DARE Interview : Watova, Oklahoma; Primary Informant OK001

Fieldworker

Maki, Reino

Date

• 1965

Publisher

Dictionary of American Regional English

Summary

• Informant Data:
• OK001: White; male; age: 78 (old); education: grade school; community type: rural
• Media Files:
• Full Interview 1 (Tape 1285-S1).
• Content:
• 00:30 Description of Informant's birth in a dugout
• 02:10 Family history—location of his parents' home
• 05:20 Tornado—blew down his house
• 08:45 Story about Cherokee Bill robbing a store
• 12:20 Life before Oklahoma became a state
• 14:40 1901 land opening, description of how Informant's dad got land
• 16:55 Drought
• 19:30 Description of building a pond, digging a well, description of local water, description of cistern
• 32:10 Snow levels in the past
• 34:20 Tape end
• Full Interview 2 (Tape 1286-S1). [Additional speakers: Informant's wife]
• Content:
• 00:30 How to hitch up a horse
• 05:30 How to hitch up oxen
• 10:20 Local trees—hauling lumber for houses, type of lumber that is best
• 16:10 Description of a box house
• 17:30 Description of a log house
• 20:40 How to build a frame house [speed of tape increases—voices are unintelligible]
• 22:30 Tape end