Oral History
Interviewee:  J. [Jackson] Manford Cartwright (b. 05/15/1866 - d. 04/12/1962)
Interviewer:  Charles U. Pickrell
Audio Number: 717
Duration: 01:03:05
Date:  November 10, 1961
Aquistion Number: 2021.049
Topics Discussed: Cartwright family; traveling by cover wagon from Coles County, Illnois to California; Cattle Ranching Business and running the Cartwright Ranch in Cave Creek, Arizona.
 

Oral History
Interviewee:  Esther Lee (Cherry) Henderson (b. 03/16/1910 – d. 12/10/2009)
Interviewer:  Mona McCroskey
Audio Number:  1174-1175
Duration: 01:12:07
Date:  May 15, 1997
Topics Discussed:  Henderson family history; Camp Verde, Arizona c.1915; Cherry Creek, Arizona c.1915; rodeo at Dewey,  Arizona; ranching in Dewey

Oral History
Interviewee: Irene Margret (Arredondo) Casteneda (b. 06/28/1940 – d.01/06/2017)
Interviewer:  Sylvia Neely
Audio Number:  1539 
Duration: 01:02:18
Date:  January 10, 2008
Topics Discussed: Prescott's Mexican-American history, Prescott schools in the 1940s, mining in Bagdad, Arizona

Westerners Presentation
Title:  Women of Yavapai County Ranching: Panel Presentation - Esther Henderson, Joyce White & Betty Aitken
Presenter:  Esther (Perry) Henderson & Mary Melcher as Moderator
Audio Number:  752 (Side 1)
Duration:  01:08:16
Date of Presentation:  August 1, 1990

Oral History
Interviewee:  Dorothy (Crozier) Chafin  (b.11/18/1914 – d. 10/26/2006)
Interviewer:  Mona McCroskey
Audio Number:  886
Duration: 00:28:22
Date:  October 9, 1991
Topics Discussed:  William Grounds family 1875-1932, Crozier family history 1875-1932, Dorothy Chafin's civic, political and community life in Prescott

Oral History
Interviewee:  Raymond "Ray" Henderson (b. 04/08/1916 – d. 02/06/2010)
Interviewer:  Sylvia Neely
Audio Number:  1214
Duration: 00:59:12
Date:  March 25, 1998
Topics Discussed:  Director of Prescott High School band and orchestra (1949-1977), music instructor at Prescott Unified School District, Prescott school history

Edith (Magnusson) Griner, first daughter and third child of James Peter and Marie (Pierson) Magnusson, was born on May 23, 1887, at Sandy, Salt Lake County, Utah. In that same year, her parents came to the Arizona Territory, where her father found employment in the Goldfield Mine, at the base of the Superstition Mountains, east of Mesa, Maricopa County, Arizona Territory. The family lived in a tent at the mining camp, and Edith's bed was the top of an old trunk.

By Yavapai Prescott Indian Tribe

This is Part One of an article on Yavapai Indian scouts who served with the U. S. Army in the late 1800s.  [Note:  Last year there was a Days Past article on Apache Scouts who won the Medal of Honor.  That article misidentified Sergeant Rowdy, a heroic Yavapai Scout, and did not cover the exploits of other Yavapai Scouts.  This article picks up the story of the Yavapai.]

Ophelia (Peterson) Close was born on July 14, 1877, in Longview, Gregg County, Texas, the daughter of George W. Peterson (1820-1898) and Lucinda Jeffrey (1837-?). George was a farmer from North Carolina and Lucinda came from Georgia. The family lived in Hallsville, Harrison County, Texas. All Ophelia's siblings were born in Texas; they were Thomas, Angie, Charlie, John, Shaw, and Effie, Ophelia being the youngest child.

By Sally Bates

“Cowboy” poetry is as old as the trail driving days following the Civil War when young men working horseback in the great American West brought with them elements of the British ballad tradition. Using the form of poetry they had learned to recite in school, kitchen, or parlor they recorded events and passed on traditions. Favorite songs and stories about experiences on the cattle drives or ranches became their unique way of sharing experiences — past and present. It was not strange to hear many different versions of old ballads revised to hold new personal experiences. Nor would it be unusual for them to write lines to old songs and spirituals using the rhyme and meter presented therein.