Forest History Oral History Project: Interview with Oly Evenson

Titles: Forest History Oral History Project: Interview with Oly Evenson (Supplied title)

Description: BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: Oly Evenson was born in 1882 in Norway and came to Minneapolis in 1905 when he was 23. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: Coming to the United States; Washkish camp; working as a craftsman; Bigfork around 1907; homesteading; the Rajalas; churches in Bigfork; hunting and fishing; ethnicities around Bigfork; family.

Dates

• 1975 (Creation)

Creation

• interviewer: Esse, John
• interviewee: Evenson, Oly

Identifiers

• Library Call Number: OH 142
• Accession Number: AV2012.1.10

Holding Type: Oral History - Interview

Project

• Oral History - Project, MHS Collection, project: 'Forest History Oral History Project' <OH 142>

Quantity: 1 hour sound cassette 11 pages transcript 1 sound disc

Format

• Content Category: sound recordings
• Content Category: text

Measurements

• 00:31:59 running time

Subjects

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