Jimmie Underwood, Oral History, Part One of Two
Files
Date
1985-05-07
Description
This is part one of a two-part audio recording of an oral history interview with Jimmie Underwood. It was conducted May 5, 1985. The interviewer is Francis Rosell. Jimmie Underwood was born in 1907.
He begins the interview by talking about cotton farming with his father as he was growing up. He details cultivating cotton with a mule, and states that when his father first saw a tractor, he wanted to buy one but was afraid he would not live long enough to pay it off. According to Underwood, he was one of the first people in Red River County to buy a tractor in 1936. He details how his farming methods changed as a result, and that many of his friends were skeptical of replacing their mules, with machines.
Type
Sound
Format
mp4
Language
eng
Department
Special Collections and University Archives
Identifier
2008-032_OH_00093-01_interview
Note
Audio enhanced with Adobe Creative Cloud AI tool
Recommended Citation
Underwood, Jimmie and Rosell, Francis, "Jimmie Underwood, Oral History, Part One of Two" (1985-05-07). All Oral Histories. 128.
https://digitalcommons.tamuc.edu/scua-oral-history-all/128
Subject
Cotton growing; Great Depression; Agriculture; Red River County (Tex.)
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