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    • 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...
    • Webb Family History, Part 2

    • Webb Family History, Part 2

    • Webb, June and Cherie

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

    • Part 2: June and Cherie raised a family of 9 children. While Cherie raised kids, gardened, canned and raised beef and pigs, etc. June was busy in the woods with the family's sawmill operation. As June's brothers would acquire various timber...
    • 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...
    • Russell Family History, Part 1

    • Russell Family History, Part 1

    • Russell, David

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Apache County (Ariz.); Navajo County (Ariz.); Biography; Timber--Arizona; McNary (Ariz.)--History; African American families--Arizona--McNary

    • David Russell tells of how he came to the saw mill town of McNary, Arizona as a teenager, and how he worked his way into a variety of positions in the mills, in the forest, and on the Apache Railroad until he retired a supervisor and an active...
    • 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...
    • 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...
    • Dysterheft Family History

    • Dysterheft Family History

    • Dysterheft, Georgia

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Apache County (Ariz.); Navajo County (Ariz.); Biography; Dysterheft, Arnold H., 1911 - 1999; Dysterheft, Georgia C.; Medical doctors -- Arizona; Hospitals -- Arizona; McNary (Ariz.) -- History; Historical societies

    • Georgia gives the history of the Dr. Arnold H. Dysterheft family, of his life's work at the McNary, Arizona Hospital, a sawmill town that was once the social-economic hub of Northeastern Arizona. She credits him for his efforts to establish a...
    • Guenther Family History, Part 1

    • Guenther Family History, Part 1

    • Guenther, Minnie

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Biography; Missionaries -- Arizona --Biography; Native Americans; Lutheran minister; Navajo County (Ariz.); White Mountain Apache Indians -- Arizona; Guenther, Edgar E.; Guenther, Minnie

    • This interview of Minnie Guenther, the wife of Edgar Guenther, an early Lutheran missionary to the Apache Indians, was recorded in 1977. She gives a background of her German immigrant upbringing, of meeting her future husband, and their subsequent...
    • Cooley Family History

    • Cooley Family History

    • Penrod, Lillie Cooley

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Arizona History 20th Century; Apache County (Ariz.); Navajo County (Ariz.); Biography; Cooley, Corydon E. (Corydon Eliphalet Cooley) 1836 - 1917; White Mountain Apache Indians -- Arizona; Show Low (Ariz.); Clark,...

    • This rare and priceless interview is of Lilly Cooley Penrod, a daughter of Corydon E. Cooley. It was conducted by Glenn West and Byde Amos, her grand nephew and nephew, in 1966. She gives a clear, never before glimpsed, and intimate account of...
    • 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...
    • Gardner Frost Family History, Part 2

    • Gardner Frost Family History, Part 2

    • 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

    • Part 2, Nella continues to talk about her father's contributions to the area, of his annual work as the cook feeding hundreds of Navopache Electric Co-op's customers and other community groups. She describes his full life to his death. Then she...
    • 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...
    • 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...
    • 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 2

    • Castillo Velasquez Family History Part 2

    • 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 2: Carmen Castillo married Rudy Velasquez at St. Anthony's Catholic Church in McNary. Rudy is older than Carmen, so had already been to the Korean War when they met on a blind date. Rudy's family had been living at Fort Wingate, New Mexico...

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