Oral History
Interviewee: Leslie "Les" Martin Wood (b. 05/03/1902 – d. 12/08/2000)
Interviewer: Mona McCroskey
Audio Number: 996a & 996b
Duration: 01:28:19
Date: January 18, 1994
Topics Discussed: Tom and John Powers; Bowie-Globe freight road, c. 1910; wheatfields; Colonel Hooker; Chiracauhua Cattle Company; Salt River & Tonto Creek settlement, c. 1905.
Oral History
Interviewee: Eleanor L. Pugh (b. 09/28/1925 – d. 12/04/2018)
Interviewer: Sylvia Neely
Audio Number: 1303-1304
Duration: 02:02:47
Date: January 20, 2000
Topics Discussed: Fort Whipple Veterans Administration (VA) Center, Smoki People organization and Museum, Smoki Snake Dance Controversy, 128 N. Mt. Vernon Street Residence - also called Idylrest Nursing Home in 1960s, Prescott Businesses, Junior Bonner Movie, Civil Workers Administration,Neural Site at Willow Lake & Perry Mesa.
NOTE: There in more information in the Yavapai Heritage Foundation Collection, MS-38 regarding the 128 N. Mt. Vernon Street Residence when it was a nursing home called Idylrest in the 1960s.
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Interviewee: William Fred Wood (b. 07/11/1897 – d. 12/15/1975)
Interviewer:
Audio Number: 42
Duration: 01:03:22
Date: April 18, 1972
Topics Discussed: Birth and family, work on an Indian reservation and the Empire Ranch, cow punching in Arizona
Oral History
Interviewee: William "Bill" H. Puntenney (b. 10/11/1919 – d. 03/17/1999)
Interviewer: Mona McCroskey
Audio Number: 854
Duration: 00:43:42
Date: August 26, 1991
Topics Discussed: Family history, ranching Yavapai County 1920s, cowboy life, Williamson Valley, Jim Hazel family, military career, Yaqui Ordunez
Oral History
Interviewee: Helen (Hunt) Woodburn (b. 05/31/1941 – d. xx/xx/xxxx)
Interviewer: Mona McCroskey
Audio Number: 1177
Duration: 00:17:17
Date: July 1, 1997
Topics Discussed: Sam Crozier family; Robert Stringfield family; John Hunt, lion hunter
Oral History
Interviewee: James Elwin "Bud" Purtymun
Interviewer: Mona McCroskey
Audio Number: 1443-1444
Duration: 01:48:56
Date: November 25, 2002
Topics Discussed: Purtymun and Howard families, orchards in Oak Creek
Oral History
Interviewee: Michael "Mick" Woodcock (b. 09/09/1946 – d. xx/xx/xxxx)
Interviewer: Sylvia Neely
Audio Number: 1595
Duration: 01:01:20
Date: September 12, 2012
Topics Discussed: Sharlot Hall Museum Chief Curator of Collections 1979-2021
Oral History
Interviewee: Betty B. Ramuz
Interviewer: Mona McCroskey
Audio Number: 819-820
Duration: 01:28:56
Date: April 26, 1991
Topics Discussed: Ramuz family history, rodeo parade, Miller Valley, Pancho Villa, Arizona Power Company in Cottonwood 1919-1925, Yavapai County Poor Farm, St. Joseph Academy, Tall Pines Cabins
Westerners Presentation
Title: Fort Whipple: A Walk Through Whipple
Presenter: Mick Woodcock
Audio Number: 702
Duration: 00:41:54
Date of Presentation: February 7, 1986
Westerners Presentation
Title: Elisha Marcus Reavis: Hermit of the Superstitions
Presenter: Peyton Reavis
Audio Number: 731A (Side 1)
Duration: 00:43:19
Date of Presentation: January 1, 1970