Mike Burchak Index - Side 1 Introduction 0-1 1 Born 191 2 What Mike Remembers About His Mother (Anne Burchak) 1 2-1 9 10 children 20-44 Home remedies for illness 4 5-57 Anne lives in log cabin at Fowler Creek 58-60 Coal oil lamps 61-86 Anne's home crafts Anne's Recipes 87-107 Recipes 108-11 5 Root cellars 11 6-11 7 Poltevietza 118-142 Bobalika 143-1 54 More on poltievetza 1 55-161 Canning 1 62-168 Honey 1 69-187 Butter/Cottage cheese 188-1 9 9 Marketing cheese 200-220 Butter and WW II 2 2 1-22 7 Horse team runs away in Cle Elum Burchak Neighbors 228-266 Anderson family/ski course/champion skiing from Norway. 267-279 Biers family 280-295 Roseburg family 296-311 K 0 Lund family/sold land to Bur_chak 3 12-32 2 Nelson family and Nelson Siding 323-354 Other families What Mike Remembers About His Father- Paul Burchak 3 55-401 skills/traces migration to the farm 402-41 9 Father tests black powder- 2 kids burned-one 420-433 434-547 548-561 562-582 583-598 599-678 died. rules at the dinner table. musical talent/mike plays the accordion. coal mining days. logging days. 1926 automobile resourcefulness-makes own farm tools/
cuts ties for N.P. and cord wood. 679-699 Father s brother passes at Fowler Creek What life was like growing up on the farm. 700-71 5 Life on the farm in 1917. 71 6-7 4 9 History of the Burchak farm 7 50-770 Mat Anderson built 1st bldg./k.o. Lund builds others. 7 71-7 8 5 Where home got its water. 7 8 6-8 1 6 Chores on the farm. 817-873 Gardening activities on the farm 874-889 Describes the root cellar 890-939 Seeding by hand/source of seed 940-945 Horses on the farm. 946-End
Mike Burchak Index -- Side 2 Mike Describes His Life At Fowler Creek 0-3 1 Haying and the hand bailer. 3 2-3 8 Tractors and plows. 3 9-40 Size of the farm. 41-49 Why farming changes 50-61 Salting the hay. 6 2-7 8 Cutting and bucking hay. 7 9-9 4 Animals on the farm. 9 5-1 1 1 Marketing the produce-nwi Co./Fassero/Safeway Hog and cow prices in the 1930s. 1 1 2-1 41 Sheep in the area-john Douglas. Mike Describes Gardening Activities. 142-149 Home use and marketing surplus. 1 50-1 69 Planting by signs/health plants 1 70-1 79 Preserving food/barrels/canning/root cellar 180-186 Woods as a food source. 1 8 7-2 0 6 Weather and seasons--1 91 6 snow 2 0 7-2 1 5 More on Fowler Creek History Events Which Changed Fa-rming 216-232 Highline Canal-sells milk to crews 2 33-24 7 WW 11-prices/rationing 248-261 Great Depression-money and job shortage/prices Inventions On The Farm. 262-287 Coming of Electricity. 288-305 Tractors-Bailers Prohibition Era.- 306-341 Mike's Trapping History. 342-344 Why trap/starts at age 12. 3 4 5-3 6 5 What animals are trapped. 3 6 6-3 9 2 Most valuable and rare animals 393-414 Identifies other trappers in the area. 41 5-429 Trapper's cabins--ole and Swede 430-4 7.5 Trapper stories-mike catches trout in trap/traps skunk and kicked out of school. 4 76-486 Skills needed to trap. 487-544 Describes the habits on animals. 54 5-5 53 Different animal colors 554-563 Wolves in the area.
564-704 How to prepare different animal hides/prime pelt 7 0 5-7 53 When to trap/where to sell hides. 7 54 7 6 8 1 944 best year-- see slide on documented sale 769-84 7 Rules for trapping--conservation--county and state game department--information on each trap 848-889 Trapping territory/where Mike trapped. 890-941 Packing animals/scents used 942- End
Mike Burchak Index--Side 3 Trapping con't 0-5 7 Impact of mink farms/wild animals as pets/mink prices. Schools in the Fowler Creek Area 58-69 Size of Fowler Creek School 70-7 7 What happened to Fowler School 78-84 Teachers at Fowler School 8 5-1 2 6 Memories-Lunch/Tree house/sports/school day I Teacher's duties. 12 7-1 4 1 Names of students at Fowler. 142-162 Classroom management--teaching/discipline 1 6 3-1 7 2 Programs at Fowler--Ski course/basket socials 173-207 Ski Course-Where--Who built it.--when--where kids got their skies.--prizes. 208-224 Number of families on Fowler Creek. Fishing and Hunting 2 2 5-259 Fishing at 1st and Little Creek/size of limits 2 60-287 Deer& Elk limits/when elk arrive/ducks Lodges 288-371 Slavic lodges/paper/marie comments/dances Transportation 3 72-45 3 Horse & buggy/plowing snow/grading roads/train at Nelson Siding/airplane. 4 54-524 Car /gas stations/licenses/speed limits/lantern on Mike's car/uses for model T engines on the farm. lndians- 525-580 Cle Elum Fire 1918--581-599 Logging--600-61 0 Mining--611-661 John John Strum Clymer--662-716 Clymer paints Mike's Home for Post Magazine March 23, 1957 issue. Closing--717-757