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Jun 01, 2006

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

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Mar 16, 2007

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.

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Oct 13, 2009

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.

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Jun 01, 2011

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

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Mar 14, 2007

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.

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May 25, 2011

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

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Mar 13, 2007

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.

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May 18, 2011

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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Mar 12, 2007

Oral History
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

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May 15, 2011

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

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