Forest History Oral History Project: Interview with Burt Hunt

Titles: Forest History Oral History Project: Interview with Burt Hunt (Supplied title)

Description: BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: Burt Hunt was born around 1882. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: Early life; working as a cookee and odd jobs; whiskey; working in Michigan; a day's wages; teamsters wages; logging around the year 1900 in Bemidji and International Falls; lumber companies; lumber communities and camps; early Craigville, gambling and women; log driving; living in the wannigan; going out west to log; the Rajalas; caulking shoes; hook men, and sending logs up the river; types of lumber and uses.

Dates

• 08/29/1975 (Creation)

Creation

• interviewer: Esse, John
• interviewee: Hunt, Bert

Identifiers

• Library Call Number: OH 142
• Accession Number: AV2012.1.20

Holding Type: Oral History - Interview

Project

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

Quantity: 20 pages transcript

Format

• Content Category: text

Subjects

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