Norla Callison, 1974-01-24, Interview #3 - MP3 Recording

Segment Synopsis: Passenger trains and engineers. Six passenger trains
a day. Whistle-stop in Bear Canyon at Bovard. Trains
vs. Airplanes. Lewiston airport. Merits of different
routes from Moscow to Lewiston. Greedy Lewiston
businessmen.

Segment Synopsis: North and South Idaho competition for University.
State of Lincoln. Drunken surveyors bear way west of
where they should have been when they surveyed north
Idaho.

Segment Synopsis: Depression; poorer than Job's turkey. 1893 Wet havest.
Mules vs. horses. Mules could walk a horse to death.
They sere even-gaited and light-footed.

Segment Synopsis: Death of the small farm. Early clothing prices,
mail-order shoes. Advent of income tax.

Segment Synopsis: Early co-ops. Most went belly-up. Problem of embezzlement
in small co-ops.

Segment Synopsis: Hermits and oddballs. Most homesteaders were bachelors.
Neighbors. Homesteaders came looking for the rainbow.
Field corn bloats up a too-eager eater.

Segment Synopsis: Literary, good times. Methodists steal the community
church. Gatherings in church and school.

Segment Synopsis: Sam Callison and J.I. Mitchum, fighting about politics.
Fourth fo July Tug-o-Wars: Potlatch vs. the world.
Balloon ascensions in Juliaetta. Fights after baseball
games. J.I. Mitchum insults Sam at a Republican rally,
and Sam teaches him a lesson.

Segment Synopsis: Political campaigning, picnics and get-togethers. Burton
L. French speaks in the schoolhouse. FDR made county
Democrat. Corruption in politics, Nixon vs. Teapot Dome.