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SUMMARY: Program elements (actualities, etc.) for a CBC Radio documentary, written by Peter Haworth, re-tracing the travels of explorer David Thompson.;

CALL NUMBER: T0883:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-11-02 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Alexander Ritchie describes how he came from Calgary in 1896; drove a stage between Fort Steele and Windermere for a few months; went back to Calgary, but returned to Windermere in 1898; worked on ranches and mined until 1910; was part owner of CVI [Columbia Valley Irrigated Fruit Lands, Limited] with [R.R.] Bruce for five years; broke up with Bruce and eventually owned the whole company and site; CPR board of directors were the driving force behind CVI; KCRR [Kootenay Central Railway] reached Athalmer in 1912; the Paradise Mine and some anecdotes. TRACK 2: Mr. Ritchie continue;s by discussing Fort Steele as a "wide open town" in the 1890s and the stage run from Fort Steele to Windermere. He then discusses democrats (i.e., type of wagon).

CALL NUMBER: T0883:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-11-02 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Ritchie continues his description of the Fort Steele to Windermere stage run; more anecdotes; Windermere as the earliest settlement in the area; Mr. Ritchie's several trips across the Rockies and taking horses east to sell in Alberta. TRACK 2: Mr. Ritchie describes an incident at Banff with Indians and selling horses as far north as Grande Prairie. Then Mrs. Lizzie Ritchie describes how she came from London to Winnipeg in 1904; her first husband was Charles Burgess, who was bookkeeper for a lumber company; Waldo as the first ghost town; and some anecdotes about the lumber industry.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1966-02-02 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Alfie H. Kershaw describes various old timers at Fort Steele. He was born in Fort Steele while the town was in decline; only sawmills and prospecting were keeping it alive; his father, Henry Kershaw, was the Fort Steele postmaster; the Lum family; anecdotes about old timers Dave Griffiths; Red McLeod and Moses McCoy. [TRACK 2: blank.]

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-11-01 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Alfred James Balment describes how he came west from Winnipeg in 1898; built railway bridges in Alberta and the West Kootenays; a description of bridge building; he became a conductor in ;1902 or 1903; describes "boomers"; was the conductor on Crowsnest line the day of the Fernie fire; took several loads of Fernie residents; was elected alderman in Cranbrook on the 'wet' ticket in 1914; Tommy Roberts was the mayor; dispute over replacement of local police by Provincial Police. [TRACK 2: blank.]

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-11-11 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Alice Sinclair recalls her family's first days in the East Kootenays; came with her family from St. Louis to Jaffray in 1906; did not start school at Jaffray until she was eight years old; East Indians at the lumber mill; Spokane Flyer; moved to Wardner in 1910; to Creston in 1912; then to Grasmere in 1923; related to Michael Phillips; she was the first homesteader in the Kootenays. [TRACK 2: blank.]

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-11-01 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Beryl Lum discusses the pioneer's life in a cabin at Fort Steele; Mrs. Lum came from England to Victoria then on to Lake Louise; to Fort Steele where she still lives in the cabin which; was once the home of Michael Phillips; the Galbraith brothers; husband, George Lum, was a Chinese packer and his wife [?] was a Hope Indian; used to trade commodities for horses with Stoney Indians; Lum was lured west by the world of Zane Grey; after the 1880s gold rush, Fort Steele was a lumbering district; anecdotes. TRACK 2: Game was everywhere in the old days and bands of forty to fifty horses were not uncommon; Mrs. Lum had seven children; incidents with her husband's horses; sleigh riding at minus thirty degrees; hardships of freezing weather; her children had a strict upbringing.

SUMMARY: "A Journey of Two Summer Moons" is about the first crossing of the Rockies by explorer David Thompson in 1807, and a trip made by Imbert Orchard and Peter Haworth in 1972, re-tracing Thompson's route;. The program combines excerpts from Thompson's journal with recordings made on the 1972 journey.;

CALL NUMBER: T1028:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1961-07-08 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Cliff Harrison describes how he came to Ootsa Lake, and the good reputation of the land for agriculture. He discusses his father, who was a miner in the Kootenays and his memories of the; East Kootenays; the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway in 1914, his experience working in a Hudson's Bay Company store in Kamloops; work for mining companies; reminiscences of Ootsa Lake in 1912, including ;that there was no doctor; how people had to help each other. He describes a few local characters and early settlers: Harry Morgan, Mike Touhy, Shorty Matheson, Cataline (Jean Caux), Barney Mulvaney, a;nd Skin Tyee, who was also known as Charlie Clutesi. TRACK 2: Mr. Harrison continues with more on local characters Skin Tyee and Florence Hinton. Mr. Harrison then recalls his experiences with Native Indians, and the introduction of aviation to the Ootsa Valley.

CALL NUMBER: T1028:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1966-05-05 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Cliff Harrison recalls how Indians came to have their legends via observations with no evidence, and the Indian legend of "Devil Man"; a story of a man dying of scurvy; and discusses trappin;g and selling fur in Kimsquit Valley. TRACK 2: Mr. Harrison recalls a bear story; anecdotes about what he did for amusement; and traveling through the Interior, including how he traveled.;

CALL NUMBER: T1028:0003 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1961-07-08 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Harrison recalls trapping beginning in 1906, including how trappers came to the area; fighting in World War I and coming back to the wilderness in 1919; anecdotes about selling furs in a; fluctuating market; a trapping convention and basket social; Mr. Harrison's recollections of other trappers, including John Mikkelson, Jack and Arthur Shelford, Harry Morgan (who was the first white man in the area), Skin Tyee and Jimmy Morgan. TRACK 2: Mr. Harrison continues discussing trappers such as Jimmy Morgan. He tells a story about mixing flying with trapping, and starting a trend for other trappers learning to fly; miscellaneous events connected to trapping, including almost freezing to death; and impressions and anecdotes about wolverines.

CALL NUMBER: T1028:0004 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1961-07-08 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Harrison recalls growing up in the East Kootenay, including what life was like before the railroad; a detailed description of Captain Armstrong, a steamboat captain who navigated the Columbia River; the significance and details on the running of steamboats at that time; logging and wages. Harrison describes his arrival in BC in 1904, including his impressions. Harrison recalls various characters (and elaborates on what life was like at that time): Rufus Kimpton, Jim Brewer and a few more. TRACK 2: Mr. Harrison continues with more characters and events: the opening of the Paradise Mine; real estate promoter Randolph Bruce; "Bugroom"; Mr. and Mrs. Joe Lake; Frank Stoddard, who had a hotel; several stories about blacksmith Sinc Craig,including one where he broke his leg falling into a grave at a funeral; Malcolm Cameron, the first policeman in the area, and how early pioneers were very law abiding, E.J. Scoville, who was the first magistrate and was also a champion speed; skater based out of Wilmer, and Jim McKay, the cattle baron at Athalmer.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-11-04 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Colin M. Sinclair recalls his family's first days in the East Kootenays; born in Tobacco Plains, Montana and moved to BC in 1900; his grandfather, James Sinclair, was shot during an India;n uprising in 1856; there was a change from open forest to thick undergrowth between trees in the Kootenays between 1900 to 1960 because of logging operations; change in the ambitions and activities o;f the Indians; relations between whites and Indians in the area were always good; the Spokane Flyer was a CPR train; Michael Phillips; Elko was a wild town at the turn of the century; first road at Fort Steele; no farming east of Grasmere. [TRACK 2: blank.]

CALL NUMBER: T0989:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], [197-] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Dick Person begins by describing where he was born in Duluth to Swedish parents; how he got into the outdoor life, spending time as a child on lakes and in parks; canoe trips and outdoor; experiences as a child; his studies in zoology and geology; first exposure to western Canada on a climbing trip, including his impressions of the attitudes of Canadians; his views about the USA. Various animals he has encountered in the wilderness. Backpacking and mountaineering, including his work making equipment for these uses. TRACK 2: Mr. Person discusses why he lives in the mountains, including what led him to give up on the city; experiences living in the Kootenays; how he cannot feel at home in a house, and now lives in a teepee full-time; how he and his family live off the land and; hunt. He then describes a trip through the mountains to the Kootenays, and a description of a typical trip in the winter.;

CALL NUMBER: T0989:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], [197-] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Person discusses more on this trip, cross country skiing, why he chooses to live in the mountains; the kinds of information he is out to gather on winter trips; what parks need; and what he thinks need to be included in touring films. [TRACK 2: blank.]

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-11-02 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Florence Desrosiers describes early days near the border in the East Kootenays; she came from Medicine Hat to Roosville in 1900; she was thirteen; it was a tremendous change going to a one room school; married in 1908; some wagon drivers used to smuggle Chinese people across the US border for 300 dollars a person; during WWI, Germans being held in detention camps used to escape into neutral US; her father Fred Koo used to run a store; a stopping house and a post office at Roosville; Indians would cross the border to get liquor; Indians would trade buckskin clothing at the store; ;her husband Joseph Desrosiers came from Quebec before the railroad. [TRACK 2: blank.]

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): The elephants of eastern B.C. PERIOD COVERED: 1926-1926 SUMMARY: In an interview with Bjorn Bjornson, Frank Guimont tells the story behind the famous message, sent out in 1926 to CPR trains in eastern B.C., to "watch for elephants on the tracks".

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-07-01 SUMMARY: TRACK 1 & 2: Mr. Frank Paul describes and discusses his family from the along the US-Canadian border; they ended up settling in the Windermere area in the East Kootenays; he offers family and personal stories; living in south central and eastern BC. Mr. Paul is of Kootenay-Shuswap Indian background.

SUMMARY: "Headwaters" is number 2 in the series. It tells the story of the development of the East Kootenay country from the days of the first explorers. Gold miners at Wildhorse and trouble between them and the Indians. The sad story of the British fruit farmers. Early days at Fort Steele. Voices heard include: Tracie Willams, Shelagh Dehart, Mrs. H. Williams, Madeline Turnor, Effie Turnor, Beryl Lum, Jimmy White, Vaughn Kimpton, Cliff Harrison, and Alex Ritchie.

CALL NUMBER: T0934:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-09-08 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Harry Mawdsley talks about life in the Kootenay Lake region prior to 1900. He describes his family background and how he came to Crawford Bay in 1895. He discusses steamers; Crawford Bay in 1895; packing from Crawford Bay; trails; more about packing and adventures while packing; Silver Hill Mine; ore shipped to Nelson; Pilot Bay and Marysville smelters; lead and zinc separation; Pilot Bay and Crawford Bay settlement, and Gray Creek. TRACK 2: He continues with more on Silver Hill Mine and Rainville; parties; bringing in the first plough to Crawford Bay; his father-in-law, Alfred McClellan, at Pilot Bay; the sinking of the "Ainsworth"; races between the CPR and GN boats; Jean Montreuil; Dave Clarke; Morice; the railroad; the "Kuskanook"; more about the railroad; and grizzly hunting near Crawford Bay.

CALL NUMBER: T0934:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-09-08 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Mawdsley describes an incident while packing on St. Mary's trail; Charlie Sherwin; Ainsworth; practical jokes; hotels; mining; Nelson; Kaslo; Slocan; Fort Steele; St. Eugene Mission; more; about Fort Steele; CPR boats in the East Kootenays. [TRACK 2: blank.]

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-09-12 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Hilton Young came from Scarborough, Ontario, to Fernie. He discusses English and other European immigrants. Then he discusses lumbering; anecdotes about loggers and logging camps and t;he loggers in Cranbrook. TRACK 2: Mr. Young continues with more anecdotes about logging camps and loggers before discussing bank houses; the camp cook; logging procedures and the Fernie fire.

CALL NUMBER: T0302:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-11-06 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. James F. (Jimmy) White recalls his arrival in Golden in 1889; his first impressions; a trip to Fort Steele, including a description of the police and the lifestyle; gold mining; Wildhorse Indians; Michael Phillips; Robert Galbraith; ships; Captain Armstrong; prospecting; gold mining; hydraulic mining; and the decline of Fort Steele. TRACK 2: Mr. White continues with more on hydraulic gold mining; the CPR in Cranbrook and Fort Steele; mines -- Sullivan, North Star, Stemwinder and Moyie; Father Coccola; doctors; possible murders in Fort Steele; the cemetery; horse racing and riding; practical jokes.

CALL NUMBER: T0302:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-11-06 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. White talks about interesting characters, including an incident involving the naming of Tata Creek; other incidents; the Yukon; mining; dancing girls; hunting wild mountain goats and sheep; Indians; Old Kaplo; working in the mountains; men whom Mr. White guided in the mountains; Von Hindenburg's trip. TRACK 2: More about Von Hindenburg's trip; incidents involving bears; the Rockies; and the Selkirks; ministers in Fort Steele; women; families; the red light district incident; the Lum family; English settlers; remittance men; Cranbrook; Golden; gambling; maintenance of law and order in Fort Steele.

CALL NUMBER: T0302:0003 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-11-06 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. White describes some of the pioneers in the Kootenay such as the Lum family; Tom Cochrane and Lady Adelaide. Then he continues discussing Englishmen whom he guided; settlers; a murderer; named Bulldog Kelly; a grizzly bear incident; Buffalo Bill; more anecdotes involving a runaway girl; the police; More's suicide; Old Ben Pugh attempting to get into jail. TRACK 2: More about Ben Pugh; drinking; Mr. White's arrival in BC; packing with Pugh; reasons why he came to BC; an Indian uprising in Fort Steele in 1886; Michael Phillips; the Mounties; Colonel Steele and the Boer War; William Reginald Wyndham; various anecdotes; Mr. White's English and American clients.

CALL NUMBER: T0302:0004 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-11-06 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. White tells a story about the buying and selling of hay; interesting characters such as Billy Hop; claim jumping; more interesting characters such as Jerry Sullivan; an anecdote about a priest drinking; other characters; and one last anecdote about tall stories. [TRACK 2: blank.]

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-09-12 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. John Bird describes how he came to England to St. John's in 1910, and went to work at a farm in Manitoba for ten to fifteen dollars a month. He describes the wages he earned in Winnipeg. Eventually he was promoted to office work for 22 cents an hour. He transferred to Cranbrook on November 4, 1910 as a store keeper. He describes Cranbrook as a "wild and woolly" place which was booming due to its lumber mills. He describes Cranbrook and its growth in 1919 to the form which it resembles at the time of the interview. Mr. Bird describes his experience after enlisting for service; in World War I. He describes the "Empress of Asia scheme" to found Camp Lister, a soldier settlement project. He tells the history of Camp Lister. [TRACK 2: blank.]

CALL NUMBER: T0936:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-03-10 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. John M. "Jake" Turnbull remembers the Kootenay mining region from 1897 to 1906. He describes how he came to the Kootenays in 1897; his first impressions of the mountains; working at Lanark Mine near Revelstoke; more about Lanark Mine; the "Mucker Gang" and "Happy Charlie"; the close of the Lanark Mine; Sandon in 1897; the journey to Fort Steele and the North Star Mine; miners returning from Fort Steele after an annual spring vacation; Sir Donald "Dan" Mann; Fort Steele in 1897; Cranbrook in 1898; North Star Mine; scenery; shipping ore; a trick played on a provincial meteorologist; St. Eugene mine at Moyie; a job at Nickel Plate mine at Rossland; Rossland in 1898; and meeting Father Pat. TRACK 2: Mr. Turnbull continues with his story about meeting Father Pat; Rossland and t;he spirit of the 1890s; moving to California; returning to Rossland in 1901 as chief engineer; the importance of a superintendent; the Rossland mining strike of 1901; work in 1902 as a consulting engi;neer developing coal resources; the completion of the railroad; Rossland music halls; Jack Kirkup; the Trail smelter; and sulphur as a nuisance in 1906.

CALL NUMBER: T0936:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-03-10 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Turnbull continues to talk about the Kootenay mining region; Walter H. Aldridge, who was the general manager of Canadian Smelting Works; Aldridge and the CPR negotiated with Augustus Heinze for the Trail smelter; Aldridge negotiated an arrangement between the CPR and the Great Northern railways; Hall Mines and the smelter closes; Selwyn G. Blaylock was the manager at St. Eugene mine; ;the background of the takeover; "square setting" is explained; more about Aldridge; a fire at the assay office in Trail in 1902; F.W. "Bill" Guernsey; Peter Verigin; a practical joke; E.P. Matheson an;d coal supplies. [TRACK 2: blank.]

The sub-series consists of oral history interviews recorded in the East Kootenay and Upper Columbia regions, mainly dealing with the history of those regions in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The history of many communities in the region are discussed, with particular emphasis on Fernie, Fort Steele, Golden, Invermere, Wilmer and Windermere.

The sub-series consists of oral history interviews recorded in the Kootenay Lake region and mainly dealing with the history of that region from the 1830s to the 1960s, as well as the history of some communities in the Arrow Lakes and East Kootenay regions.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-11-02 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Leonard Flesburg came to Wardner in 1911 from Melford, Saskatchewan, on doctor's orders, to help his rheumatism. He had worked building railroads and logging in Saskatchewan and Wisconsin before coming to BC. He worked at the Wardner sawmill for thirty years. He discusses the mill and how it produced 150;000 feet in a ten hour shift, but how the company never made a lot of money. He discusses Jim Wardener, a gambler; and the grading of lumber; falling productivity and its consequences; and finally he recites a poem about duck hunting. [TRACK 2: blank.]

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-11-05 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Lillian Ban Quan discusses her father, who was Cantonese, and how he ran a store at Rock Creek. Her mother was a Chilliwack Indian. Her mother married Chu Ban Quan at Rock Creek in 1907.; She describes Wildhorse, St. Eugene Mission and the dramatic method of mining used at Wildhorse. Then she discusses her marriage at sixteen to a forty-five year old man. [TRACK 2: blank.]

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-11-03 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Lillian Green discusses her husband, Dr. Frank Green, who worked on Crowsnest Pass; the typhoid outbreak in Cranbrook; performing medical services for several lumber companies. Mrs. Green's father was an unsuccessful partner in a private bank. Mrs. Green's father, Otis Staples, built a lumber mill near Cranbrook; she married in 1905. She describes Cranbrook's first hospital in 1904. TRACK 2: Green continues by discussing Sullivan Mine operating before it was sold; why the town always turned out for theatrical and musical companies; the Cranbrook to Vancouver route, which required switching boats and trains seven times; the mines keeping the businesses in Cranbrook alive; and Staples Mill going out of business after WWI.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-11-05 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Miss Nancy Miles offers a general outline of the history of early Cranbrook and Kimberley: buffalo hunting provided complete subsistence for Kootenay Indians; Hyde Baker was the founder of Cranbrook; surveyed the site in 1897; CPR got there in 1898; Cranbrook is located on Joseph's Prairie; custom station was Cranbrook's first building in 1865; Kimberley was always handicapped by being a company town; first settler for North Star Mine was at Marysville; one at Sullivan's Mine could not be economically processed until the invention of floatation process and construction in 1925 to 1926; the union came to Kimberly in 1937 or 1938. [TRACK 2: blank.]

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-11-09 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Neil Cameron discusses trappers and prospectors in the Fort Steele area; came from Scotland with his family at the age of fifteen; worked for lumber companies and then surveyed; residents; of Fort Steele were; "a very fine class of people"; Wild Horse River was still producing at the turn of the century; Joe Walsh was the Fort Steele constable; Cameron became the game warden for Cranbrook district in 1928; traits of the old trappers. [TRACK 2: blank.]

CALL NUMBER: T0890:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1962-12-14 SUMMARY: TRACK 1 & 2: Mr. Robert Alstead describes twenty years in the mines at Coal Creek; he outlines the history of the mine and how the coal fields opened up Crowsnest Pass in 1898; Coal Creek mines were very gaseous; one east is the most gaseous mines in the world; a huge fan operated all the time to keep air conditioned; small earthquakes underground are referred to as 'bumps'; Coal Creek is the most; dangerous mine in Canada; Fernie was more prosperous in the early days; there were large blowouts in 1902 and 1917; Fernie mines were first run by the CPR then taken over by James J. Hill's Great Nor;thern; the output is commercial steam coal, lignite. Because of gasoline and oil, coal must be regarded as a raw product; its derivatives are more important now; improvements in mining equipment and methods; as many as one hundred and seventy five horses were used in the mine in the early days.; CALL NUMBER: T0890:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1962-12-14 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Alstead continues by describing how he came from England in 1903; the boat lost a propeller and drifted for three weeks; his father thought they were drowned and so he sold their house an;d furniture; father was crippled in the mine and Robert started in the mine when he was ten; his father signed a paper saying he was fourteen; youngest miner in Canada; he worked in the mines for twenty-seven years; he got fired for trying to organize the KKK in 1929; he went to Merritt then to Princeton; describes his first day at the mines; his many different jobs at the mine; he educated himself to get mine manager's certificate; a description of Fernie fire of 1908. [TRACK 2: blank.]

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-11-03 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Robert Winstanley describes the Michel Mine through the eyes of the local magistrate; came to Michel from Staffordshire in 1912; Michel established in 1898 when Crowsnest railroad came through; many miners earned money and bought farms; Mr. Winstanley was the timekeeper at the mine, and later was in charge of the office; at first he had difficulty understanding the many other English; dialects he encountered at Michel; many different ethnic groups; Italians were the largest; little opportunities for young people at Michel; mining going downhill since the twenties; Michel considered a safe mine. TRACK 2: Local labour relations were always good; big strikes in 1911 and 1919; it is Michel's coal production and the market for it in Trail which has enabled Michel to survive; Mr. Winstanley was the magistrate for thirty years; less camaraderie among miners now.

RECORDED: [location unknown], [196-] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: This tape captures the sounds of a stagecoach at Fort Steele. An unidentified speaker describes the stagecoach ride and scenes around Fort Steele. [TRACK 2: blank.]

CALL NUMBER: T0889:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-11-04 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Tom Gorrie recalls coal mining hazards and the Fernie fire: came from Dumfermline in June 1902; worked in various coal mining towns around Fernie from 1903 to 1907; in 1907, bought Coal Creek Dairy; in 1909, did assessing for CPR, their cook quit; he was made the new cook and has been doing it ever since; description of different gasses and explosions in coal mines; the Chinese at Michel; the loop. TRACK 2: Mr. Gorrie describes the system by which each miner had his backhand abolished in 1905 [?]; the 1903 strike at Morrissey, and how the workers ended up going back to work for; less wages than they were making before the strike; the magistrate read the riot act at the strike; a detailed description of the 1908 fire; becoming a cook at Elk Valley; various old timers and boot;legging.;

CALL NUMBER: T0889:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-11-04 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Gorrie continues with more on bootlegging; a twenty dollar case of whiskey could bring one hundred dollars at the border; one hundred and fifty dollars further south; an anecdote about a ;close call with a Montana Sheriff on his last whisky run; Fred Roo, who ran the store at Roosville and Elko; how Indians today are not "the same class" as Indians before; an anecdote about when he had; a bottle of whisky stolen from him in a reserve and he was fined forty dollars for carrying liquor through a reserve. [TRACK 2: blank.]