Item: Camp Rimini Oral History Collection, 1982-1983
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Finding Aid Title: Camp Rimini Oral History Collection, 1982-1983
Finding Aid Collection Number: 1349
Date Range of Collection: 1982-1983
Creator of Materials: Fischer, Karen, interviewer
Content Description: The collection includes nine audio cassettes, two bound copies of the interview transcriptions, and photocopies of two U.S. Army pamphlets dealing with the use of pack dogs. Interviews with Stuart Mace, David Armstrong, Eddie Barbeau, and John "Jack" Eslick. Topics include the problems involved in procuring and training sled dogs and sled-dog drivers for use in search-and-rescue work in the Arctic; the history of the detachment from its inception at Camp Hale, Colo., to its final days at Fort Robinson, Neb.; administering the program; the project's difficulties, accomplishments, and failures; feeding and health problems encountered by the dogs and search and rescue operations in Newfoundland and Greenland.
Finding Aid URL: http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv47302
Keywords: sled dogs, training, montana, world war
Subjects: Montana and Histories of the American West
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