Westerners Presentation
Title: History of Cowboy Music
Presenter: Katie Lee
Audio Number: 111B (Side 2)
Duration: 00:59:52
Date of Presentation: June 3, 1977
Oral History
Interviewee: Grace Marie Edson (b. 05/31/1904 – d. 09/13/1999)
Interviewer: Mona McCroskey
Audio Number: 840
Duration: 00:27:41
Date: July 1, 1991
Topics Discussed: Prescott history 1920-1970s, medical community 1930s, snowstorm 1967, 1940 Mercy Hospital fire, county hospitals
Oral History
Interviewee: Alice Marie Leffingwell (b. 01/25/1922 – d. xx/xx/xxxx)
Interviewer: Mona McCroskey
Audio Number: 1458
Duration: 00:39:27
Date: March 19, 2003
Topics Discussed: French Gulch, Yavapai College, Walnut Grove, Arizona
Oral History
Interviewee: Walter V. Edwards, M.D. (b. 10/03/1916 – d. 05/17/2005)
Interviewer: Mona McCroskey
Audio Number: 1098-1099
Duration: 01:28:02
Date: October 28, 1995
Topics Discussed: Verde Valley medical community, Arizona health legislation 1953-1954, Arizona State Hospital 1955-1960, Dr. Jason R. Moore 1960, Dr. A. Carlson 1946-1955, medical history 1946-1986
Oral History
Interviewee: Joseph Grover Lessard (b. 08/22/1917 – d. 06/04/2001)
Interviewer: Sylvia Neely
Audio Number: 1340
Duration: 01:01:46
Date: October 30, 2000
Topics Discussed: Mining in Yavapai Company, ranching in Humbolt, Arizona, third generation Yavapai County family
Oral History
Interviewee: Geraldine "Geri" Fennell Eliot (b. 07/19/1900 – d. xx/xx/1997)
Interviewer: Mona McCroskey
Audio Number: 941-942
Duration: 01:39:48
Date: August 28, 1992
Topics Discussed: Cecil Fennell family, Val Verde smelter, McCabe, William C. Eliot, Castle Hot Springs, Iron Springs 1931
Oral History
Interviewee: Ruth Frances (Powers) Lessard (b. 05/16/1919 – d. 12/05/2002)
Interviewer: Sylvia Neely
Audio Number: 1334-1335
Duration: 01:28:24
Date: October 13, 2000
Topics Discussed: Powers family, Washington and Millery Valley school histories
Oral History
Interviewee: Elisabeth "Bette" (Friedrich) Ruffner (b. 09/17/1919 – d. 03/13/2019)
Interviewer: Joanie Price
Audio Number: 1591
Duration: 00:20:40
Date: 2005
Acquisition Number: ACC# 2014.049
Topics Discussed: The Elks Opera House & Theater and Elks Building.
Oral History
Interviewee: Martha "Mattie" (Jacobs) Leyel (b. 06/14/1902 – d. 03/29/1990)
Interviewer: Virginia Rice
Audio Number: 1483
Duration: 00:54:44
Date: December 13, 1974
Topics Discussed: Jerome Junction c. 1910, nurses' training in Los Angeles, Jerome, nursing Jerome miners, and the old Jerome hospital, Cottonwood, 1918 flu epidemic in Clarkdale
Oral History
Interviewee: Norma June Elliott (b. 03/20/1925 – d. 03/xx/2016)
Interviewer: Mona McCroskey
Audio Number: 1554-1555
Duration: 01:11:02
Date: September 23, 2009
Topics Discussed: Jerome, Arizona c. 1930s, Masonic Lodge,


