Oral History
Interviewee: George A. and Rink Goswick (b. 06/08/1919 – d. 04/09/1997)
Interviewer: Mona McCroskey
Audio Number: 833
Duration: 00:52:03
Date: April 8, 1991
Topics Discussed: Family history, five generations of ranching, lion hunting, Cherry Creek, sheriff's posse
Oral History
Interviewee: Francies Valentine "Bud" Brown (b. 04/14/1903 - d. 02/06/2001)
Interviewer: Claudette Simpson
Audio Number: 715
Duration: 01:34:35
Date: June 1987
Acquistion Number: ACC# 2021.050
Topics Discussed: Bud Brown's Personal History, Brown Family History, Living Life as a Cowboy, Flagstaff Mules, Teaching Career in Pheonix area, Bud Brown's Barn & Hayrides in Phoenix area, Friendly Pines Camp, Becoming a Wagon Master & Bicentennial Covered Wagon, Will Reese, Jack & Bebe (Brown) May.
In the early 1930s a group of cowboys working as mule wranglers and tourist guides at the Grand Canyon National Park performed traditional cowboy songs, poems, and fiddle music for tourists. They led tourists groups on mules down the Bright Angel Trail to the Colorado River and back in one day and in the evenings entertained guests at the El Tovar Hotel and later at the Bright Angel Lodge.
Concert Recording
Performer: Grand Canyon Cowboy Band
Producer: Warren Miller, Sharlot Hall Museum
Recorder: James Griffith, Southwest Folklore Center
Audio Number: 160
Duration: 01:28:20
Date: August 31, 1985
Content: Reunion concert of the last four surviving band members, Marvin Bennett, John Bradley, Sam Fenner and L.H. “Slim” Kite, singing their cowboy songs and poetry.
Westerners Presentation
Title: Covered Wagon Train in Reverse: The Bicentennial Wagon
Presenter: Bud Brown
Audio Number: 110B (Side 2)
Duration: 01:00:11
Date of Presentation: February 4, 1977
National Broadcast Company's (NBC) "in progress" radio news program regarding the rescue efforts of WWII Army airmen Maurice Cruickshank, Charles Goldblum and Roy Embank who each parachuted out of their malfunctioning airplane bomber, while flying over the Grand Canyon during a night time training flight on June 29, 1944. These three men ended up in the Grand Canyon, which prompted a search and rescue operation.
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Interviewee: Garth Arthur "Brownie" Brown (b. 07/20/1910 – d. 10/18/2008)
Interviewer: Mona McCroskey
Audio Number: 1324-1325
Duration: 01:20:33
Date: June 28, 2000
Topics Discussed: OX Ranch, Congress, Arizona; Wickenburg c. 1940s, Porter locomotive, Congress Mine, Hillside Mine c. 1930s, Prohibition
Westerners Presentation
Title: Folklore Along Colorado River
Presenter: Byrd Howell Granger, Ph.D.
Audio Number: 30
Duration: 00:57:17
Date of Presentation: November 8, 1968
Oral History
Interviewee: Mary Isabelle "Brownie" (Fuller) Brown (b. 02/27/1907 – d. 10/07/1997)
Interviewer: Pioneer Production Staff Member
Audio Number: 1155
Duration: 01:01:50
Date: May 26, 1989
Acquistion Number: ACC#2021.044
Topics Discussed: Isabelle "Brownie" Brown discusses her childhood in the mountain forests of Pine and Long Valley, Arizona, growing up on a farm/ranch, Fuller Family History & her husband Bud Brown.
Oral History
Interviewee: Romaldo Granillo (b. 06/12/1926 – d. 09/04/2013)
Interviewer: Mona McCroskey
Audio Number: 1277
Duration: 01:40:26
Date: January 7, 1999
Topics Discussed: Jerome, Arizona, 1930-1945; Marler's Furniture Store; Barrows Furniture Store; & the Chateau Restaurant.
Westerners Presentation
Title: Linguistics of Western Language
Presenter: James I. Brown
Audio Number: 153B (Side 2)
Duration: 00:34:07
Date of Presentation: February 3, 1984


