Interviewer
Suzanne M. Vernon
Files
Description
Reuben Kauffman recalls moving from southern Idaho to the Swan Valley area where he worked in a sawmill during the 1940s. He talks about the other homestead families of the area and the lack of jobs at the time. Kauffman describes the layout of his old homestead and the petition he started to clear new roads into the homestead and other logging access areas in the Seeley-Swan Valley. He discusses the challenges of building his own home, raising a family, working to provide for them, and raising cattle in an area with many predators. Kauffman tells how his parents moved from the Midwest in 1911 to homestead in Montana.
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Document Type
Oral History
Subjects
Logging, Montana; Homesteading, Montana; Sawmills, Montana; Swan Valley, Montana; Log cabins; Logging access
Original Date
1-15-1999
Time Period
Twentieth century
Geographic Coverage
Montana
Language
eng
Original Collection
Upper Swan Valley Oral History Project, OH 422, 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 422-006, 007
Media Type
Sound; Text
Original Format
2 sound cassettes (02:00:00 min.) analog + 1 transcript (22 p.: 28 cm.)
Digital Format
audio/mp3; application/pdf
Run Time
01:48:47 minutes
Local Filename
OH_422_006_007.mp3; OH_422_006_007.pdf
Citation
Kauffman, Reuben and Kauffman, Sadie, "Reuben Kauffman and Sadie Kauffman Interview, January 15, 1999" (1999). Upper Swan Valley Oral History Project. 48.
https://scholarworks.umt.edu/upperswanvalley_oralhistory/48