Don Davis is interviewing Griff Lee and an unidentified woman (Lee's wife?);

00:00:05 - Cattle industry;
00:02:00 - Davis is reading a document about Cameron Parish; Grand Chenier; Treasure legend of Jean Lafitte; Pecan Island; Money Island;
00:04:05 - The Philips were the first white family in Grand Chenier; Hurricane in 1824; They all drowned; Indian man warned the family about the weather, but they didn't listen;
00:05:05 - First settlers in Grand Chenier from the eastern states: McCaul, Armstrong, Smith, Lindstrom, Harris, Carter, Weatherhill, Root, Haul, Hall, Sweeney, Barnson, Tanner, Graves, Broussard, Miller, Durr, Doxy, Stanford, McDonald, Weatherford; Later French settlers: Audoin, Dupuis, Dyson, Meyer, Landry, Trahan, Boudreaux, Monty;
00:06:15 - Building materials were unavailable, so lumber was imported on the river; Cattle industry; Hurricane Audrey;

Another interview starts; Interview with Alvin Dyson on October 23rd at his home in Cameron, Louisiana;
00:07:33 - Introduction;
00:08:15 - Johnsons Bayou; Cattle ranchers; Cotton farmers; Trappers;
00:10:00 - Alvin's paternal great-grandfather, Thom Dyson, moved to Chenier au Tigre after the Civil War; He had 13 children and trapped and hunted alligators;
00:11:00 - He was born in Pecan Island; Moved to Cameron Parish after the trapping season of 1929;
00:13:20 - Oil companies started digging canals and it changed the habitat and marshes; 1932 survey of the land;
00:15:15 - Trapping business; In 1936, they leased some land to the oil companies; Trapping mink in ditches;
00:18:20 - Nutria introduced by McIlhenny then they migrated west and became primary animal; Mink, racoons, muskrats;
00:19:35 - Oil companies dredge bigger canals; Drainage systems; 15 million muskrats per year produced in Louisiana, which was more than anywhere else in the USA; Trapping industry declined due to the environmental impact of the oil industry;
00:22:40 - Miami Corporations boundaries; Vermilion Parish; Sweet Lake, Blind Lake; Discuss canals around Calcasieu Lake; Chocolate Canal;
00:25:00 - Canals built by Sweet Lake Land Company approximately between 1910 and 1920; Land reclamation; Commissary Point;
00:27:22 - Land west of Calcasieu Lake belonged to the Orange Cameron Land Company; Canals in that area; Levees;
00:30:20 - Minkem Sr. owns oil rights; Many of the canals west of Calcasieu Lake were primarily built to improve trapping; Magnolia Vacuum Canal; West Cove Canal; Stark;
00:33:20 - Trapping ditches; pirogues; Mud boats;
00:36:50 - Camps in the marsh; Little Chenier, Grand Chenier, Creole; Cost $50 a day to build a pirogue ditch (about 8 miles a day); Today it costs $300-$400 a day;
00:39:00 - South of Sweet Lake; Duck hunting; Nutria took out saltgrass;
00:41:55 - Hunting lease used to cost $50/section, now $200/section; Hog Bayou and Grand Lake; Millers Canal; Club Canal; Crab Lake;
00:45:50 - The Cranes dredged the canal as a right-of-way in the 1930s; Dr. Miller built some canals to improve cattle grazing; Eugene Miller;
00:48:55 - Chain of ridges from the end of Grand Chenier to Pecan Island; Little Chenier Canal; Mermentau Mineral Lane; Chenier Perdu ridge;
00:52:00 - Creole Canal; Cotton gin in Creole and two or three cotton gins in Grand Chenier; Eugene Miller owned a lot of cattle; Mr. Wakefield, Mr. Davis, Mr. Henry;
00:54:00 - Most people settled after the Civil War; Lot of English people married French people; People primarily raised cotton, but people with more land raised cattle; People harvested sugar cane for personal use; Blue ribbon cane;

Another interview – Henry St. Pierre;
00:57:30 - Cypress; Squirrels; 13 families lived in the swamp near Blind River; Bayou Manchac;

Back to interview with Alvin Dyson;
01:00:30 - Not much rice farming in the area; Crane brothers; Lists oil companies;
01:04:00 - Cameron Orange Land Company; Camps west of Holly Beach; Using dynamite to make canals;
01:08:00 - Blackfish Lake; first inter-coastal canal joined multiple lakes; Canals; Mosquitos;
01:13:00 - Mosquito control commission; Insecticides; He served four years on the Gulf States Marine Fisheries Commission;
01:17:40 - Trapping between Calcasieu Lake and Sabine; People would burn the marsh to hunt alligators; The Steinbergs; Stories about his time in the trapping business;
01:29:15 - Davis asks about a rundown building down the road; Monkey Island;

Back to interview with Henry St. Pierre;
01:33:30 - Cooking chicken;
01:35:00 - Born in Grand Point; He's been to California twice;
01:37:00 - Sugar cane; He raised tobacco; Talks about his siblings;
01:44:15 - Difference between a bayou and a slew; Davis asks about a place on the river called the Red Church; Pierre Part;