Itasca State Park Oral History Project: Interview with Reuben Law

Titles: Itasca State Park Oral History Project: Interview with Reuben Law (Supplied title)

Description: BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: Reuben Law was born in Minnesota. He attended college at the University of Minnesota and received a degree in civil engineering. He was a registered landscape architect in Minnesota. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: The main topic was his experiences as Deputy Director of the Southern District. Personal background; involvement in CCC, Parks, and Highway Department; the chain of command at the Central Design Office; working under Harold Lathrop prior to the parks; district supervisor; character of state parks as opposed to city parks; analysis of Lathrop as a director; Judge Hella; educational background and marriage; change from forestry to parks; TRA camps; politics; Hugo Zaiser; VCC and Forest Inn; visiting Elk Lake group camp; Itasca Park in relation to others; pageants; layout of the park headquarters area; animals in the park; "sinews of the soil"; camping at Bear Paw; development of the campgrounds; park development from 1922 to the present; critical eye on parks; life after parks; jurisdiction during park involvement; Joseph R. Brown; James M. Bowler and camp release; Ignatius Donnelly house; Forestville Store; German POW camps; Richard Door; Grover Conzet; his nickname "Bud".

Dates

• 06/23/1993 (Creation)

Creation

• interviewee: Law, Reuben
• interviewer: Rieger, Amy K.

Identifiers

• Library Call Number: OH 102
• Accession Number: AV2003.42.13

Holding Type: Oral History - Interview

Project

• Oral History - Project, MHS Collection, project: 'Itasca State Park Oral History Project' <OH 102>

Quantity: 2 hours sound cassette 40 pages transcript

Format

• Content Category: sound recordings
• Content Category: text

Measurements

• 60 minutes length

Subjects

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