Westerners Presentation
Title: Las Vegas Ranch BBQ
Presenter:
Audio Number: 730
Duration: 00:58:27
Date of Presentation: May 26, 1989
Description:
NOTE: The audio for this presentation is of poor quality
Oral History
Interviewee: Gussie (Green) Wood (b. 05/10/1894 – d. 05/01/1996)
Interviewer: Julia Day [Instructor at Yavapai College]
Audio Number: 166
Duration: 01:01:16
Date: 1979
Acquisition Number: ACC# 2021.043
Topics Discussed: This interview was conducted for a Yavapai College class taught by Julie Day. In it, Gussie Wood discusses the early days in Bisbee, Arizona; Phoenix 1900-1912 and Prescott c.1912.
Sharlot Hall Museum Lecture
Title: Chinese In Arizona
Presenter: Professor Quintan Priest - University of Arizona
Audio Number: 739
Date: October 22, 1989
Duration: 00:28:44
Acquisition Number: ACC# 2022.002
Topics Discussed: Chinese Immigrants in Arizona, Brief Chinese History, Language, Customs, and Chinese Occupations
NOTE: This tape and lecture stops abruptly and mid sentence.
Oral History
Interviewee: Richard Croxdale Prince (b. 06/28/1921 – d. 04/13/2009)
Interviewer: Mona McCroskey
Audio Number: 962
Duration: 00:51:53
Date: February 24, 1993
Topics Discussed: Family history, Stringfield Ranch, The Arizona Power Company (TAPCO)-Irving Plant, Apaches at Irving, Prescott weather in the 1930s
Oral History
Interviewee: Leslie "Les" Martin Wood (b. 05/03/1902 – d. 12/08/2000)
Interviewer: Mona McCroskey
Audio Number: 994-996
Duration: 03:04:35
Date: November 23, 1993
Topics Discussed: Wood family history; cowboys; sheep and angora goat ranching; water witching or dowsing; smelter employee & range management, c. 1920s.
Oral History
Interviewee: Doris Marie (Jorgensen) Purviance (b. 10/25/1910 – d. 12/10/2004)
Interviewer: Mona McCroskey
Audio Number: 1107
Duration: 00:39:59
Date: December 20, 1995
Topics Discussed: Prescott Community Hospital Auxiliary 1950-1995, Chaplaincy at Community Hospital, Community Hospital move 1964, White Spar Road c. 1940
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