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Oral history interview with Billy Gean Ellis… duration 30 minutes 20 seconds Oral history interview with Billy Gean Ellis… Oral history interview with Billy Gean Ellis [sound recording] 2002 Oct. 26.	Oral history interview with Billy Gean Ellis [sound recording] 2002 Oct. 26. Billy Ellis recounts his early days as lookout at the fire lookout station on Devils Head summit in Douglas County Colo. the last manned fire lookout station in Colorado. He describes the lookout… fire thing lot sort couple wife summer tower communication forest stove kids lookout things lightning phones children radio town place From DigitalCollections@du.edu Digital Collections 0 likes 0 plays 0
John Crosby for Colorado Reflections duration 17 minutes 47 seconds John Crosby for Colorado Reflections John Crosby for Colorado Reflections	John Crosby for Colorado Reflections No description given university of colorado denver u358 a sound model digital archive oral histories interviews john lookout mountain buffalo bill lot spring reflections snow story road recollections crosby coal money wagon trunk 1st friend stories From SCA-DCS-Owners 0 likes 0 plays 0
Oral History Interview with Robert L.… duration 41 minutes 56 seconds Oral History Interview with Robert L.… Oral History Interview with Robert L. "Bob" Martin 1984 July 22 (Side B)	Oral History Interview with Robert L. "Bob" Martin 1984 July 22 (Side B) Robert Martin discusses the one season he worked as a smokejumper in 1941. He talks about the training at the Nine Mile Ranger Station in Montana the equipment and the equipment modifications he… university of montana u358 a sound model digital archive oral histories interviews smoke jumpers firefighters fire thing lot man fires mind kind guy night front mouth job stories lookout water rate hand eagles pack town smokejumpers From SCA-DCS-Owners 0 likes 0 plays 0
Oral History Interview with Francis B. Lufkin #3… duration 47 minutes 33 seconds Oral History Interview with Francis B. Lufkin #3… Oral History Interview with Francis B. Lufkin #3 1984 June 7 (Side B)	Oral History Interview with Francis B. Lufkin #3 1984 June 7 (Side B) Francis Lufkin discusses his 40-year career with the U.S. Forest Service which includes being one of the first smokejumpers as well as an equipment developer trainer and base manager of the North… university of montana u358 a sound model digital archive oral histories interviews smoke jumpers firefighters fire lot guys district things telephone feet times ground airplane kind equipment lookout fact firewall cargo training side couple land smokejumpers From SCA-DCS-Owners 0 likes 0 plays 0
Oral History Interview with Howard Beatty 1984… duration 47 minutes 26 seconds Oral History Interview with Howard Beatty 1984… Oral History Interview with Howard Beatty 1984 June 7 (Side A)	Oral History Interview with Howard Beatty 1984 June 7 (Side A) Howard Beatty of Twisp Washington discusses his career as a smokejumper from 1948 until 1954 in Winthrop Washington Montana and Cave Junction Oregon. Beatty talks about participating in… university of montana u358 a sound model digital archive oral histories interviews smoke jumpers fire tree lot jumper ground smoke jump kind lookout shoot feet helicopter experience tower thing jumps jumpers son trails country firefighter firefighters firefighting From SCA-DCS-Owners 0 likes 0 plays 0