Oral History
Interviewee: Clay Dean (Carter) Potter (b. 10/04/1907 – d. 09/04/2002)
Interviewer: Mona McCroskey
Audio Number: 1089
Duration: 00:48:09
Date: October 12, 1995
Topics Discussed: Goat ranching and sale of mohair; Kirkland Junction Store 1932-1972; Walnut Grove School 1927-1933; Kirkland School 1933, rationing during World War II
Oral History
Interviewee: Pierce Carter Potter (b. 07/05/1933 – d. xx/xx/xxxx)
Interviewer: Mona McCroskey
Audio Number: 1106
Duration: 00:45:45
Date: December 18, 1995
Topics Discussed: Kirkland Junction 1935-1950, Walnut Grove 1940s, White Spar Road c. 1935, James "Jimmy" Minotto, Wilhoit, Arizona; c. 1935
Oral History
Interviewee: William "Bud" Daily Poulson (b. 12/15/1910 – d. 09/26/1999)
Interviewer: Mona McCroskey
Audio Number: 978-979
Duration: 01:27:06
Date: June 18, 1993
Topics Discussed: Poulson Funeral Home, Hicks Produce, Hotel St. Michael 1929; John F. Mahony, J. B. McNally, Yankee Doodle plan crash
Oral History
Interviewee: Alma J. Pouquette (b. 09/11/1912 – d. 03/21/2006)
Interviewer: Mona McCroskey
Audio Number: 1268
Duration: 00:43:45
Date: November 5, 1998
Topics Discussed: Pouquette family history, Fayrene Hume, Escalante Hotel, Fred Harvey, Ash Fork, Arizona history, White House Hotel
Oral History
Interviewee: Richard Croxdale Prince (b. 06/28/1921 – d. 04/13/2009)
Interviewer: Mona McCroskey
Audio Number: 962
Duration: 00:51:53
Date: February 24, 1993
Topics Discussed: Family history, Stringfield Ranch, The Arizona Power Company (TAPCO)-Irving Plant, Apaches at Irving, Prescott weather in the 1930s
Oral History
Interviewee: Doris Marie (Jorgensen) Purviance (b. 10/25/1910 – d. 12/10/2004)
Interviewer: Mona McCroskey
Audio Number: 1107
Duration: 00:39:59
Date: December 20, 1995
Topics Discussed: Prescott Community Hospital Auxiliary 1950-1995, Chaplaincy at Community Hospital, Community Hospital move 1964, White Spar Road c. 1940
Oral History
Interviewee: Eleanor L. Pugh (b. 09/28/1925 – d. 12/04/2018)
Interviewer: Sylvia Neely
Audio Number: 1303-1304
Duration: 02:02:47
Date: January 20, 2000
Topics Discussed: Fort Whipple Veterans Administration (VA) Center, Smoki People organization and Museum, Smoki Snake Dance Controversy, 128 N. Mt. Vernon Street Residence - also called Idylrest Nursing Home in 1960s, Prescott Businesses, Junior Bonner Movie, Civil Workers Administration,Neural Site at Willow Lake & Perry Mesa.
NOTE: There in more information in the Yavapai Heritage Foundation Collection, MS-38 regarding the 128 N. Mt. Vernon Street Residence when it was a nursing home called Idylrest in the 1960s.
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Interviewee: William "Bill" H. Puntenney (b. 10/11/1919 – d. 03/17/1999)
Interviewer: Mona McCroskey
Audio Number: 854
Duration: 00:43:42
Date: August 26, 1991
Topics Discussed: Family history, ranching Yavapai County 1920s, cowboy life, Williamson Valley, Jim Hazel family, military career, Yaqui Ordunez
Oral History
Interviewee: James Elwin "Bud" Purtymun
Interviewer: Mona McCroskey
Audio Number: 1443-1444
Duration: 01:48:56
Date: November 25, 2002
Topics Discussed: Purtymun and Howard families, orchards in Oak Creek
Oral History
Interviewee: Betty B. Ramuz
Interviewer: Mona McCroskey
Audio Number: 819-820
Duration: 01:28:56
Date: April 26, 1991
Topics Discussed: Ramuz family history, rodeo parade, Miller Valley, Pancho Villa, Arizona Power Company in Cottonwood 1919-1925, Yavapai County Poor Farm, St. Joseph Academy, Tall Pines Cabins