Forest History Oral History Project: Interview with Buzz Ryan

Titles: Forest History Oral History Project: Interview with Buzz Ryan (Supplied title)

Description: BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: Buzz Ryan was born in Wilmar, Minnesota in 1900. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: Buzz nickname; early life; moving north when his father took a job at the Cass Lake saw mill; living in the Bemidji area; lumber companies and railroad companies; getting into the Forestry Department; burning slashings; forest fires; camp clerks their role and importance in logging camps; buildings in a logging camp; camp equipment; descriptions of various camp jobs: bull cook, cookee, teamsters, walking boss, blacksmith; camp food; bedbugs; sky pilots; houses of prostitution in the towns around Bigfork; sexually transmitted diseases in camps and their remedies; Buzz's book "Early Loggers of Minnesota"; logging roads; log drives; scaling logs; bark marks on the logs from the separate logging companies.

Dates

• 03/23/1976 (Creation)

Creation

• interviewer: Esse, John
• interviewee: Ryan, James C.

Identifiers

• Library Call Number: OH 142
• Accession Number: AV2012.1.40

Holding Type: Oral History - Interview

Project

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

Quantity: 4 hours sound cassette 86 pages transcript 1 sound disc

Format

• Content Category: sound recordings
• Content Category: text

Measurements

• 03:37:15 running time

Subjects

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