Oral history interview with Minnie Crouse Rasmussen by Bill Tennent [Transcript]

Oral history interview by Bill Tennent with Minnie Crouse. Topics include: Living in Brown's Park as a child; Stories about John Jarvie, Nell Jarvie's death from tuberculosis; Saloons; Dugouts; Cellars; Changes in the Green River course; Log cabins; Stores; Traveling to Rock Springs for supplies; John and Nell Jarvie's children; Coal mines; Mining in red Creek Canyon; Caring for broken ribs; Jarvie's life as a single dad; Sewing clothes for his boys; Cooking; Jarvie time as the Postmaster; Practicing phrenology; Playing the violin and concertina; John Jarvie's murder and discovery of his body; Interactions with the Natives; Minnie's Father's missing thumb; Hunting; Diverting water from the Green River for irrigation; Stories about other well-known characters in Brown's Park such as Albert "Speck" Williams, Harry Hoy, Ann Bassett, Josie Bassett, George Kelvington; Matt Warner, Elzy Lay, Isom Dart, and Butch Cassidy; The care Minnie's mother gave Speck Williams when he was injured in a fight with Minnie's father; Josie Basset staying in Minnie's boarding house in Linwood at the time of her Josie's husband, Emerson "Nig" Wells' death; Minnie finding her personal items in Josie's suitcase along with a bottle of strychnine; Discoverying George Kelvington's dead body; Being friends with outlaw Matt Warner and gifts that Minnie received from Matt while he was in prison; An accident that Warner's wife had that necissitated the amupation of her leg at Minnie's home; The death of Mrs. Warner; Riding on Isom Dart's shoulder's; The summer that Elzy Lay worked for Minnie's father; Minnie's brother's being lost and found; and thinking Butch Cassidy was a nice man and good with animlas.