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:Family background. Life at Fort Smith, Arkansas. Pioneering at Bluestem,
Washington (1898). Father's struggle to establish a farm, Work and play as a boy.
Joe
Wells family. End of small farming. 6-3-75 1.8 hr 40p
Duration:1:49:00Interviewer:Sam Schrager
Keywords:families homesteads farming schools African Americans games Native Americans colleges and universities education holidays homemakers
Locations:Aspendale Moscow
Topics:Experience in a segregated unit in Europe during World War I. Acceptance in
high school. Brother's career in Virginia; father-inlaw's pioneering. Family hay baling
operation. 7-7-75 2 hr 38p
Duration:2:02:37Interviewer:Sam Schrager
Keywords:African Americans armed forces childhood colleges and universities education families farming fighting hay immigrants racial discrimination schools timber world wars
Locations:Aspendale Moscow Troy Bovill
Topics:Independence of family as farmers. Dealing with job discrimination.
Supervising men as warehouse superintendent. Meeting wife's family. Flu epidemic.
Father's hunting. 8-4-75 2.2 hr 36p
Duration:2:14:59Interviewer:Sam Schrager
Keywords:automobiles childhood education families farming fighting holidays hunting illness mills orchards racial discrimination railroads schools sports thieves world wars
Locations:Aspendale Moscow Lewiston
Topics:Parents' teachings. One-room country school. Store purchases. Country people
in Moscow. 12-19-75 1.2 hr 28p
Duration:1:13:39Interviewer:Sam Schrager
Keywords:childhood schools education religion
Locations:Aspendale Moscow
Topics:Minimal effect of prejudice on family. Socializing in the neighborhood.
Farming in hard times. Work as superintendent. Entertainment as a young man. More
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Joe Wells family. 1-13-76 2.1 hr 42p
Duration:2:05:45Interviewer:Sam Schrager
Keywords:families childhood hunting winter world wars farming Great Depression work administration racial discrimination grain African Americans friendship neighbors armed forces
Locations:Aspendale Moscow
Topics:World War I. Jack Johnson. Aquaintances in Spokane. Not a musical family.
1-13-76 2hr 51p
Duration:2:05:55Interviewer:Sam Schrager
Keywords:African Americans veterans armed forces world wars racial discrimination sports churches religion families friendships dances music neighbors parties holidays schools fishing automobiles farming elderly foundries
Locations:Aspendale Moscow Spokane Washington Lenville Oregon Tensed