Abstract Typed summary of detailed interview (14 leaves) with Andrew and Minnie Melgard concerning his life, the Snake River Farm and its purchase, farm's first owner who was named Woodward, Minnie's purchasing food supplies in bulk, cooking for sixty-five hired men, cleaning the bunkhouses, making soap and butter, butchering hogs, raising eight children, her collapse from stress and a map of the farm.

Abstract Letter from his sister Mrs. George Wright to Leonard Sackett, a typed summary of an interview with Sackett (4 leaves), concerning his father R.P. (Robert Porter) Boatman, the Loring Farm, and B.B. Boatman's employment with Northwestern Bell Telephone, and obituaries of B.B. Boatman and his sister.

Abstract Typed and handwritten correspondence and reminiscences which include detailed description of Charles Loring's life on the Stickney Farm including threshing with steam engines, controlling weeds, life on the Montana ranch with mention of a cattle stampede, his military and legal career, with mention of his father Lyman, father-in-law Daniel C. Darrow and a criminal abortion charge, typed carbon copy of an interview with Burr B. Boatman (8 leaves), and another interview with Frank McCabe (4...