Interviewer
Edd Nentwig
Files
Description
Joe Johnson reminisces about his early life working on a farm in Ohio, as a water boy for a company in Pennsylvania, a short stint in the U.S. Navy, and working in the subway tunnels in New York. He goes on to describe his first experience in Montana, in St. Xavier on the Crow Reservation, where he began trapping beaver and mink. He also talks about his job as a bounty hunter in Arizona hunting coyotes, bobcats, and mountain lions. Johnson discusses meeting “real mountain men” like Earl Durand, an outlaw who robbed a bank in Cowley, Wyoming. He describes the trapping methods he used in his later life for rats, beaver, foxes, raccoons, and other animals.
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Document Type
Oral History
Subjects
Trapping, Montana; Fur trappers, Montana; Fur trapping methods; St. Xavier, Montana; Bounty hunters; Earl Durand (1913-1939)
Original Date
7-17-1981
Time Period
Twentieth century
Geographic Coverage
Montana
Language
eng
Original Collection
Fur Trappers Oral History Project, OH 099, 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 099-017
Media Type
Sound; Text
Original Format
1 sound cassette (01:00:00 min.) analog + 1 transcript (28 p.: 28 cm.)
Digital Format
audio/mp3; application/pdf
Run Time
00:55:08 minutes
Local Filename
OH_099_017.mp3; OH_099_017.pdf
Citation
Johnson, Joe, "Joe Johnson Interview, July 17, 1981" (1981). Fur Trappers Oral History Project. 13.
https://scholarworks.umt.edu/montanafurtrappers/13