Air Museum of Minnesota Oral History Project: Interview with Francis W. Johnson

Titles: Air Museum of Minnesota Oral History Project: Interview with Francis W. Johnson (Supplied title)

Description: BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: Francis W. Johnson joined the Minnesota Department of Conservation in 1929. He served in the Tower area until 1934 and then transferred to Cook and later to Virginia in 1949. He became the state's Chief Game Warden in 1953. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: A game warden's duties. The early use of airplanes by lawbreakers in the 1920s and 1930s. Anecdotes about early game law violators. The use of airplanes to apprehend violators. An anecdote about beaver trappers. Funding the purchase of airplanes. Current status of airplanes and the Department of Conservation. Details on deer shining and capturing deer shiners. Qualifications of a game warden. The future of airplanes in game warden work.

Dates

• 08/10/1965 (Creation)

Creation

• interviewee: Johnson, Francis W.
• interviewer: Holey, Anne M.

Identifiers

• Library Call Number: OH 101
• Accession Number: AV1992.88.12

Holding Type: Oral History - Interview

Project

• Oral History - Project, MHS Collection, project: 'Air Museum of Minnesota Oral History Project' <OH 101>

Quantity: 1 hour sound cassette 27 pages transcript

Format

• Content Category: sound recordings
• Content Category: text

Measurements

• 60 minutes length

Subjects

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