Forest History Oral History Project: Interview with James Knight

Titles: Forest History Oral History Project: Interview with James Knight (Supplied title)

Description: BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: Jim Knight was born in Red Lake Falls, Minnesota in 1893. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: Early life; homesteading; early logging in the area; sourdough Joe; splash dam; stories about injuries while logging; teamsters and their horses; blacksmithing and wages; rut cutter; Hungry Mike; various other logging characters; hospital tickets; Busti Coggins; burial mounds; violence between Indians and white men over disturbing burial grounds; home life; children.

Dates

• 09/22/1975 (Creation)

Creation

• interviewer: Esse, John
• interviewee: Knight, James

Identifiers

• Library Call Number: OH 142
• Accession Number: AV2012.1.26

Holding Type: Oral History - Interview

Project

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

Quantity: 3 hours sound cassette 33 pages transcript 1 sound disc

Format

• Content Category: sound recordings
• Content Category: text

Measurements

• 03:03:47 running time

Subjects

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