conflict
in the crew; art of running saws. 10-19-73 1.9 hr 50p
Duration:1:43:16Interviewer:Sam Schrager
Keywords:automobilies accidents railroads fights sawmills childhood
Locations:Harvard Princeton Potlatch
Topics:Her work as servant girl on Potlatch Nob Hill. Class snobbery and self-made
men. Dating and marriage. Depression days. Gas rationing. Relation of country people
to
Potlatch. 11-14-75 2.3 hr 58p
Duration:2:19:51Interviewer:Sam Schrager
Keywords:Great Depression automobiles boardinghouses colleges and universities dances dating electricity families farming hunting immigrants mills politics poor presidents schools shivarees teaching weddings winter world wars
Locations:Potlatch