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Audio Recording Interview with ranchers Karl Knorr and Jean Knorr, Kremmling, Summit County, Colorado, part 3

Interview with Karl Knorr, rancher, and Jean Knorr, Kremmling, Summit County, Colorado, part 3

About this Item

Title

  • Interview with ranchers Karl Knorr and Jean Knorr, Kremmling, Summit County, Colorado, part 3

Names

  • Marshall, Howard W. (Research team member)
  • Natanson, Barbara Orbach (Research team member)
  • Dettmer, Elke, 1944- (Research team member)
  • Knorr, Karl (Interviewee)
  • Knorr, Jean (Interviewee)

Created / Published

  • Summit County, Colorado, August 25, 1980

Headings

  • -  Folklore--Colorado
  • -  Field recordings
  • -  Interviews
  • -  Sound recording
  • -  United States -- Colorado -- Summit County

Genre

  • Field recordings
  • Interviews
  • Sound recording

Notes

  • -  Index data: Part 3 of a 4-part interview with Karl Knorr, joined by his wife Jean Knorr, at the at the Knorr ranch near the Green River Reservoir near Heeney, CO (project field documentation refers to the operation as the "Knorr Brothers Ranch" and/or "Karl Knorr Ranch" and lists postal addresses in Dillon, CO, and Kremmling, CO), the log indicates that fieldworkers Elke Dettmer, Rusty Marshall, and Barbara Orbach participated. Although free-form, most of the discussion in parts 1, 2, and 3 was framed by looking through 20 photos in the family album, stacked in the order that Marshall would copy with his camera the next day, about the Doig log house (now vacant, at some Knorr hayfields), the Knorrs hope to fix it up, new roof and more; Karl and Jean think about moving there after they retire, would build a road to get there in summer, small log building at the site was a tool shed or something, the roof on the shed is "just boards, they just bend boards, you know, you got a log through the middle that's higher than the side, and you put boards over and bend them down and nail them and another board over the crack and you've got it made, it's just called a 'board roof,' I guess," the house has 1915 Saturday Evening Post as wallpaper, Doig had one house burn down and then built this one, Knorr's term is log "dovetailed corners," for him, the dovetail cut does not have to have a slant, the Doig family is gone now although some still live in Denver, the old man Doig stayed in the log house unti1 he died, that was part of the sale arrangement, house has been vacant for 18 years, there is a spring in back in the willows, no electricity, Doig used kerosene and gas lanterns, Knorr says, "it's a typical log house, two rooms downstairs, two rooms up," the Doig house is exactly liked the one Knorr's great-uncle George Guyselman built, the brother of his maternal grandfather Judge William A. Guyselman, George built several buildings in the area, e.g., the first house now on the ranch, had been the old post office for the lakeside community, George Guyselman died before Knorr was born, both George and William Guyselman were Civil War vets, Union side; photo 9, draft horse with Karl Knorr's father; ca. 1915, Percheron draft horses, favorites of his father; "Smarty" shown in the picture, comments that Belgian draft horses were also popular in this region; photo 10, a picnic, Knorr comments, "you can see they're fixing to have a picnic, just as plain as can be," a man in the photo wears jeans, identified as Levis, Knorr comments that most men wore either "bib overalls" or waist overalls and suspenders, "Dad always wore suspenders, and waist overalls," i.e., jeans, picnics with neighbors were a big thing in the summer, prepare baskets of food and drink, and drive carts up to Cataract Lake or someplace like that, there would be music "in the old club house," fiddling and square dance, Knorr plays drums today, in a dance band, Photo 11 (spoken on tape as 10), three young bulls belonging to Knorr senior, ca. 1925, Karl Knorr comments that his father was one of first to change over from shorthorns to Herefords, also in background of picture is a homemade clothes line with a platform and axle that whirled around to hang clothes, Karl Knorr made another one out of old Star automobile wheel, still used today.

Medium

  • audiotape reel, 7 in.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Call number: AFC 1991/031: AFS 22447
  • MBRS Shelflist: RXA 4012
  • Field project identifier: CO-80-HM-R3

Source Collection

  • Colorado Folklife Project collection (AFC 1991/031)

Repository

  • American Folklife Center

Digital Id

Online Format

  • audio

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Credit line: Colorado Folklife Project collection (AFC 1991/031), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

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Chicago citation style:

Marshall, Howard W, Barbara Orbach Natanson, Elke Dettmer, Karl Knorr, and Jean Knorr. Interview with ranchers Karl Knorr and Jean Knorr, Kremmling, Summit County, Colorado, part 3. Summit County, Colorado, 1980. Audio. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/afc1991031_afs22447/.

APA citation style:

Marshall, H. W., Natanson, B. O., Dettmer, E., Knorr, K. & Knorr, J. (1980) Interview with ranchers Karl Knorr and Jean Knorr, Kremmling, Summit County, Colorado, part 3. Summit County, Colorado. [Audio] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/afc1991031_afs22447/.

MLA citation style:

Marshall, Howard W, et al. Interview with ranchers Karl Knorr and Jean Knorr, Kremmling, Summit County, Colorado, part 3. Summit County, Colorado, 1980. Audio. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/afc1991031_afs22447/>.