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Marlen Buttke Photos
Marlen Buttke's son, Bob Buttke, shared the following with the Civilian Conservation Corps Museum of South Dakota.
"Our family is pleased that you would like to receive digital photos of our father Marlen Buttke's time at Pactola. He was very proud of his time there and spoke of many friendships. He recounted the fitness of the men and told us of pull-up contests where the winner had performed over 100 pull-ups.
He also told us of times in Hill City. He said that he and some of the others would ride the log trucks in on Friday night, buy a pint of whiskey for 50 cents and attend a dance. Having no place to stay in town, they devised a plan. At the end of the evening, they walked up to the town policeman and made some wisecracks. Predictably, they were escorted to the jail and then served coffee and breakfast the next morning and released. When the policeman saw them approach him on the next Friday evening, he just broke into a smile and said that there was no need to go through the wisecracking again and simply waved at the young men to follow him to the jail for their overnight accommodations.
Marlen's family desperately needed the money sent home monthly and it was a real benefit for the family to have him receive that opportunity.
Thank you for keeping the story of the CCC's alive."
Reproduced from scanned images in various condition.
Marlen Buttke in the CCC.
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Pactola
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CCC Camp Pactola
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CCC Camp Pactola Trio
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CCC Camp Pactola - Charlie Montny
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CCC Camp Pactola - Charlie Montny
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CCC Camp Pactola - Chow Line
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CCC Camp Pactola - Erdman
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CCC Camp Pactola
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CCC Camp Pactola - Gates Westbanger
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CCC Camp Pactola - George Butenschoen, Marlen Buttke, Oscar Butenschoen in front, man on top unidentified
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CCC Camp Pactola - George Butenschoen
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CCC Camp Pactola - George Butenschoen
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CCC Camp Pactola - CCC Group
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CCC Camp Pactola - CCC Group
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CCC Camp Pactola - CCC Group
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CCC Camp Pactola - CCC Group
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CCC Camp Pactola - Hank Lunde
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CCC Camp Pactola - Joe Scott and Captain Kent
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CCC Camp Pactola - CCC Group
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CCC Camp Pactola - Marlen Buttke
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CCC Camp Pactola - Marlen Buttke
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CCC Camp Pactola - Marlen Buttke
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CCC Camp Pactola Bunkhouse
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CCC Camp Pactola
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CCC Camp Pactola - Shoenberger and Erdman
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CCC Camp Pactola - Shoenberger
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CCC Camp Pactola - Terry Hildebrandt and Dan Miller
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CCC Camp Pactola
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CCC Camp Pactola
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CCC Camp Pactola
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CCC Camp Pactola
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