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    • Cline Family History

    • Cline Family History

    • Bessie Cline Turner

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Arizona History 20th Century; Gila County (Ariz.); Biography; Agriculture; Ranching History of Gila County; Homesteading;

    • Bessie tells of her family moving to Arizona and to Pleasant Valley in the 1920s. Her father was a homesteader, a farmer, who grew all sorts of fruit and vegetables and made sorghum to sell. She tells of growing up in the little community of...
    • Perspectives of the Past-Oral history interview with Dolores Celaya 2011-12-17

    • Perspectives of the Past-Oral history interview with Dolores Celaya 2011-12-17

    • Celaya, Dolores

    • Oral history--Arizona. Tucson (Ariz.)--History--Anecdotes. Tucson (Ariz.)--Social life and customs--20th century. Homesteading. Forage plants--Southwestern States.

    • Dolores Celaya discusses her Grandfather Eufemianino Moyza who homesteaded Moyza Ranch in Arivaca, Arizona around 1875. She recalls her own life on the ranch, and the seasonal food cycle and food preservation. Celaya also describes gathering and...
    • Manuela Sanchez Sotelo and Maria Sotelo Miller

    • Manuela Sanchez Sotelo and Maria Sotelo Miller

    • Raul H. Castro Institute and Latino Perspectives Magazine

    • Maricopa County (Ariz.)--History; Maricopa County (Ariz.)--History--Miscellanea; Tempe (Ariz.)—History; first Mexican family to settle in Salt River Valley area (Ariz.)--History

    • Unimaginable hardships faced the settlers from Mexico and the eastern United States who began becoming to the Salt River Valley in the 1860s and 1870s. The unforgiving terrain challenged farming skills, required homesteading talents and presented...
    • The Manual Chavez family

    • The Manual Chavez family

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    • Pioneers--Arizona--Sedona

    • When Juan Nuanez's American citizenship was questioned, he sent for his father-in-law, Manual Chavez, to take the place Juan had been homesteading along Oak Creek. Chavez lost his rights to homestead again after he gave Nuanez's land back to him,...
    • Arizona historic preservation plan

    • Arizona historic preservation plan

    • Arizona State Historic Preservation Office

    • Historic preservation--Arizona--Planning; Historic sites--Arizona--Conservation and restoration

    • 60 pages (PDF version). File size 2,638 KB
    • Oral History Interview with Dirk Frauenfelder, Betty Jo Penny, and Caroline Jessen

    • Oral History Interview with Dirk Frauenfelder, Betty Jo Penny, and Caroline Jessen

    • Frauenfelder, Dirk; Penny, Betty Jo; Jessen, Caroline

    • Yuma County (Ariz.); Gadsden (Ariz.); San Luis (Ariz.); Homesteading; Farming; Agricultural laborers--Arizona

    • The Frauenfelder and Lott families settled in Gadsden and southern Yuma County in the early 1900s. The Frauenfelder came in 1920 and the Lotts in 1912. They describe growing up along the border with Mexico, and how they worked in the fields and...
    • Oral History with Louie Gradias

    • Oral History with Louie Gradias

    • Gradias, Louis

    • Yuma County (Ariz.); Gadsden (Ariz.); Bracero Program; Agricultural laborers--Arizona; San Luis (Ariz.); Chavez, Cesar, 1927-1993; Mexican Americans--Arizona

    • Louie Gradias was born and raised in Gadsden. His mother was born in Gadsden in 1918 and met and married his father in 1938. They settled in Gadsden, built their own house and farmed the land. Mr. Gradias remembers attending Gadsden Elementary...

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