Oral history interview with Bruce Elliott, 1978 July 25.

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Oral history interview with Bruce Elliott, 1978 July 25.

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Bruce Elliott discusses family history and the acquisition of the farm through homesteading; moving the original farmhouse three miles north of its original location; livestock and crops; economic aspects of raising and marketing cattle and grain; cattle diseases and vaccinations; soil conservation and erosion; well digging; land inheritance; childhood farm chores; and what it feels like to ride large farm equipment and tractors.

Transcript: 15 leavesSound recording: 1 reel to reel tape

Iowa State Historical Society

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Iowa State Historical Society

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Earthwatch-SHSI Oral History Project.

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"Folklife in Rural Iowa" was an oral history project conducted in the summer of 1978 and funded by Earthwatch, a national organization encouraging public participation in field research. Interviewers worked in 2 teams under the direction of field director Rebecca Conard and assistant field director Michael Mendelson. Peter Harstad, director of the State Historical Society of Iowa, served as the project's principal investigator. From the description of Oral history interviews of the E...

Conard, Rebecca

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Elliott, Bruce , b. 1935,

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Whitman, Sylvia, 1961-

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