Forest History Oral History Project: Interview with Frank Werthner

Titles: Forest History Oral History Project: Interview with Frank Werthner (Supplied title)

Description: BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: Frank Werthner was born in 1886, near Green Bay, Wisconsin. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: Early life, logging and homesteading around Green Bay, Wisconsin; moving to Minnesota and eventually to Bigfork; logging and homesteading in Minnesota, compared to Wisconsin; water barrels and water tanks; hauling logs; hunting; first homesteaders in the Bigfork area; Indians in the Bigfork area, and Busticoggins and the Bustiecoggin Township; CCC camps; logging wages and daily schedule; logging camp layout, and living in a bunkhouse; tobacco use amongst Lumberjacks; wolves' interactions with loggers and camp; becoming a rancher, growing oats and barley.

Dates

• 05/10/1976 (Creation)

Creation

• interviewer: Esse, John
• interviewer: Rajala, William
• interviewee: Werthner, Frank

Identifiers

• Library Call Number: OH 142
• Accession Number: AV2012.1.52

Holding Type: Oral History - Interview

Project

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

Quantity: 2 hours sound cassette 46 pages transcript 1 sound disc

Format

• Content Category: sound recordings
• Content Category: text

Measurements

• 01:15:30 running time

Subjects

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