Emil Pelto interview, 1974 Oct. 4.

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Emil Pelto interview, 1974 Oct. 4.

Topics include his father's emigration from Finland; settling first in Ishpeming and later in Alston; logging, truck farming, dairy farming, and the produce trade in the Sturgeon River Valley; the Cohodas family; cabbage growing; fighting between Finns and the French; fishing and log driving in the Sturgeon River; local Communists and Socialists; hockey; and church history.

Transcript : 27 p.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6936976

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Loukinen, Michael

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Pelto, Emil, 1909-1984

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Resident of Baraga, Mich. From the description of Emil Pelto interview, 1974 Oct. 4. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 180702817 ...

Cohodas family.

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