Red River Valley Sugarbeet Industry Oral History Project

Titles: Red River Valley Sugarbeet Industry Oral History Project (Supplied title)

Description: Interviews document the American Crystal Sugar Company's operations in the Red River Valley farming region of Minnesota and North Dakota and the company buyout by the Red River Valley Sugarbeet Growers Association. Includes discussion on the sugarbeet industry, including labor, research, and changes in farming methods. COMMENTS ON INTERVIEW: Original transcripts and sound cassettes are held by the Northwest Minnesota Historical Center, Moorhead.

Dates

• 1987 - 1990 (Creation)

Interviews

• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, transcript: 'Red River Valley Sugarbeet Industry Oral History Project: Interview with Maurice Aronson' <OH 40>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, transcript: 'Red River Valley Sugarbeet Industry Oral History Project: Interview with Lyle Kiel' <OH 40>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, transcript: 'Red River Valley Sugarbeet Industry Oral History Project: Interview with Victor Martin' <OH 40>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, transcript: 'Red River Valley Sugarbeet Industry Oral History Project: Interview with Walter Ness' <OH 40>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, transcript: 'Red River Valley Sugarbeet Industry Oral History Project: Interview with Robert Nyquist' <OH 40>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, transcript: 'Red River Valley Sugarbeet Industry Oral History Project: Interview with Gerhard Ross' <OH 40>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, transcript: 'Red River Valley Sugarbeet Industry Oral History Project: Interview with Leo N. Sinner' <OH 40>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, transcript: 'Red River Valley Sugarbeet Industry Oral History Project: Interview with Eddie Bernhardson' <OH 40>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, transcript: 'Red River Valley Sugarbeet Industry Oral History Project: Interview with Harvey Bloomquist' <OH 40>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, transcript: 'Red River Valley Sugarbeet Industry Oral History Project: Interview with Beatriz Muzquiz Castillo' <OH 40>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, transcript: 'Red River Valley Sugarbeet Industry Oral History Project: Interview with Dr. Alan Dexter' <OH 40>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, transcript: 'Red River Valley Sugarbeet Industry Oral History Project: Interview with William Dosland' <OH 40>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, transcript: 'Red River Valley Sugarbeet Industry Oral History Project: Interview with Donald Grant' <OH 40>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, transcript: 'Red River Valley Sugarbeet Industry Oral History Project: Interview with Emmet Gunderson' <OH 40>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, transcript: 'Red River Valley Sugarbeet Industry Oral History Project: Interview with George A. Sinner' <OH 40>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, transcript: 'Red River Valley Sugarbeet Industry Oral History Project: Interview with Merle Allen' <OH 40>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, transcript: 'Red River Valley Sugarbeet Industry Oral History Project: Interview with Herbert Anderson' <OH 40>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, transcript: 'Red River Valley Sugarbeet Industry Oral History Project: Interview with Stewart Bass' <OH 40>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, transcript: 'Red River Valley Sugarbeet Industry Oral History Project: Interview with Lloyd Beiswenger and Ruth Beiswenger' <OH 40>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, transcript: 'Red River Valley Sugarbeet Industry Oral History Project: Interview with Patrick Benedict' <OH 40>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, transcript: 'Red River Valley Sugarbeet Industry Oral History Project: Interview with Wilburn Brekken' <OH 40>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, transcript: 'Red River Valley Sugarbeet Industry Oral History Project: Interview with Richard G. Canning' <OH 40>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, transcript: 'Red River Valley Sugarbeet Industry Oral History Project: Interview with Esther Engel and Meta Engel' <OH 40>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, transcript: 'Red River Valley Sugarbeet Industry Oral History Project: Interview with John Fiandaca' <OH 40>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, transcript: 'Red River Valley Sugarbeet Industry Oral History Project: Interview with Ole Finstad and Mary Finstad' <OH 40>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, transcript: 'Red River Valley Sugarbeet Industry Oral History Project: Interview with Frank W. Forbes' <OH 40>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, transcript: 'Red River Valley Sugarbeet Industry Oral History Project: Interview with Manvel Green and Johanna Green' <OH 40>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, transcript: 'Red River Valley Sugarbeet Industry Oral History Project: Interview with Harlow Grove and Telbert Grove' <OH 40>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, transcript: 'Red River Valley Sugarbeet Industry Oral History Project: Interview with W.V. Grover' <OH 40>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, transcript: 'Red River Valley Sugarbeet Industry Oral History Project: Interview with Harold Helmeke' <OH 40>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, transcript: 'Red River Valley Sugarbeet Industry Oral History Project: Interview with George Howe' <OH 40>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, transcript: 'Red River Valley Sugarbeet Industry Oral History Project: Interview with Alfred Jensen' <OH 40>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, transcript: 'Red River Valley Sugarbeet Industry Oral History Project: Interview with C. Einar Johnson' <OH 40>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, transcript: 'Red River Valley Sugarbeet Industry Oral History Project: Interview with R. Richard Koester' <OH 40>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, transcript: 'Red River Valley Sugarbeet Industry Oral History Project: Interview with Richard Krabbenhoft' <OH 40>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, transcript: 'Red River Valley Sugarbeet Industry Oral History Project: Interview with Larry LaHaise' <OH 40>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, transcript: 'Red River Valley Sugarbeet Industry Oral History Project: Interview with Don Ness' <OH 40>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, transcript: 'Red River Valley Sugarbeet Industry Oral History Project: Interview with Ted Peet' <OH 40>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, transcript: 'Red River Valley Sugarbeet Industry Oral History Project: Interview with Edward Reitmeier' <OH 40>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, transcript: 'Red River Valley Sugarbeet Industry Oral History Project: Interview with William Robertson' <OH 40>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, transcript: 'Red River Valley Sugarbeet Industry Oral History Project: Interview with Tom Ronan, Jr.' <OH 40>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, transcript: 'Red River Valley Sugarbeet Industry Oral History Project: Interview with Armin Ross and Jim Ross' <OH 40>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, transcript: 'Red River Valley Sugarbeet Industry Oral History Project: Interview with Jesus Sanchez, Jr.' <OH 40>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, transcript: 'Red River Valley Sugarbeet Industry Oral History Project: Interview with Douglas Sillers' <OH 40>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, transcript: 'Red River Valley Sugarbeet Industry Oral History Project: Interview with Tom Sinner' <OH 40>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, transcript: 'Red River Valley Sugarbeet Industry Oral History Project: Interview with Ed Swift' <OH 40>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, transcript: 'Red River Valley Sugarbeet Industry Oral History Project: Interview with Hugh Trowbridge' <OH 40>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, transcript: 'Red River Valley Sugarbeet Industry Oral History Project: Interview with Glenn Wiese' <OH 40>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, transcript: 'Red River Valley Sugarbeet Industry Oral History Project: Interview with Alvaro Zamora' <OH 40>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, transcript: 'Red River Valley Sugarbeet Industry Oral History Project: Interview with Leslie and Virginia Anderson and Lee Lykken' <OH 40>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, transcript: 'Red River Valley Sugarbeet Industry Oral History Project: Interview with B.E. Youngquist' <OH 40>

Creation

• interviewer: Shoptaugh, Terry L.
• interviewer: Achin, Norman
• interviewer and interviewee: Bass, Stewart
• interviewee: Allen, Merle
• interviewee: Anderson, Herbert
• interviewee: Anderson, Leslie
• interviewee: Anderson, Virginia Lykken
• interviewee: Aronson, Maurice
• interviewee: Beiswenger, Lloyd
• interviewee: Beiswenger, Ruth
• interviewee: Benedict, Patrick
• interviewee: Bernhardson, Eddie
• interviewee: Bloomquist, Harvey
• interviewee: Brekken, Wilburn
• interviewee: Canning, Richard G.
• interviewee: Castillo, Beatriz Muzquiz
• interviewee: Dexter, Alan
• interviewee: Dosland, William Buehler
• interviewee: Engel, Esther
• interviewee: Engel, Meta
• interviewee: Fiandaca, John
• interviewee: Finstad, Mary
• interviewee: Finstad, Ole
• interviewee: Forbes, Frank W.
• interviewee: Grant, Donald W.
• interviewee: Green, Johanna
• interviewee: Green, Manvel
• interviewee: Grove, Harlow
• interviewee: Grove, Telbert
• interviewee: Grover, W. V.
• interviewee: Gunderson, Emmet
• interviewee: Helmeke, Harold
• interviewee: Howe, George
• interviewee: Jensen, Alfred
• interviewee: Johnson, C. Einar
• interviewee: Kiel, Lyle
• interviewee: Koester, R. Richard
• interviewee: Krabbenhoft, Richard
• interviewee: LaHaise, Larry
• interviewee: Lykken, Lee
• interviewee: Martin, Victor
• interviewee: Ness, Donald
• interviewee: Ness, Walter
• interviewee: Nyquist, Robert
• interviewee: Peet, Ted
• interviewee: Reitmeier, Edward
• interviewee: Robertson, William
• interviewee: Ronan, Thomas A.
• interviewee: Ross, Armin
• interviewee: Ross, Gerhard
• interviewee: Ross, Jim
• interviewee: Sanchez, Jesus Jr.
• interviewee: Sillers, Douglas
• interviewee: Sinner, George A.
• interviewee: Sinner, Leo
• interviewee: Sinner, Thomas
• interviewee: Swift, Ed
• interviewee: Trowbridge, Hugh
• interviewee: Wiese, Glenn
• interviewee: Youngquist, B. E. (Bernard Edward)
• interviewee: Zamora, Alvaro

Identifiers

• Library Call Number: OH 40
• Accession Number: AV1991.13
• Accession Number: AV2000.37

Holding Type: Oral History - Project

Quantity: 1 project 1618 pages transcript

Format

• Content Category: text

Subjects

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