Oral History
Interviewee: Johnie Lee (Parsons) Fain (b. 05/15/1906 – d. 09/10/1999)
Interviewer: Mona McCroskey
Audio Number: 1157-1158
Duration: 01:11:07
Date: September 23, 1996
Topics Discussed: Yavapai County Cowbelles History; Junior Yavapai County Cattle Growers; and Establishment of the Sharlot Hall Museum Territorial Women’s Memorial Rose Garden.
Oral History
Interviewee: Johnie Lee (Parsons) Fain (b. 05/15/1906 – d. 09/10/1999)
Interviewer: Mona McCroskey
Audio Number: 1144 & 1145
Duration: 01:29:57 & 01:21:14
Date: 1989
Topics Discussed: Pioneer Ranch Wife Part 1 - Pioneer Ranch Life, Texas, and Arizona, Skull Valley, Kirkland Dances, St. Joseph’s Academy, Prescott Chamber of Commerce Job; State Teacher’s College at Tempe, Arizona, Brand 44, Rafter 11 Ranch Brands, Verde Valley Life, Page Springs Ranch, and Grandmother Nellie Beck.
Pioneer Ranch Wife - Part 2 - Life in Yaeger Canyon; Cattle Round-Up filmed with Dorothy Fay Southworth – Tex Ritter’s Wife; World War II Gas Rationing; Headquarters; House Fire; Coyote Ranch; 1945 Cattle Roundup; Townships; Orme Ranch; “Holding the Herd”; Senator Jimmy Minotto; 1967 Snowstorm and Horse Accident & End of Riding Days.
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Interviewee: Johnie Lee (Parsons) Fain (b. 05/15/1906 – d. 09/10/1999)
Interviewer: Pioneer Productions Staff Member
Audio Number: 1146
Duration: 01:29:04
Date: 1989
Topics Discussed: Pioneering Days in Arizona - Arizona Cattle Growers Radio Appearance; Father Kino; Early Arizona History; Pete Kitchens; Chino Valley and Lonesome Valley; Gold Discovery on Lynx Creek; Walker Party; Sam Miller & Burnt Ranch; Indian Wars; Granville “Dan” Fain; HA Brand; Montezuma Well Ranch; Yaeger Canyon; Westerner’s Club speech; Barlow Massick; Open Range Ends; Diamond F Ranch; Marion Perkins and Sons; Diamond S Ranch and the Hashknife Outfit & OK Cattle Companies.
Radio Broadcast
Program Name: Echos of the Past & Cowboy Camp Meeting
Producer: Yavapai Cowbelles
Narrator: Johnie Lee (Parson) Fain & Dr. Talbert
Audio Number: 1294
Duration: 00:30:59
Date: 1930s (?) - Reproduced 1999
Topics Discussed: History of Perkins Family, Bob Perkins, Wranglers, Cattle driving from New Mexico & Texas to Arizona and Cowboy Camp Meeting.
Oral History
Interviewee: Johnie Lee (Parsons) Fain (b. 05/15/1906 – d. 09/10/1999)
Interviewer: Mona McCroskey
Audio Number: 1137-1139
Duration: 02:45:11
Date: June 20, 1996 & June 24, 1996
Topics Discussed: John Lee Parsons Family, c. 1906-1925; Granville Fain Family, Miller Family and Valley, c. 1917; Yavapai County Cowbelles, Ranch Life, 1928-1970, Dr. John C. Taylor, c. 1935; Sharlot Hall; Rafter Eleven Ranch, 1905-1995; Barlow-Massick Castle; “Dan” Granville Fain & Prescott Valley History.
Oral History
Interviewee: Norman William Fain (b. 02/09/1907 – d. 03/02/2000)
Interviewer: Mona McCroskey
Audio Number: 835-838
Duration: 01:00:18, 01:02:31, 01:01:35, 00:22:20
Date: June 25, 1991
Topics Discussed: Fain Family History, Stanford University, 1924-1928, Fain Cattle Raising, Prescott Valley History, Orchard Ranch, Prescott Country Club and Sheep Ranching.
Oral History
Interviewee: Alpheus "Al" Lambert Favour (b. 11/06/1914 – d. 01/12/2008)
Interviewer: Mona McCroskey
Audio Number: 950-951
Duration: 00:57:35, 00:43:48
Date: January 15, 1993
Topics Discussed: Favour family history, law practice, cattle business, circus, North Mount Vernon Street c 1920, Arizona Legislature
Oral History
Interviewee: John McLean Favour (b. 09/09/1921 – d. 03/16/2014)
Interviewer: Mona McCroskey
Audio Number: 1135
Duration: 00:36:43
Date: June 18, 1996
Topics Discussed: Prescott legal community 1940s, Alpheus H. Favour family 1917-1940, Prescott gambling and prostitution, Chinese in Prescott 1930-1940s
Oral History
Interviewee: Erminia (Mariani) Federighi (b. 08/08/1905 – d. 01/15/2005)
Interviewer: Mona McCroskey
Audio Number: 1111-1112
Duration: 01:16:41
Date: February 8, 1996
Topics Discussed: Prescott c. 1920 to 1990s, Prescott Dairy 1920s, Verde Valley dairies c. 1925, Frontier Days 1920s
Oral History
Interviewee: Bruce D. Fee (b. 07/21/1926 – d. 02/28/2018)
Interviewer: Sylvia Neely
Audio Number: 1407-1408
Duration: 01:59:27
Date: May 20, 2002
Topics Discussed: Artist, Smoki People, Prescott Corral of Westerners