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    • Webb Family History, Part 1

    • Webb Family History, Part 1

    • Webb, June and Webb, Cherie

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

    • Part 1: June's grandfather, Edward Milo Webb Jr., was a blacksmith in Nauvoo, Illinois when the Latter-day Saints' migration to Utah began. He then immigrated to Woodruff, Arizona, but because he was a polygamist, was soon forced to move on to...
    • 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...
    • Amos, Cooley and West Family History, Part 1

    • Amos, Cooley and West Family History, Part 1

    • West, Glenn and West, Lonnie

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Apache County (Ariz.); Navajo County (Ariz.); Biography; Cooley, Corydon E. (Corydon Eliphalet), 1836-1917; White Mountain Apache of the Fort Apache Indian Reservation; Apache Indians--Wars; Apache Indians--Women;...

    • Part 1: Glenn and Lonnie West tell the history of their mother's grandparents, Corydon E. and Mollie Cooley. Corydon E. Cooley came west from Virginia when he was 20 years old, before the Civil War. He first moved to Santa Fe, but then followed...
    • Amos, Cooley and West Family History, Part 2

    • Amos, Cooley and West Family History, Part 2

    • 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; Snowflake (Ariz.); Lakeside (Ariz.); Sheep ranchers--Arizona--Biography;...

    • Part 2: Glenn and Lonnie West tell the history of the Amos family, their great grandparents and grandparents on their mother's paternal side, and of the West family, their father's ancestors. In 1874, Milton and Allie Amos migrated from Missouri...
    • 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...
    • 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...
    • 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...
    • Wilbur Family History, Part 1

    • Wilbur Family History, Part 1

    • Wilbur, Tilden and Wilbur, Carol

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Apache County (Ariz.); Navajo County (Ariz.); Biography; St. Johns (Ariz.); Prescott (Ariz.)--History; Verde Valley (Ariz.); Mormon pioneers--Apache county--Biography;

    • Part 1: Tilden's grandfather, John Brown, was sent by Brigham Young to St. Johns in the 1880's to set up the school systems for St. Johns and the academy at Snowflake. Jo (Josie) Brown, Tilden's mother, went to business school in Salt Lake City,...
    • Baeza, Jo History, Part 1

    • Baeza, Jo History, Part 1

    • Baeza, Jo

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Arizona History 20th Century; Navajo County (Ariz.); Biography; Arizona Culture Keeper; Newspapers--Arizona; Pinetop, (Ariz.); U.S. Forest Service;

    • Part 1: Jo was born in Minnesota immersed in history and writing. Her great grandparents built one of the first hotels in the territory in 1854, encountering the Dakota-Sioux conflict on the edge of the frontier. Her grandfather Johnson was a...
    • Baeza, Jo History, Part 2

    • Baeza, Jo History, Part 2

    • Baeza, Jo

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Arizona History 20th Century; Navajo County (Ariz.); Biography; Arizona Culture Keeper; Newspapers--Arizona; Pinetop, (Ariz.); U.S. Forest Service;

    • Part 2: In 1965, Jo moved to Pinetop, bought the only house for sale from Pearl Penrod, a house built by Ethel Stephens, the cook at the McNary Guest House. She also got the only job in town working for Bob Fernandez Realty. There were about 600...
    • Castillo Velasquez Family History Part 1

    • Castillo Velasquez Family History Part 1

    • 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 1: Carmen's parents, Ernest and Antonio Castillo, came to McNary from Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1949 to work as a welder on the trains for the Southwest Forest Industries. Carmen was just entering school. She describes the layout of the...
    • 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...
    • 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,...
    • McNeil & Lee Family History, Part 7

    • McNeil & Lee Family History, Part 7

    • Lee, Esther McNeil

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

    • Part 7: Esther and Lawrence began their family that would eventually grow to 10 children. (One son was drowned in Rainbow Lake.) As the Great Depression set in, Lawrence worked 3 jobs simultaneously. He took the job as the High School Shop...
    • 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...
    • Francisca Montoya: Farm Labor Union Organizer

    • Francisca Montoya: Farm Labor Union Organizer

    • Raul H. Castro Institute and Latino Perspectives Magazine

    • Labor union democracy--United States; Labor union democracy--United States--History; Labor union members, Hispanic American; Labor union members--History--20th century; Labor union members, Mexican American; Labor union members--North America;...

    • How Francisca Montoya, from a family of migrant agricultural workers, struggled to maintain a family, pursue an education, and remain actively committed to farm workers' rights.
    • Graciela Gil Olivarez: Government Official, Attorney, Activist

    • Graciela Gil Olivarez: Government Official, Attorney, Activist

    • Raul H. Castro Institute and Latino Perspectives Magazine

    • Latina; Copper miners--Arizona--Social conditions--20th century; Copper miners; Copper miners--Labor unions--Arizona; Copper miners, Mexican American; Bilingualism; Disc jockeys; Disc jockeys--Arizona--Phoenix; Disc jockeys--Biography;

    • Graciela Gil Olivarez grew up in a segregated mining town in Barcelona, Arizona and would rise to become Phoenix's first female disc jockey. Her capacity in radio gave her an opportunity to speak on behalf of destitute Mexican American families,...
    • Lu¡sa Ronstadt Espinel, Music Ambassador to the World

    • Lu¡sa Ronstadt Espinel, Music Ambassador to the World

    • Raul H. Castro Institute and Latino Perspectives Magazine

    • Latina; Folk songs--Mexico; Spanish monologues; Monologues. Music--Mexico; Mexican American musicians; Tucson Region (Ariz.)--History; Spanish art;

    • Luisa Ronstadt Espinel, from the city of Tucson in Arizona, inherited her love of Mexican and Spanish music from her parents at a young age. Her appreciation of Hispanic culture lead her to begin a music career and tour the United States,...
    • Romana Acosta Bañuelos

    • Romana Acosta Bañuelos

    • Raul H. Castro Institute and Latino Perspectives Magazine

    • Pan American National Bank; Food production and natural resources; Mexican Americans; Mexican Americans--California--Los Angeles--History; Mexican Americans--California--Los Angeles--History--20th century; Mexican Americans--Florida--Biography;

    • Daughter of an Arizona copper miner, Romana Acosta Bañuelos would go on to found Ramona's Mexican Food Products, Inc., the Pan-American National Bank, and later be appointed to serve as U.S. Treasurer by President Nixon.
    • Trinidad Meija Escalante Swilling: the Mother of Phoenix

    • Trinidad Meija Escalante Swilling: the Mother of Phoenix

    • Raul H. Castro Institute and Latino Perspectives Magazine

    • Swilling, Jack, 1830-1878. Swilling family; Phoenix (Ariz.. Phoenix (Ariz.)--History. Phoenix (Ariz.)--History--19th century. Canal construction.

    • Trinidad Escalante Swilling was born in Hermosillo, Mexico to a Spanish father and Mexican mother. After the death of her father, she and her mother would move to Tucson where Trinidad would marry Jack Swilling, a Confederate veteran of the Civil...

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