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    • 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...
    • 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...
    • 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...
    • 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...
    • 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...
    • Penrod Family History

    • Penrod Family History

    • Penrod, Sue Jacobs

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Apache County (Ariz.); Navajo County (Ariz.); Biography; Educators -- Arizona -- Biography; Mormon Pioneers -- Arizona -- Biography;

    • Sue tells the stories passed down through her family of the history of Pinetop, Arizona from the earliest Penrod family settling the area to the recent past. She shares her childhood memories of growing up, the school, her friends and relatives...
    • Buell Family History, Part 2

    • Buell Family History, Part 2

    • Buell, Ed and Buell, Ted

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Apache County (Ariz.); Navajo County (Ariz.); Biography; Educators -- Arizona -- Biography; Pinetop-Lakeside (Ariz.) -- History; Holbrook (Ariz.) -- History; Fort Huachuca (Ariz.); Whiteriver (Ariz.);

    • In Part 2 Ed and Ted Buell continue remembering growing up in Pinetop, Arizona during WWII, and of attending high school in nearby McNary, Arizona. When Ed graduated, the Korean War was on, so he enlisted in the U.S. Air Force and became a flight...
    • Cooley Family History, Part 5

    • Cooley Family History, Part 5

    • Cooley, Anthony

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

    • Anthony Cooley tells of a period in his life where he lived in the Kinishba Indian ruins at Fort Apache, on the White Mountain Indian Reservation. He first gives us a brief history of staying with his father there in 1963, and his job as a tour...
    • 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...
    • 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...
    • Rhoton Family History, Part 2

    • Rhoton Family History, Part 2

    • Rhoton, Kent

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

    • Part 2: Lakeside schoolchildren didn't go to the Academy in Snowflake, but had their own high school. Lakeside schools were very small, so Kent remembers easily each teacher by name. His oldest brother was one of them. Kent interned for...
    • 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...
    • 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...
    • Wilbur Family History, Part 2

    • Wilbur Family History, Part 2

    • Wilbur, Tilden and Wilbur, Carol

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Apache County (Ariz.); Navajo County (Ariz.); Biography; McNary (Ariz.)--History; Pinetop--Lakeside (Ariz.); Grocery stores--1950-2000; School boards--Arizona;

    • Part 2: Tilden and Carol describe McNary as it once was. They then give the history of their stores, Wilbur's Markets, and a businessman's perception of the changing culture in the White Mountains as it evolved from the timber industry to that of...
    • McNary & Pinetop-Lakeside History, Part 1

    • McNary & Pinetop-Lakeside History, Part 1

    • Butler, Diana Wilson

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Apache County (Ariz.); Navajo County (Ariz.); Biography; McNary, James Graham, b. 1877; McNary, (Ariz.) -- History; Timber -- Ariz.; Segregation; Railroads -- Arizona -- History; Apache and Sitgreaves National...

    • Diana Wilson Butler is the grand daughter of James G. McNary, the banker who invested in the timber industry of Northeastern Arizona in the early to mid-1900s. She describes the landscape and culture of the sawmill town of McNary, Arizona, and the...
    • Guenther Family History, Part 2

    • Guenther Family History, Part 2

    • Guenther, Minnie

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Apache County (Ariz.); Navajo County (Ariz.); Biography; Native Americans; White Mountain Apache Indians -- Arizona;

    • In Part 2, Minnie Guenther begins by describing her first impressions of the White Mountain Apache culture. She remembers their early attempts to reach out to school children, their first baptism, and her children being born without medical or...
    • Porter Family History, Part 1

    • Porter Family History, Part 1

    • Porter, Zina

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Apache County (Ariz.); Navajo County (Ariz.); Biography; Polygamy--Religious aspects -- Mormon Church -- History

    • Zina Scott Porter was born in 1904 in Mexico. Her grandparents on both sides had moved there after the Manifesto was passed, in order to keep their polygamous families intact. Zina remembers growing up in Mexico, tells of floods, her education,...
    • Velasquez Riley Family History, Part 2

    • Velasquez Riley Family History, Part 2

    • 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 2: Mary Velasquez grew up neighbors with her future husband, Peter Riley. She was working, cleaning the hospital when he returned from school and they met again at a dance. She candidly tells of their marriage, then explains the Apache...

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