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.
Oral History
Interviewee: Gail Irwin Gardner (b. 12/25/1892 - d. 11/23/1988)
Interviewer: Charles Franklin Parker
Audio Number: 720A
Duration: 00:31:47
Date: August 17, 1959
Acquisition Number: ACC# 90.007
Topics Discussed: Gardner Family History, Writing Poetry, Origin of the Poem/Song "Sierry Petes," and Billy Simon.
Oral History
Interviewee: Elladean (Hays) Bittner (b. 02/01/2019 – d. xx/xx/xxxx)
Interviewer: Sylvia Neely
Audio Number: 1437A
Duration: 01:02:06
Date: September 18, 2002
Topics Discussed: Peeples Valley, Hays Family, Genung Family, Peeples Valley Schools, Vulture and Congress Mines, Cattle Shipping, Hays Cattle Company and Minotto Family.
Westerners Presentation
Title: Frontier Days Past
Presenter: Gail Gardner & Bill Simon
Audio Number: 25A (Side 1)
Duration: 00:45:26
Date of Presentation: June 27, 1969
Oral History
Interviewee: Leonard Black (b. 02/12/1904 – d. 11/16/2007)
Interviewer: Sylvia Neely
Audio Number: 1505
Duration: 01:01:10
Date: September 19, 2005
Topics Discussed: Ranching, Yavapai County Cowboy Life, 7V Ranches, Skull Valley, Yarnell, Peeples Valley, Williamson Valley and Yolo Ranch.