Record Details
Cook, James
Mountain Scholar
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Cook, James James S. Cook oral history interview |
| Creator | Cook, James S. |
| Contributor | Colorado Association of Soil Conservation Districts Briggs, Sara-Ann |
| Subject | Cook, James S. -- Interviews Oral history -- Colorado Soil conservation -- Colorado Soil conservation districts -- Colorado United States. Soil Conservation Service Farming -- Colorado Sugar beet Irrigation -- Colorado |
| Description | James Cook interviewed by Sara-Ann Briggs James Cook, secretary-treasurer of the Timpas Soil Conservation District, now the West Otero Timpas Conservation District, discusses his involvement in the soil conservation movement in Colorado. Cook's interview covers his family's sugar beet farm, the 1930s Great Depression, irrigation and no-till farming, the 1921 Arkansas River flood, and Cook's participation in the Timpas Soil Conservation District from 1942 to 1984. Cook mentions several soil conservation state and local leaders,... Transcript -- Tape 1, Side A -- Tape 1, Side B |
| Date | 1984-05-19 2017-08-14T22:37:52Z 2017-08-14T22:37:52Z |
| Type | Audio |
| Identifier | https://hdl.handle.net/10217/183392 |
| Language | English eng |
| Relation | wwdl Cook, James. 1984 Records of the Colorado Association of Soil Conservation Districts. Series 2: Business and financial records. Finding aid: https://lib2.colostate.edu/archives/findingaids/water/wcsc.html |
| Format | Tape 1, Side A: 30 minutes, 44 seconds Tape 1, Side B: 18 minutes, 59 seconds application/pdf audio/mpeg audio/mpeg |
| Coverage | Manzanola (Colo.) Otero County (Colo.) Rocky Ford (Colo.) Arkansas River 1902-1984 |
| Publisher | Colorado State University. Libraries |
| Source | Original: 1 audiocassette and transcript. 18 p. Administrative and draft material not scanned. |
