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    • 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 1

    • Buell Family History, Part 1

    • Buell, Ed and Buell, Ted

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

    • Ted and Ed Buell tell about their mother's family coming to Bisbee, Arizona at the turn of the century and their father's arrival shortly after WWI. Alice Anderson was a young teacher when she met Ed Buell on a blind date in Globe, Arizona. The...
    • 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...
    • 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...
    • 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...
    • Monica Aissa Martinez

    • Monica Aissa Martinez

    • Raul H. Castro Institute and Latino Perspectives Magazine

    • Latina; Phoenix College; Teachers; Teachers--Arizona; Teachers--Arizona--Biography; Artists--Arizona--Biography; Artists; Painters;

    • Latino Perspectives Magazine 'Rincon del arte' interview with Monica Aissa Martinez.
    • "An Arizona Family"

    • "An Arizona Family"
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    • Frontier and pioneer life--Arizona; Outlaws--Arizona--Biography; Sheriffs--Arizona--Biography; Parker, Jim, 1865-1898; Ruffner, George

    • Presentation to Prescott Corral of Westerner's by Lester W. "Budge" Ruffner, "An Arizona Family," Jan 5, 1968 Length:38:01
    • Amos, Cooley and West Family History, Part 3

    • Amos, Cooley and West Family History, Part 3

    • West, Glenn and West, Lonnie

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Apache County (Ariz.); Navajo County (Ariz.); Biography; White Mountain Apache of the Fort Apache Indian Reservation; Apache Indians--Women; Lakeside (Ariz.); Sheep ranchers--Arizona--Biography; Amos family; West...

    • Part 3: When Earl and Elsie West married, because she had Indian tribal rights passed down from her grandmother Mollie Cooley, they started running cattle on the White Mountain Apache Reservation. They were given three allotments in Dry Valley...
    • 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...
    • 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...
    • Perry Family History, Part 2

    • Perry Family History, Part 2

    • 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 2: Even though Edgar Perry was McNary High School's Best Player when he graduated in 1959, he was denied a scholarship because he chose Grand Canyon College in Phoenix, a private Christian school. While attending college, he and his wife...
    • Owens Family History, 2006 August 29

    • Owens Family History, 2006 August 29

    • Owens, Moylen

    • Mormon Pioneers -- Arizona -- Biography, Owens family; Ranching -- Arizona -- History

    • Horsebreaking. MP3 Clip is 4 min 49 sec. of 6.125 hour interview
    • Woolford Family History, 2006 Jul 24

    • Woolford Family History, 2006 Jul 24

    • Woolford, Joe

    • Mormon Pioneers -- Arizona -- Biography, Woolford family; Ranching -- Arizona -- History

    • Experiences as a youth growing up in Show Low, AZ. MP3 Clip is 3:7 min of 1:15 hr interview
    • Dr. Christine Marín: Archivist/Historian

    • Dr. Christine Marín: Archivist/Historian

    • Raul H. Castro Institute and Latino Perspectives Magazine

    • Latina; Archives; Archivists; Archivists--United States--Biography; Archivists--United States--History; Historians; Historians--Arizona--Biography; Latino communities; Latino studies; Latina studies; Research collections in Latino studies;...

    • Dr. Christine Marín, on the tradition of Mexican-Americans in Arizona to preserve their family legacy through family heirlooms, historical documents and photographs. The Chicano/a Research Collection and the Hayden Library at Arizona State...
    • Dr. Christine Marín

    • Dr. Christine Marín

    • Raul H. Castro Institute and Latino Perspectives Magazine

    • Latina; Archives; Archivists; Archivists--United States--Biography; Archivists--United States--History; Historians; Historians--Arizona--Biography; Latino communities; Latino studies; Latina studies; Research collections in Latino studies;...

    • Footage of Dr. Christine Marín, speaking on the tradition of Mexican-Americans in Arizona to preserve their family legacy through family heirlooms, historical documents and photographs. The Chicano/a Research Collection and the Hayden Library at...
    • Francisca Stevens (1855 ca.-1882)

    • Francisca Stevens (1855 ca.-1882)

    • Unknown

    • Women -- History -- Arizona; Apache Indians -- History -- Arizona

    • Several sources indicate that Francisca was the daughter of Es-Kel-Thes-e-la, hereditary Chief of the Coyotero Band of Apache Indians. It is said that her husband, George Stevens, married her for the protection it gave him during his travels in...
    • Pauline Cushman (1833-1893)

    • Pauline Cushman (1833-1893)

    • Unknown

    • Women -- History -- Arizona; Women and War; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Participation, Female; Women Spies -- United States

    • An aggressive and outspoken woman for her times, Cushman spent her Arizona years in Casa Grande managing her husband's saloon and livery business. Before coming to Arizona, she worked as an actress and as a Union spy infiltrating Rebel territory...
    • Lottie Whiteside

    • Lottie Whiteside

    • Unknown

    • Women -- History -- Arizona; Women in Medicine -- Arizona

    • During Arizona's territorial period many women were recognized as "doctors." One such woman was Lottie Whiteside. Dr. Whiteside of Wickenburg did not possess a professional degree; however, she skillfully cared for the sick. Like many of the women...
    • Berta Coveney

    • Berta Coveney

    • Unknown

    • Women -- History -- Arizona

    • This photograph, while undated, was probably taken during the 1880's. Though Ms. Coveney's personal history is unknown, her father was James M. Cotton, a businessman in Phoenix during the last half of the 19th century. He and George E. Mowry were...
    • Adeline Bobblett Hall (1844-1912)

    • Adeline Bobblett Hall (1844-1912)

    • Unknown

    • Women -- History -- Arizona

    • Adeline Bobblett was born in Dayton, Ohio on December 23, 1844. At 22 she moved to Kansas to teach school in the Solomon Valley. There she met James Hall, a rough-talking, tobacco-chewing buffalo hunter and frontiersman, whom she soon married. With...

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