Interviewer
Jane Reed Benson
Files
Description
Clyde Fickes discusses founding the Nine Mile Remount Depot Station, including the difficulties he faced getting the project accepted, fires in the area, and undependable hiring stock. He describes the Perma Ranch used for wintering stock, hiring Boyd Thompson as a saddle horse breeder, the transition from renting trucks to purchasing, and early recruits who were ranchers and loggers, not foresters. Fickes also discusses the invention of the lookout house on the property.
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Document Type
Oral History
Subjects
Ninemile Remount Depot (Mont.); Perma Ranch; Boyd Thompson; Ranching; Horse breeding; Logging; Lookout house; Firefighting
Original Date
5-3-1977
Time Period
Twentieth century
Geographic Coverage
Montana
Language
eng
Original Collection
Ninemile Remount Depot Oral History Project, OH 086, 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 086-003
Media Type
Sound; Text
Original Format
1 sound cassette (01:00:00 min.) analog + 1 transcript (26 p.: 28 cm.)
Digital Format
audio/mp3; application/pdf
Run Time
01:01:24 minutes
Local Filename
OH_086_003.mp3; OH_086_003.pdf
Citation
Fickes, Clyde, "Clyde Fickes Interview, May 3, 1977" (1977). Ninemile Remount Depot Oral History Project. 2.
https://scholarworks.umt.edu/ninemileremountdepot/2