Interviewer
May Vallance
Files
Description
Emma Freeze talks about her childhood experiences and memories at the Roll School and in the Bitterroot Valley during the early 1900s. She talks about her first teacher as well as specific classmates. Freeze recalls riding in a horse-drawn wagon driven by her father to school and how they kept warm by heating charcoal briquettes and putting them near their feet. She also recalls the sawmill her father used to operate up Fred Burr Creek.
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Document Type
Oral History
Subjects
Bitterroot Valley, Montana; Victor, Montana; Roll School; Education, Montana; Schoolhouses, rural; Ravalli County, Montana; One-room schoolhouses; Sawmills; Fred Burr Creek
Original Date
1978
Time Period
Twentieth century
Geographic Coverage
Montana
Language
eng
Original Collection
Bitterroot Historical Society Oral History Project, OH 120, Archives and Special Collections, Mansfield Library, University of Montana-Missoula
Digital Publisher
University of Montana--Missoula. Mansfield Library
Rights
Copyright to this collection is held by the interview participants and by the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library, University of Montana-Missoula. Permission may be required for use. For further information please contact Archives and Special Collections: (406) 243-2053 / library.archives@umontana.edu
Oral History Number
OH 120-011e
Media Type
Sound; Text
Original Format
1 sound cassette (60 min.) analog + 1 transcript (2 p.: 28 cm.)
Digital Format
audio/mp3; application/pdf
Run Time
00:04:50 minutes
Local Filename
OH_120_011_e.mp3; OH_120_011_e.pdf
Citation
Freeze, Emma, "Emma Van Blaricom Freeze Interview, circa 1978" (1978). Bitterroot Historical Society Oral History Project. 32.
https://scholarworks.umt.edu/bitterrootvalley_oralhistory/32