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    • Larson Family History, Part 3

    • Larson Family History, Part 3

    • Larson, Augusta

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Navajo County (Ariz.); Biography; Lakeside (Ariz.); Mormon pioneers -- Arizona; Mormon women; Educators -- 20th Century -- Biography; Mormon women--Political activity--United States--History.

    • In Part 3, After Augusta Larson describes other early Lakeside residents, she briefly describes her career as an Arizona State Legislator.
    • Cooley Family History, Part 3

    • Cooley Family History, Part 3

    • Cooley, Anthony

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Biography; Cooley, Corydon E. (Corydon Eliphalet), 1836-1917; Navajo County (Ariz.); White Mountain Apache Tribe of the Fort Apache Reservation, Arizona; Post offices -- Arizona, 1910-1940; Educators, Indian; Indian...

    • In Part 3, Anthony Cooley continues the Cooley family's history into the next generation. He lists the children of Corydon E. and Mollie and Cora, and briefly summarizes their lives before branching out to give the details of the life of his own...
    • Cooley Family History, Part 4

    • Cooley Family History, Part 4

    • Cooley, Anthony

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Navajo County (Ariz.); White Mountain Apache Tribe of the Fort Apache Reservation; Indian traders -- Arizona; Post offices -- Arizona -- 1910 -- 1940; Kinishba Site (Ariz.);

    • In Part 4, Anthony now tells us of his parents' generation, and of his parents marrying after his father returned from World War II. He ends with his own early childhood memories growing up as a "Cibecue White Boy," laughs about his very brief...
    • McNary & Pinetop-Lakeside History, Part 4

    • McNary & Pinetop-Lakeside History, Part 4

    • Butler, Diana Wilson

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Apache County (Ariz.); Navajo County (Ariz.); Biography;

    • In this last part, Diana Wilson Butler describes her own history as an educator and of the history of the schools of McNary and Pinetop-Lakeside, called the Blue Ridge School District. She charts the decline of Maverick and McNary and the...
    • Jacobs Family History

    • Jacobs Family History

    • Jacobs, Sue Penrod and Jacobs, Jake

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Apache County (Ariz.); Navajo County (Ariz.); Biography; McNary (Ariz.) -- History; Pinetop (Ariz.); Railroads -- Arizona -- History; Lodging-houses--United States--History--19th century

    • Jake Jacobs came to Arizona August 1953 to help his in-laws move to Chandler with full intentions of returning to Indiana. While working in a service station to get enough cash to return, he met the Superintendent of McNary Schools, who was...
    • Larson Family History, Part 4

    • Larson Family History, Part 4

    • Larson, Jeff

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Navajo County (Ariz.); Biography; Educators, Indian; Arizona State Legislature; Mormons -- Emigration and Immigration -- 19th Century; Mormon Women -- Political Activity -- United States --History; Mormon Pioneers...

    • Jeff Larson tells of his great grandfather Mons Larson's family emigrating from Sweden to the United States for the purpose of settling as Mormons in Arizona. They were in the first group from Utah to encounter the Grand Canyon in Northern...
    • Peterson Family History

    • Peterson Family History

    • Peterson, Jack

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Apache County (Ariz.); Navajo County (Ariz.); Biography; Lakeside (Ariz.); Mormons--Arizona--History;

    • Joseph and Amanda Andelin Peterson moved from Utah in 1898, to teach at the new Academy in Snowflake, Arizona. In 1906 the young family was one of the first families to move to Lakeside. A year later they homesteaded in the area their grandson...
    • Magill Family History

    • Magill Family History

    • Magill, Mittie

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Apache County (Ariz.); Navajo County (Ariz.); Biography; McNary (Ariz.) -- History; McNary, James Graham; Logging -- Arizona; Maverick (Ariz.);

    • Mittie's ancestors came to Arizona to ranch on the Blue River in the late 1800s. Her parents met when her father was a bronco rider and her mother was living on her grandparents' ranch. After they married they traveled around Arizona and western...
    • Gardner Frost Family History, Part 1

    • Gardner Frost Family History, Part 1

    • Frost, Nella

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Apache County (Ariz.); Navajo County (Ariz.); Mormon Pioneers -- Arizona -- Biography; McNary (Ariz.) -- History; Lakeside (Ariz.); Pinetop (Ariz.); Railroads -- Arizona -- History; Electric cooperatives

    • Nella’s great grandmother Medlock immigrated to Salt Lake City, Utah from England, pushing a hand cart across the United States. Joseph Albert Lewis, Nella's great grandfather, was born in Utah. They met and married there, and then moved to...
    • Bittorf Family History, Part 1

    • Bittorf Family History, Part 1

    • Bittorf, Mary Ellen

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Navajo County (Ariz.); Biography; Pinetop (Ariz.); Pinetop Lakeside (Ariz.); Arizona Pharmacist; Blue Ridge Unified School District (Navajo County, Ariz.); Apache County (Ariz.);

    • Part 1 covers the Bittorf family history. Mary Ellen's parents came to Arizona during the Great Depression. She was born in Phoenix, but lived in Buckeye, Prescott, Casa Grande and Yuma with her parents as her father traveled with his career at...
    • Velasquez Riley Family History, Part 1

    • Velasquez Riley Family History, Part 1

    • Riley, Mary Velasquez

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Apache County (Ariz.); Navajo County (Ariz.); Biography; Scouts and Scouting--Arizona--Biography; Velasquez Family; Military Camps--Arizona; White Mountain Apache Tribe of Arizona; White Mountain Indian Reservation...

    • Part 1: Barry Richens interviewed Mary Velasquez Riley at the home of Mrs. Minnie Guenther February 18, 1977. Mrs. Riley gives us insight into the Apache culture as she tells her life story. Her father, Jesus Velasquez, was of Spanish descent...
    • Castillo Velasquez Family History Part 1

    • Castillo Velasquez Family History Part 1

    • Castillo Velasquez, Carmen

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Arizona History 20th Century; Apache County (Ariz.); Navajo County (Ariz.); Biography; McNary (Ariz.)--History; Mexicans--Arizona; Mexicans--Attitudes; Mexicans--Employment--Arizona;

    • Part 1: Carmen's parents, Ernest and Antonio Castillo, came to McNary from Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1949 to work as a welder on the trains for the Southwest Forest Industries. Carmen was just entering school. She describes the layout of the...
    • Perry Family History, Part 1

    • Perry Family History, Part 1

    • Perry, Edgar

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Apache County (Ariz.); Navajo County (Ariz.); McNary (Ariz.); White Mountain Apache of the Fort Apache Indian Reservation, Arizona; White Mountain Apache Indians--Biography; White Mountain Apache Indians--Arizona;...

    • Part 1: Edgar Perry is a History, Sociology and Anthropology scholar of his people, the White Mountain Apaches. He is also a renowned artist, vocalist, and terrific storyteller. He begins by telling us the story of the Athabaskan ancestors of the...
    • Amos, Cooley and West Family History, Part 1

    • Amos, Cooley and West Family History, Part 1

    • West, Glenn and West, Lonnie

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Apache County (Ariz.); Navajo County (Ariz.); Biography; Cooley, Corydon E. (Corydon Eliphalet), 1836-1917; White Mountain Apache of the Fort Apache Indian Reservation; Apache Indians--Wars; Apache Indians--Women;...

    • Part 1: Glenn and Lonnie West tell the history of their mother's grandparents, Corydon E. and Mollie Cooley. Corydon E. Cooley came west from Virginia when he was 20 years old, before the Civil War. He first moved to Santa Fe, but then followed...
    • Rhoton Family History, Part 1

    • Rhoton Family History, Part 1

    • Rhoton, Kent

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Apache County (Ariz.); Navajo County (Ariz.); Biography; Lakeside (Ariz.); Mormons--Arizona--History;

    • Part 1: In the 1880's, Kent's great grandfather Lorenzo Dow Rhoton and family immigrated from Kentucky, first to Taylor, and then to Shumway, Arizona. Lorenzo subsistence farmed and worked at Shumway's gristmill. Wilson Shumway was a Mormon...
    • Jordan Family History, Part 1

    • Jordan Family History, Part 1

    • Jordan, Jack; Jordan, Wanda; Jordan, Terry

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Apache County (Ariz.); Navajo County (Ariz.); McNary (Ariz.); Biography; Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest (Ariz.); Railroads--Arizona--History;

    • Part 1: Jack and Wanda Jordan come from a long line of railroad engineers. Here they and their daughter Terry give a brief history of the sawmill town of McNary, Arizona and of the Apache Railroad. In 1923, Jack's grandfather, Henry Jordan, was...
    • Baeza, Jo History, Part 1

    • Baeza, Jo History, Part 1

    • Baeza, Jo

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Arizona History 20th Century; Navajo County (Ariz.); Biography; Arizona Culture Keeper; Newspapers--Arizona; Pinetop, (Ariz.); U.S. Forest Service;

    • Part 1: Jo was born in Minnesota immersed in history and writing. Her great grandparents built one of the first hotels in the territory in 1854, encountering the Dakota-Sioux conflict on the edge of the frontier. Her grandfather Johnson was a...
    • Webb Family History, Part 1

    • Webb Family History, Part 1

    • Webb, June and Webb, Cherie

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Apache County (Ariz.); Navajo County (Ariz.); Mormons--Biography; Mormons--Arizona; Sawmills--Arizona; Lakeside (Ariz.); Mesa (Ariz.). High School;

    • Part 1: June's grandfather, Edward Milo Webb Jr., was a blacksmith in Nauvoo, Illinois when the Latter-day Saints' migration to Utah began. He then immigrated to Woodruff, Arizona, but because he was a polygamist, was soon forced to move on to...
    • Johnson Family History, Part 1

    • Johnson Family History, Part 1

    • Johnson, Raymond

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Apache County (Ariz.); Navajo County (Ariz.); Biography; Lakeside (Ariz.); Mormon pioneers -- Arizona -- biographies; Sawmills -- Arizona; Lakeside (Ariz.); White Mountains -- 1900's; Irrigation -- Arizona -- 1880's...

    • Part 1: Raymond Johnson tells of his grandparents migrating to Arizona Territory from Utah in the 1880's and settling in the White Mountains. Raymond's father Abe grew up on the Milk Ranch and went to school with the Cooley children. Raymond's...
    • McNeil & Lee Family History, Part 1

    • McNeil & Lee Family History, Part 1

    • Lee, Esther McNeil

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Apache County (Ariz.); Navajo County (Ariz.); Biography;

    • Part 1: The history of Esther Lee begins with her paternal grandfather, John McNeil, born on the Isle of Mann. He was a shoemaker and a violinist. At age 13, he went to sea and served on the same ship as his father and brother. When he was 21,...

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