Westerners Presentation
Title: Changes in the Rodeo, Cowboy terms, Cowboy songs & Smoki History
Presenter: Gail Gardner
Audio Number: 3B (Side 2)
Duration: 00:44:39
Date of Presentation: July 12, 1974
Oral History
Interviewee: Marion Lee Bigelow (b. 05/22/1923 – d. 01/28/2007)
Interviewer: Sylvia Neely
Audio Number: 1485-1486
Duration: 01:14:30
Date: May 13, 2004
Topics Discussed: Bigelow Family History - Mormon Settlers, South Pacific Campaign in World War II, Prescott School History - History teacher for 31 years and School Board Member, Prescott Education Association, Future Farmers of America and Mormon Missions.
Lecture / Presentation
Title: Cowboys at Work: Clothing & Equipment of the Yavapai Cowboy
Presenter: Gail Irwin Gardner (b. 12/25/1892 - d. 11/23/1988)
Audio Number: 122A
Duration: 00:19:54
Date: 1960
Acquisition Number: ACC# 2022.003
Topics Discussed: Cowboy equipment; clothing; chaps; tapaderos; boots; spurs; dallies; ropes; branding iron; stamp iron; running iron; horseshoes and mule shoes; canteens; bell mare; earmarks on cattle; Bob Heckle; Deering Ranch; Poem/song: “Sierry Petes: Tying Knots in the Devil’s Tail.”
Oral History
Interviewee: Joan (Kubik) Bigley (b. 08/13/1925 – d. xx/xx/xxxx)
Interviewer: Sylvia Neely
Audio Number: 1267
Duration: 01:00:12
Date: November 3, 1998
Topics Discussed: Whipple Veterans Administration Center and Hospital - Nursing in the 1950s
Lecture / Presentation
Title: Whiskey Row & Prescott Early Days
Presenter: Gail Irwin Gardner (b. 12/25/1892 - d. 11/23/1988)
Audio Number: 719A
Duration: 00:36:29
Date: 1961
Acquisition Number: ACC# 90.007
Topics Discussed: Whiskey Row History & Entertainments; Bob Canell Sr.; Wholesale Liquor Stores; Whiskey Row, Cortez Street & Miller Valley Bars & Owners; Lone Pine Station; Elks Lodge #330; Gambling Games; Musical Monstrosity Under Glass; Saloon Singers; Sheriff George Ruffner & Teamster Johnny Summers; Badger Fights; Trains Arrivals & Departures; Halfway House; First Class Brawls; Jake Marx; Whiskey Transport; Skull Valley; Iron Springs Summit; Ranch Chickens; John Barleycorn; Annual Temperance Lecture; Restricted District; Parlor House; “Denisons of the Underworld”; Band Leader Achilles LaGuardia; Barouche Carriage; Gamblers & Lady Friends; Turn of the Century Pastimes & the Good Old Days.
Oral History
Interviewee: Pearl (Hollamon) Bingaman (b. 05/02/1929 – d. xx/xx/xxxx)
Interviewer: Mona McCroskey
Audio Number: 1120
Duration: 00:52:07
Date: April 1, 1996
Topics Discussed: Yavapai-Apache Indians 1930s, Depression in the Verde Valley, President Teddy Roosevelt at the Roosevelt Dam Dedication, Post War Phoenix 1940s, C.C. "Tuffy" Peach 1894-1994.
Yavapai College Lecture
Presenter: Gail Irwin Gardner (b. 12/25/1892 - d. 11/23/1988)
Audio Number: 164
Duration: 01:02:07
Date: 1982
Acquisition Number: ACC# 2022.003
Topics Discussed: Gardner Family History, Prescott History, The 1900 Great Fire, Poetry, Origin of the "Sierry Petes" Poem & Song and Chinese Comminity of Prescott.
Oral History
Interviewee: Anton Henry "Hank" Bisjak (b. 01/24/1917 – d. 12/15/2006)
Interviewer: Mona McCroskey
Audio Numbers: 939-940
Duration: 01:18:11
Date: August 12, 1992
Topics Discussed: Chino Valley, Arizona; Russian Colony in Chino Valley; Dry Farming; Country Dances; Jerome Junction and the Fred Harvey Farm at Del Rio.
Oral History
Interviewee: Gail Irwin Gardner (b. 12/25/1892 - d. 11/23/1988)
Interviewer: Virginia Rice
Audio Number: 1469-1470
Duration: 02:06:57 & 00:47:56
Date: August 27, 1974
Acquisition Number: ACC# 88.015
Topics Discussed: Gardner Family History, Growing up in Prescott, Ranching & Cattle Business, Postmaster and Smoki People History. The last 47 minutes of this interview is Gail Gardner as his Smoki People persona Chief Hairlip.
Oral History
Interviewee: Anton Henry “Hank” Bisjak, Jr. (b. 01/24/1917 - d. 12/15/2006)
Interviewer: Virginia Rice
Audio Number: 983
Duration: 01:37:52
Date: November 26, 1974
Topics Discussed: Homesteading Chino Valley, Arizona; Bisjak Family History; Mining in McCabe; Farming during Depression Era; Chino Valley Irrigation District and Santa Fe ownership of Del Rio Farm/Ranch, supplies for Fred Harvey Houses and raising of Mules for Grand Canyon Bright Angel Trial.