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Forsman speaks about her family history and life growing up on a homestead in rural Montana in the early 1900s, and how the Depression affected her family. She discusses her teaching career, moving ar…

Winfield and Alice Page speak about the effects of the Depression on their personal lives, touching on education, careers, and wages. They speculate on the politics of the 1920s and ‘30s, both locally…

Thill recalls the effects of the Depression on St. Ignatius, Montana, and on his job as rural mail carrier. His daughter, Regina, details her remembrances of the Depression as a child. Thill speaks ab…

Deschamps tells of his family's experience farming in Montana during the Depression. He also speaks about his education, Roosevelt’s social programs, and the jobs he held as a young adult to stay aflo…

Reardon discusses the effects of the Depression on the Missoula community, focusing on retail shops. She discusses her career working in retail, including her clientele and her dress shop that she ope…

Winfield and Alice Page speak about the effects of the Depression on their personal lives, touching on education, careers, and wages. They speculate on the politics of the 1920s and ‘30s, both locally…

Eunice Brown discusses growing up in the Potomac Valley in Montana. She recalls her happy childhood and her early education, which was delayed by a two-year long case of rheumatic fever. She talks abo…

Interview with Ruth A. Halland.This interview hasn't been transcribed yet.

Interview with Billie Bernice King Ridell.This interview hasn't been transcribed yet. When this interview was conducted, the interviewee requested to remain anonymous in the transcript and audio. Arch…

Sallie Maclay Brutto begins by telling her family’s history and how they came to the Bitterroot Valley during the late 1800s. She recalls her siblings and the schools she attended as a child, as well…

Cecile Carleton talks about her childhood in and around Butte, Montana, as the daughter of a Protestant Irish miner. She discusses the lack of educational opportunities for girls when she was a child…

David Maclay tells how his family came to the Bitterroot Valley in the 1880s and farmed and ranched. He describes the effects of the economic depression in 1920-1921, then decade of prosperity during…

Vincent “Vince” Simons describes moving to Montana from South Dakota by hopping a boxcar in 1931 in hopes of finding a lucrative job as a miner during the Great Depression. Simons recalls finding a jo…

Interview with Loretta Cyr Smith.This interview hasn't been transcribed yet.

Jones relates his own experiences in Missoula, Montana, during the Depression, his view generally of the effects of the Depression on Missoula, and other biographical information, such as his part in…

Topics include attending college and teaching in North Dakota during the Depression, the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) in North Dakota, and teaching in Wyoming and Montana after the war.This audio…

Kay Rosengren describes her experiences working with her husband Keith at Numa Ridge and Apgar lookouts in Glacier National Park. She tells how she and Keith came to Montana in part because he loved t…

Clark discusses her education and teaching career in Montana in the early 1900s. She speaks about the effects the depression had on her family and teachers in general.This audio has not been transcrib…

Charles Campbell gives a brief lecture on his childhood up in Bonner, Montana, during the 1920s and 1930s. He explains that Bonner was an Anaconda Copper Mining Company [ACM] town, with a company stor…

Lee Christensen discusses his career as a hay derrick—also known as beaver slides or stackers—builder, which started in the 1920s when he apprenticed with another builder before striking out on his ow…