Oral History
Interviewee:  Marie (Anfinson) Watson (b. 06/06/1945 - d. xx/xx/xxxx) 
Interviewer:  Sylvia Neely 
Audio Number:  1618
Duration:  00:59:14
Date:  November 3, 2015 
Topics Discussed:  Watson's personal and family history, memories as the City Clerk of Prescott in the 1970s. 

Oral History
Interviewee:   Steven "Steve"  Walker (b. 06/02/1954 - d. xx/xx/xxxx)
Interviewer:  Sylvia Neely
Audio Number:  1624
Duration:  00:44:39
Date:  August 26, 2016
Topics Discussed:  Job experience at Yavapai College 

Oral History
Interviewee:  Deborah "Deb" Elizabeth (Templin) Walker
Interviewer:  Sylvia Neely 
Audio Number:  1617
Duration:  01:01:36
Date:  August 10, 2015 
Topics Discussed:  Templin family history, Prescott in the 1950s, Prescott schools

Oral History
Interviewee:  Helen C. (Henderson) Cain
Interviewer:  Sylvia Neely
Audio Number: 1616
Duration:  1:01:30
Date:  May 27, 2014
Topics Discussed:  Ester & Perry Henderson family; early life in Humboldt & Dewey, Arizona;  ranching life and ranch history

By Bob Baker

In the early 1800s, Yavapai and Apache Indians inhabited the wilderness that became the Arizona Territory. Only a few frontiersmen dared travel there to trap beaver, hunt game and explore the area. Perhaps the earliest of them was Pauline Weaver.

When Weaver arrived in Arizona in 1830 from California, he had traveled all over California trapping beaver and trading with Indian tribes. While he was primarily a trapper, he was also a prospector who recognized “pay dirt” (gold deposits), having discovered several placer gold deposits in California.

By Eric Jacobsen

The Millers had ongoing struggles with Kels Nickell, a sheep farmer accused by the Millers of letting his sheep graze on their Wyoming land. On July 18, 1901, Willie Nickell, the fourteen-year-old son of Kels, was found murdered on the Nickell land. An investigation followed while the range violence continued.

In August 1901, Kels Nickell was shot and nearly eighty of his sheep were killed. Deputy U.S. Marshal Joe LeFors arrested Jim Miller and his sons for the crime, although bail freed them the next day.

By Eric Jacobson

Much has been written and filmed about a complex and colorful cowboy named Tom Horn. Was he the upstanding citizen he claimed to be, or was he the criminal portrayed in print and film? Even today, people either admire him as part of a declining American frontier (like Butch Cassidy) or despise him as a hired killer of at least four men and a fourteen-year-old boy.

By Kay Lauster

Fred Harvey became a restaurant entrepreneur as a young man, beginning with his arrival in New York City from London in 1853. In New York he worked in a variety of restaurant jobs. Moving west, he opened the first of his own restaurants in St. Louis, MO. He developed his connection with the Santa Fe Railroad through various entrepreneurial ventures, with the railroad building restaurants and hotels and Fred supplying the furnishings and food service and running them and managing their operations, along with the railroad dining cars, along the Santa Fe line from Chicago to Los Angeles. As the Santa Fe Railroad moved west, so did Harvey’s ideas.
 

By Marjory J. Sente

Mary Page Kendrick traveled many miles during her life to get to Middleton, Arizona Territory. Born in Louth, England in 1854, she was the eldest of ten children. As an adult she moved to New Zealand to teach English. There she met and married an American, Fredrick P. Kendrick, on New Year’s Day, 1880. Born in New York, Fred was a ship carpenter who worked in the Far East, South America and the South Seas. After having three children in New Zealand, the Kendricks moved to Massachusetts in 1884. During their eleven years there, four more children were born. Two more were added to the family after coming to Arizona in 1895.

By Worcester P. Bong

Lights, camera, action! Imagine a plane coming over the horizon and landing on a highway. On April 2, 1993 cameras were rolling as a biplane landed on Arizona Highway 69 just south of Mayer’s iconic smokestack. This scene was one of many filmed for the television series “Harts of the West” starring Beau Bridges, his father Lloyd Bridges and Harley Jane Kozak.