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    • Hansen Family History, Part 1

    • Hansen Family History, Part 1

    • Hansen, Don L.

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Apache County (Ariz.); Biography; Navajo County (Ariz.); Mormon Pioneers -- Arizona --Biography; Lakeside (Ariz.); Crook's Trail (Ariz.); Roads -- Arizona; Automobiles -- Arizona -- White Mountains -- 1900's;...

    • In Part 1, Don L. Hansen gives a brief history of his ancestors. He was born in 1900 to Niels S. and Rosebelle Gardner Hansen in Snowflake. His great-grandparents Hans and Sophia Hansen Sr. and her sister immigrated from Denmark to the United...
    • Hansen Family History, Part 2

    • Hansen Family History, Part 2

    • Hansen, Don L.

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Apache County (Ariz.); Biography; Navajo County (Ariz.); Mormon Pioneers -- Arizona --Biography; Lakeside (Ariz.); Crook's Trail (Ariz.); Roads -- Arizona; Automobiles -- Arizona -- White Mountains -- 1900's;...

    • In Part 2, Don L. Hansen is 21 years old and now an adult applying for his own homestead of 90 acres. He would work at the sawmill during the day and then plow his fields by moonlight. Then for seven years he worked for his father's dairy. In...
    • Cooley Family History, Part 1

    • Cooley Family History, Part 1

    • Cooley, Anthony

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Apache County (Ariz.); Civil War in the West; Biography; Cooley, Corydon E. (Corydon Eliphalet), 1836-1917; Crook, General (George), 1829-1890; Navajo County (Ariz.); Show Low (Ariz.)--History; White Mountain...

    • Anthony Cooley tells the history of his famous great grandfather, Corydon E. Cooley, through documentation and family stories. He traces his arrival to the West prior to the Civil War, records of business enterprises in Colorado and New Mexico,...
    • McNary & Pinetop-Lakeside History, Part 2

    • McNary & Pinetop-Lakeside History, Part 2

    • Butler, Diana Wilson

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Apache County (Ariz.); Navajo County (Ariz.); Bankers -- Arizona --Biography; McNary, James Graham, b. 1877; Timber -- Arizona;

    • Diana Wilson Butler, grand daughter of James G. McNary, tells the family's history and stories that were passed down in the family of their affluent lifestyle, and their emphasis on education, in contrast to their ardent love of the country, the...
    • McNeil & Lee Family History, Part 5

    • McNeil & Lee Family History, Part 5

    • Lee, Esther McNeil

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

    • Part 5: Esther was 13 years old when she first met Lawrence Lee. She had gone to stay with one of her sisters who lived at Copper Glance in Miami, Arizona, where several other White Mountain families lived. Lawrence stayed at Robber's Roost and...
    • McNeil & Lee Family History, Part 8

    • McNeil & Lee Family History, Part 8

    • Lee, Esther McNeil

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

    • Part 8: Esther and son Raymond remember how the community entertained itself during the hard times of the Great Depression under isolated conditions. Through it all, the family bond was tight and was well seasoned with light-hearted teasing. ...
    • Porter Family History, Part 2

    • Porter Family History, Part 2

    • Porter, Zina

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

    • Zina Porter continues her story at the time of her husband Wilmer's death, and of a trip back to Mexico with friends and family in search of the mountain where Joseph Smith reported receiving the Book of Mormon. She ends with an exhortation for...
    • Russell Family History, Part 2

    • Russell Family History, Part 2

    • Russell, David

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

    • In Part 2, David Russell continues describing McNary and the fringe communities of Pinetop, Lakeside, Show Low, and the White Mountain Apache Reservation, also involved in the McNary timber industry in the 1940's and later. But now, he speaks as...
    • Russell Family History, Part 3

    • Russell Family History, Part 3

    • Russell, Verna Mae and Russell, David

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

    • Verna Mae tells of how she came to McNary, Arizona as a child. She describes the typical African-American quarters, the African-American and Indian schools she attended, the churches and restaurants, and the jobs she held in the logging and...
    • McNary & Pinetop-Lakeside History, Part 3

    • McNary & Pinetop-Lakeside History, Part 3

    • Butler, Diana Wilson

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

    • Diana Wilson Butler describes her mother Martha McNary Wilson Chilcothe as a feisty teenager when the family came to the Sitgreaves National Forest and White Mountain Apache Reservation in order to develop the timber industry of the area. Martha...
    • 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...
    • Cooley Family History, Part 2

    • Cooley Family History, Part 2

    • Cooley, Anthony

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

    • In Part 2, Anthony discusses the history of the Cooley Ranch, of Corydon E. Cooley's affiliations with Marion Clark and the Huning brothers, and the early Mormons. He gives in detail various versions of the legend of the card game that named the...
    • 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,...
    • Fish Family History, Part 4

    • Fish Family History, Part 4

    • Fish, Ferrell

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

    • Part 2, Ferrell Fish continues to remember the early days of Lakeside and of his youth. He gives his impressions of attending school in Lakeside and gives special recognition to teachers who inspired him to go on to college. His own personal...
    • McNeil & Lee Family History, Part 2

    • McNeil & Lee Family History, Part 2

    • Lee, Esther McNeil

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

    • Part 2: Esther Lee tells of how her grandfather, John McNeil, and how his families moved to Forestdale before there was a Show Low, living among the Indians on the White Mountain Apache Reservation. John McNeil built his home without access to...
    • Johnson Family History, Part 3

    • Johnson Family History, Part 3

    • Johnson, Raymond and Thomas, Martha

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

    • Part 3: Raymond Johnson graduated from high school during the Korean War. He was drafted shortly thereafter and served in the South Pacific. After he returned he went on a mission trip to South America. He returned in 1961, went to college and...
    • McNeil & Lee Family History, Part 3

    • McNeil & Lee Family History, Part 3

    • Lee, Esther McNeil

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

    • Part 3: Esther tells the story of her birth. Her father Daniel was building the family a home in Lakeside when he was called away. Emma was pregnant, but was driving a horse and skidding logs while he was gone. She went into labor and while the...
    • Perry Family History, Part 3

    • Perry Family History, Part 3

    • Perry, Edgar

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

    • Part 3: After Edgar and Corrine Perry returned to Arizona, he began teaching for the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Edgar worked for Arizona Tourism for a time, traveling around the country and throughout Europe, tempura painting now, instead of...
    • McNeil & Lee Family History, Part 4

    • McNeil & Lee Family History, Part 4

    • Lee, Esther McNeil

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

    • Part 4: Esther continues telling stories about her childhood as an orphan, the people she lived with and the community she depended upon. She paid her way in homes by doing chores such as housework, chopping wood, gathering the eggs and feeding...
    • McNeil & Lee Family History, Part 6

    • McNeil & Lee Family History, Part 6

    • Lee, Esther McNeil

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

    • Part 6: Esther stayed to live with her grandmother Mary Ann McNeil after the funeral of John L. Fish. She started going to high school in Snowflake. The disruption of having her there traveling back and forth to school irritated her grandmother,...

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