DARE Interview : Pocatello, Idaho; Primary Informant ID006

Fieldworker

Miller, Phillip J.

Date

• 1967

Publisher

Dictionary of American Regional English

Summary

• Informant Data:
• ID006: White; male; age: 72 (old); education: high school; community type: small city
• Media Files:
• Full Interview 1 (Tape 0384-S1).
• Content:
• 00:17 Informant's work on the railroad
• 06:05 Informant's wife's work
• 06:10 Informant's work/life after the railroad
• 06:40 Occupational names
• 07:51 Conductors and engineers—occupational description
• 08:56 Quality of steam engines—diesels
• 11:18 Informant's opinion of working on the railroad
• 11:24 (Informant's) running of engines
• 13:55 Casualty rates/turnover of railroad workers
• 14:42 Brakemen—occupational description
• 15:48 Pocatello in 1917
• 16:30 Boomers—description of
• 19:01 Informant's work—regular freight
• 19:34 Passenger—occupational description
• 20:51 Work in the railroad yard
• 22:00 Speed of trains
• 23:34 Workers' attitudes toward diesels
• 25:36 Communication between trains and stations
• 28:12 Fights between workers
• 29:10 Occupational description
• 31:03 Railroad unions
• 32:08 Tape end
• Full Interview 2 (Tape 0384-S2).
• Content:
• 00:05 The railroad union
• 01:15 Trouble between union and management
• 04:45 Switchman—occupational description
• 05:18 Section laborers—occupational description
• 07:15 Informant's experience with train wrecks
• 07:52 Causes of train wrecks
• 10:10 Conductor—occupational description
• 11:30 Hoboes—treatment of, problems with
• 14:31 Indians in the community
• 15:52 Prohibition and local taverns
• 18:37 Tourists in Pocatello
• 21:10 Treaties with Indians
• 22:00 Cowboys—description of
• 26:08 "Negroes" in Pocatello—population
• 28:59 Population of Pocatello
• 30:42 Animals in community
• 32:00 Tape end
• Full Interview 3 (Tape 0385-S1).
• Content:
• 00:20 Early Mormons
• 01:42 Names for crops
• 03:20 Trouble with Mormons
• 04:18 Polygamous families
• 05:05 The splitting of the Mormon Church
• 07:36 Settling of homestead
• 10:12 Area opened up for homestead
• 11:36 Railroad terms
• 11:54 Prostitutes
• 14:02 Railroad terms
• 15:05 Tape end