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    • Arizona Highways. January, 1987

    • Arizona Highways. January, 1987

    • Arizona Highways Commission

    • Arizona; Arizona Highways Magazine; Arizona Department of Transportation

    • CONTENTS

      Water and the Desert Dweller by Dennis B. Farrell 4

      High Sky and Wide Silence by Ellen Frell 12

      Snow on the Desert: A Portfolio 16

      The Westernmost Skirmish of the Civil War by Bernard...
    • Reece Family History

    • Reece Family History

    • Duane Reece

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Arizona History 19th century; Arizona History 20th Century; Gila County (Ariz.); Biography; Cattle--West (U.S.)--History; Ranching History of Gila County; Ranch managers--Arizona; Cowboy poets of Arizona

    • Duane Reece is a cattleman, and also a gifted cowboy poet. He begins with a poem skillfully describing his life as a young cowhand. Duane grew up in the Great Depression on ranches along the Gila River that bordered the San Carlos Indian...
    • Tucker Family History

    • Tucker Family History

    • Leroy Tucker

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Arizona History 19th century; Arizona History 20th Century; Gila County (Ariz.); Biography; Cattle--West (U.S.)--History; Ranching History of Gila County; Ranch managers--Arizona; U.S. Forest Service; Salt River...

    • Leroy tells his mother's grandparents, David and Josephine Bean Harer, the first white family to settle in Greenback Valley and the Tonto Basin in the mid 1870s. His mother was a Conroy. His father, Gabriel Kendrick Tucker, came to Globe with his...
    • Ellison Family History

    • Ellison Family History

    • Nathan Ellison and Lynna Deal

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Arizona History 19th century; Arizona History 20th Century; Gila County (Ariz.); Biography; Cattle--West (U.S.)--History; Ranching History of Gila County; Ranch managers--Arizona; U.S. Forest Service; Lion...

    • Following the Civil War, Colonel Jess Ellison moved to Texas. Feeling crowded there, he then drove a huge herd of cattle to the open spaces of the Tonto Basin and Rim Country of Arizona in the mid 1880s. He later established the enormous "Q"...
    • Haught Family History, Part 3

    • Haught Family History, Part 3

    • Joe Haught

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Arizona History 19th century; Arizona History 20th Century; Gila County (Ariz.); Biography; Cattle--West (U.S.)--History; Ranching History of Gila County; Ranch managers--Arizona; U.S. Forest Service;...

    • Joe Haught tells his family history, starting with his great-great uncle Fred Haught coming to Arizona and then calling the Haught family out to the Tonto Basin. Joe's great grandfather and grandfather Sam Ache Haught and family came to Tonto...
    • Hicks Family History, Part 2

    • Hicks Family History, Part 2

    • Roy Hicks

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Arizona History 19th century; Arizona History 20th Century; Gila County (Ariz.); Biography; Cattle--West (U.S.)--History; Ranching History of Gila County; Ranch managers--Arizona; U.S. Forest Service

    • Roy Hicks continues his family history, now with his parents meeting and marrying, and his childhood growing up on the Hicks Ranch during the Great Depression. He tells more stories of early Globe, of ranching and mining and the neighbors. He...
    • Holder Family History

    • Holder Family History

    • Hendrick Holder

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Arizona History 19th century; Arizona History 20th Century; Gila County (Ariz.); Biography; Cattle--West (U.S.)--History; Ranching History of Gila County; Ranch managers--Arizona; U.S. Forest Service; Post...

    • Kendrick's grandparents John and Sarah Holder and brother brought Angora goats to Arizona from New Mexico. He started several post offices in New Mexico and Arizona and consequently named several towns. They lived in the Prescott and Payson...
    • Jones Family History

    • Jones Family History

    • Beno Jones

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Arizona History 19th century; Arizona History 20th Century; Gila County (Ariz.); Biography; Cattle--West (U.S.)--History; Ranching History of Gila County; Ranch managers--Arizona; U.S. Forest Service; Pinal Mountain...

    • Beno's grandmother was Louzora Neal, whose family of women came from Texas and settled in Globe, Pleasant Valley and the Tonto Basin. She had several husbands, and Bud Jones was one of them. Bud Jones also a Texan, came driving a large herd of...
    • Sheppard Family History, Part 1

    • Sheppard Family History, Part 1

    • Lynn and Nancy Sheppard

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Arizona History 19th century; Arizona History 20th Century; Gila County (Ariz.); Biography; Cattle--West (U.S.)--History; Ranching History of Gila County; Ranch managers--Arizona; Rodeo Hall of Fame;...

    • Lynn tells of his family's fleeing Texas with a posse chasing them, and coming to Pleasant Valley. They then moved to Roosevelt to work on the construction of the dam. Lynn grew up, his father punching cows and breaking horses for Zee Hayes and...
    • Wheeler Family History, Part 2

    • Wheeler Family History, Part 2

    • Terry Wheeler

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Arizona History 19th century; Arizona History 20th Century; Gila County (Ariz.); Biography; Cattle--West (U.S.)--History; Ranching History of Gila County; Ranch managers--Arizona; San Carlos Indian Reservation...

    • Terry continues giving the history of the cattle industry and ranching in the San Carlos and Navajo Indian reservations. He explains the Apache culture, trends of politics and economy on the Reservation. He also talks about farming on the...
    • Griffin, John, Part 2

    • Griffin, John, Part 2

    • Griffin, John

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Arizona History 19th century; Arizona History 20th Century; Gila County (Ariz.); Biography; Cattle--West (U.S.)--History; Ranching History of Gila County; Ranch managers--Arizona; U.S. Forest Service; Salt River...

    • John Griffin continues to discuss ranching and managing the Griffin Ranch from 1993 to the present incorporating modern day science technology, of grant writing and of working with the U.S. Forest Service.
    • Lewis Family History in Ranching.mp3

    • Lewis Family History in Ranching.mp3

    • Lewis, Ray

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Arizona History 19th century; Arizona History 20th Century; Gila County (Ariz.); Biography; Cattle--West (U.S.)--History; Ranching History of Gila County; Ranch managers--Arizona; U.S. Forest Service; Salt River...

    • Ray Lewis tells of his grandfather, James Lewis, coming to America from Wales, working in mines and finally arriving in the Arizona Territory in the 1870's or '80's. While working in the Stonewall Jackson Mine in McMinnville, north of Globe, he...
    • Bixby Family History, Part 2

    • Bixby Family History, Part 2

    • Bixby, Steve and Dorothy

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Arizona History 19th century; Arizona History 20th Century; Gila County (Ariz.); Biography; Cattle--West (U.S.)--History; Ranching History of Gila County; Ranch managers--Arizona; U.S. Forest Service; Salt River...

    • In Part 2, Steve Bixby Jr. talks about his life, his childhood and of partnering with his dad, Steve Sr. on the ranch. Steve was the last of the family tradition of being born in California. He grew up the only boy with 6 sisters. He remembers...
    • Cooper Family History

    • Cooper Family History

    • Dwight Cooper

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Arizona History 19th century; Arizona History 20th Century; Gila County (Ariz.); Biography; Cattle--West (U.S.)--History; Ranching History of Gila County; Ranch managers--Arizona; Dams--Arizona--Salt...

    • Dwight's great grandfather first settled in the Roosevelt area, the original ranch, the Hay Hook Ranch, was just 3 miles from where the dam was built in 1911. He tells of early ranching practices and of how ranchers related to each other. His...
    • Haught Family History, Part 2

    • Haught Family History, Part 2

    • Linda Haught-Ortega

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Arizona History 19th century; Arizona History 20th Century; Gila County (Ariz.); Biography; Cattle--West (U.S.)--History; Homesteading -- Arizona; Ranching History of Gila County; Ranch managers--Arizona; U.S....

    • Linda Haught Ortega tells more of the Haught family migrating from Texas to Arizona in the mid-1880s through the eyes of woman and a historical researcher. Linda's father Alfred was the oldest of Samuel A. and Carrie Haught's children and she...
    • Oral History with George Fass, January 26, 2011

    • Oral History with George Fass, January 26, 2011

    • Fass, George

    • World War II; Kingman (Ariz.); Mohave County (Ariz.); Children and family; Ranching; Mining-Arizona

    • George Fass was born in 1929 and raised in Kingman, Arizona and has lived most of his life there. In this interview, Fass relates some of the changes in Kingman as it grew from a small town with only one stop sign and surrounded by ranches, to the...
    • Yuma County community telecom assessment

    • Yuma County community telecom assessment

    • Manweiler Telecom Consulting, LLC

    • Broadband communication systems--Arizona--Yuma County; Telecommunication systems--Arizona--Yuma County; Telecommunication--Arizona--Yuma County; Telecommunication policy- Arizona--Yuma County;

    • 235 pages (PDF version). File size: 5041.348 KB.
    • Humidor

    • Humidor

    • Reed and Barton

    • Tools and equipment for materials; Food service tools and equipment; Building furnishings; Lighting device; Household accessory; Other tools and equipment for materials; Arizona--history; Silverwork--history; Battleships--United...

    • Sterling silver cigar humidor designed for the USS Arizona Silver Service with the interior and bottom composed of wood. The front of the humidor is decorated by the state seal under an eagle and flanked by double swagged flags and cacti. The back...
    • James Pickrell Oral History Interview

    • James Pickrell Oral History Interview

    • Pickrell, James

    • Empire Ranch (Ariz.); Ranches--Arizona; Veterinary Medicine--Arizona

    • Dr. James Pickrell is a veterinarian who worked for the Boice family at the Empire Ranch. Jim went to high school with Pancho and Bob Boice. His first involvement with the Empire Ranch as a veterinarian was when the foreman, Fred Barnett, asked...

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