Cd 203
Container
Contains 1 Result:
Martin, Charles. March 17, 1952.74 years old, Mayor of Lordsburg and on the Board of Directors of the Lordsburg bank; came to New Mexico in 1887 from Comanche, Texas when he was nine years old; his father brought 1600 head of cattle and settled on Blue Creek; discusses range conditions; describes driving cattle to market in Silver City and Deming; describes the mining camp of Carlisle., May 20, 1952.
Item — CD: 203, Microfilm: 3
Scope and Content
From the Collection:
The collection consists of oral history interviews with nineteenth century settlers of New Mexico. It includes 520 reel-to-reel audiotapes and 385 typed transcripts of interviews with ranchers, miners, hunters, sheriffs, naturalists, archeologists and journalists, mostly from the Silver City area. Interviewees recall everyday life and important events from the 1860s to the 1950s. Interviews were conducted by Lou Blachly, a founding member of the Pioneers Foundation. The collection includes...
Dates:
May 20, 1952.