PERSON
Frank MILBERT Item Info
Born
1907
Occupation
Gold miner
Interviewers
Sam Schrager
Origin
Came west from Pennsylvania in the twenties
Residence
Gold Hill; Potlatch
Interviews
Frank Milbert Interview #1, 06/18/1975
June 18, 1975
2.5 hr 54p
Sam Schrager
Discovery of Gold Hill gold (1861). Gold Creek rush (1868). Gold rush life. Carrico family mining. Persecution of Chinese miners. Lost Wheelbarrow Mine. Park Shattuck's...
Chinese Americans
gold
miners
mining
Frank Milbert Interview #2, 06/20/1975
June 20, 1975
3 hr 58p
Sam Schrager
Dowsing for gold. Stories about local miners. Promoters. How gold spurred early settlement. Gold mining in the twenties. Dredging the Palouse River. Nature of gold...
dredging
gold
homesteads
miners
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Locations Map
Interview Topics
- Title:
- Frank MILBERT
- Format:
- compound_object
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Frank MILBERT", Latah County Oral History Collection, University of Idaho Library Digital Collections, https://www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/lcoh/people/milbert_frank.html
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