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Contains 41 Results:
James Ashton, 8/17/1987
File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
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Notes - Lull in the beginning, Ashton’s voice is very soft and the interviewers’ is too loud, so it is hard to hear him. He is taking about trading post days, life, Gallup, Zuni. Ashton moved to Gallup as a young man with his parents after the 1918 Flu Epidemic, which took the lives of his two sisters. His father was a bookkeeper for various coal companies in the area. After high school Ashton went to work in a local gas station as a night watchman. Major themes include his life during the...
Dates:
8/17/1987
Olga Baird, 5/4/1982
File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
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Summary of Notes Throughout the tape there is a high pitched squealing sound but the narrator’s voice is quite good. There is a lull in the beginning. Olga Baird tells about her father, an immigrant, who became a miner and independent contractor in Gallup. She married Gene Baird, who at different times ran several trading posts on the Navajo reservation. She tells about the life of a White woman surviving on the reservation at Sawmill and Ft. Defiance, the local foods, relations with the...
Dates:
5/4/1982
Virgie Chavez, 2/9/1996
File — Box: 1, Folder: 3
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Summary of Notes Virgie Chavez started out life with her family on the Mazon Ranch, near Zuni. She recalled the Depression, the stock reduction program, making jerky from the meat of the animals killed and a bad winter storm in the Gallup area. Later the family moved into Gallup and she talks about her schools, leisure time, college years, working as a waitress and becoming a teacher. She married Timoteo Chavez, a rancher from Atarque, and they lived there for a while. She always wanted to open...
Dates:
2/9/1996
Virgie Chavez Continuation, 2/9/1996
File — Box: 1, Folder: 4
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Dates:
2/9/1996
George Marion Condrey, 8/3/1980
File — Box: 1, Folder: 5
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Summary of transcript: Born in Fort Wingate, George’s grandfather worked for the Indian Service and was a trader. He recalls Wheeler buying trading posts, the decline in the Hubbell string of trading posts, Collier, the stock reductions and the Great Depression. As a young man, he lived with his uncle, Gibb Graham, who had lots of land in the Colonial Juarez area of Mexico because he wanted to avoid U.S. government taxes. George talks about Pancho Villa and the Mormons, ranching and how the...
Dates:
8/3/1980
Martha Corcoran and sister, 8/19/1980
File — Box: 1, Folder: 6
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Summary of notes: You can hear them, but sometimes it is faint, and the interviewer is too loud, and there is a constant noise in the background. Their story and comments are quite interesting. They repeat what their immigrant father told them about Gallup when he arrived in 1889. He operated a saloon and told them about not serving alcohol to Indians. When Prohibition put him out of business, he went to work for the Gallup Mercantile Store. The sisters talk about their parents, school, Lent,...
Dates:
8/19/1980
Sarah Davis, August 1979
File — Box: 1, Folder: 7
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Summary of transcript: Sarah was born at Fort Wingate, where her father was a teamster. She described what the fort was like during her childhood, their home, the Christmas gifts the soldiers gave them, etc. Later they lived at the Red Rock logging camp, McGaffeys and Ramah and she talks about logging, their home, farm, garden and the winter conditions, including their wagon sleigh, hot rocks to keep warm and her brother’s sled. She also tells stories about her schooling, the Mormons, milking...
Dates:
August 1979
Harriet Danoff, 6/16/?
File — Box: 1, Folder: 8
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Summary of transcript: Scattered memories of Mrs. Danoff, who had lived in New York City and Los Angeles before moving to Gallup. She talks about family, friends, dating, her marriage to Simon, his Gallup store and ranch, her work there and raising her children.
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Dates:
6/16/?
Smithy Eoff, undated
File — Box: 1, Folder: 9
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Senator Eoff talks about being a Senator, campaigns, committees and local issues, including nuclear waste in New Mexico, Federal control of the state, the economy, mining, foreign investment and agriculture. Included are his reasons for the decline in the gas, coal and uranium industries, the role of the state government, the loss of jobs, tax revenues, ties to the world economy, etc. He notes New Mexico has resources and mines but not the processing plants for them in the state for jobs, that...
Dates:
undated
Ruth Finley, 8/3/1982
File — Box: 1, Folder: 10
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Summary only: Ruth is talking before the Gallup Historical Society. Throughout the tape there is a high pitched squealing sound and the narrator’s voice is distorted. You can understand much of what she says, but with some difficulty. She seems to be reading from written notes about her life or a memoir. Finley was a teacher in Gallup, trained in the Midwest, and then came West by rail at the turn of the century. She talks about the railroad trip to Gallup, the early businesses, saloons, opera...
Dates:
8/3/1982
Buddy Foutz, 1982
File — Box: 1, Folder: 11
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Summary of notes: Buddy Foutz talks about the changes in and modernization of the trading post business and how the traders used to help the Indians with their various needs. Among other topics, he discusses the changes in the lives of the Indians, the royalties paid to Navajos from companies and developments like the Navajo dam and agriculture program. He also comments on the causes of Indian alcoholism, public health treatment for them and boarding schools.
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Dates:
1982
Julian Grenko, 10/6/1984
File — Box: 1, Folder: 12
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Summary of transcript: Julian Grenko and his family operated the Grenko Coal Company, the first to unionize in the Gallup area - United Mine Workers Union, 1933. He comments on mining during the Depression and the miners’ hours, pay and demands. Grenko family members also worked at other mines and consolidated their business efforts to survive. He discussed the Sunshine Mine, Allison Mine, U.S. Mining Company, Santa Rita Mine, Weaver Mine (fire) and others. He compares mining practices in Iowa...
Dates:
10/6/1984
Clair E. Gurley, 3/14/1990
File — Box: 1, Folder: 13
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Summary of notes: Mr. Gurley at first managed and later owned a car dealership in Gallup. He talks about the first cars and sales in Gallup, the road to Albuquerque - Route 66 - and the street routes through Gallup, his Navajo customers, credit and pickups, Indian alcoholism, and how he kept a stock of cars on hold to sell during World War II. He tells of people he knew in business and how he also operated a clay mine for refining oil in Chambers, Arizona. He recalls his service in World War II...
Dates:
3/14/1990
Tom E. Kirk, 8/18/1980
File — Box: 1, Folder: 14
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Summary of notes: Kirk talks about his parents coming to New Mexico and his family’s operation of several different Indian trading posts on the Navajo reservation. He recalls his early life, schools, the hardships of the Depression, bad roads and selling finer Navajo rugs in California and Chicago and saddle blankets in Texas. He explains why the Navajos preferred to sell in Gallup instead of on the Western side of the reservation.
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Dates:
8/18/1980
John Kennedy, 8/7/1980
File — Box: 1, Folder: 14
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Summary of notes: Mr. Kennedy talks about his father, who worked at a lumber camp, then ran different Indian trading post at Chinle, Salinas Springs, Turkeky Springs and Gallup, and later owned the Rock Springs Ranch. He talks about his own childhood, schooling, trading post life, the Navajos, work on the ranch and at the Gallup Mercantile Store. He has interesting comments about how the trading posts were sometimes established without tribal approval and that leases on the land for many of the...
Dates:
8/7/1980
Frances Roberts Huerta, 5/22/1990
File — Box: 1, Folder: 15
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Summary of transcript: Frances was from Nogal, near Carrizozo, New Mexico, the daughter of Dee Roberts. Her parents were originally from Texas. Her family lived at Fort Wingate when it was deactivated and later at various ranches in the area. She describes the fort, a red railroad car that doubled as a schoolhouse, her latr school years at St. Vincent’s in Albuquerque, dating, dances and different places and people in the area. She also tells about her jobs, husbands and children. She recalled...
Dates:
5/22/1990
Irene Gurley, 6/17/?
File — Box: 1, Folder: 16
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Summary of transcript: Scattered memories of Irene, the wife of Clair Gurley, who ran the Gallup car dealership. She explains where they were from, how they met, where they lived and their children. She talks about leisure in the old days, the social church club, parties at El Navajo, El Rancho, shopping, etc.
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Dates:
6/17/?
Tom E. Kirk, 8/18/1980
File — Box: 1, Folder: 17
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Summary of notes: Tom Kirk continues to tell about his work and life at the Kirk family trading posts. He recalls the story of Sloppy Jack, a trader at China Springs, killed by the Navajos. He explains the relationship between the Indian and the trader and how it has changed in recent years. He and Sally discuss Bayeta rugs, the evolution in Navajo rug styles and prices and how the Navajos adapted to new dyes over the years. He also talks about Hosteen Klah as a weaver. Placeholder...
Dates:
8/18/1980
Pauline Chicado Middleton, 9/19/1987
File — Box: 1, Folder: 18
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Summary of notes: Pauline tells about her immigrant family and the tourist court or motel her father had in Gallup for years. She described the early operations and furnishing of the motel and the later changes that were made in the business. She recalls conditions and life in Gallup during the Depression, World War II and 1950s - commenting on the railroad, roads, floods, snow storms, the increase and changes in motels, travelers and other businesses, Route 66 and the multicultural aspect of...
Dates:
9/19/1987
Roberta Pittman Middleton, 9/19/1987
File — Box: 1, Folder: 19
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Summary of notes: Roberta talks about her marriage and her husband, and what it was like to be a teacher in the Gallup area in the 1930s-50s, the living conditions and the benefits of a one room school house, etc. She describes life in Zuni, enjoyed seeing Shalako and recalls the parents were very supportive of her as a teacher and of their children.
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Dates:
9/19/1987
Hershey Miyamura, 1991
File — Box: 1, Folder: 20
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Summary of Notes Hershey Miyamura and his wife talk with Sally about his parents, who were from Japan, and his family life and his father’s restaurant business in Gallup. He also recalls eating American food and only traditional Japanese food on holidays. He tells about the Japanese Methodist School and Church in a converted boxcar and the Japanese community in Gallup, his school days, friends, sports, activities, first job as a mechanic at Gurley’s dealership, first Model A, etc. He described...
Dates:
1991
Thomas Clark Noe, 7/1/1982
File — Box: 1, Folder: 21
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Summary of notes: Clark Thomas is the father of Sally Noe. Mr. Noe’s father worked on the Santa Fe Railroad and the family left Missouri and moved to Gallup in 1910 in order for him to get 5 cents extra in pay - called desert pay, which brought him 60 cents extra a day. He talks about his family, schools, jobs on the railroad, cutting hay and as a cowboy herding horses and antelope. Included are tales of hard conditions, low wages, living in boarding houses, his first Model T and working in...
Dates:
7/1/1982
Thomas Clark Noe -Continuation, 7/1/1982
File — Box: 1, Folder: 22
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Dates:
7/1/1982
Katherine Noe, 7/1/1982
File — Box: 1, Folder: 23
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Summary of notes: Katherine is the mother of Sally Noe. After getting a business education, Katherine returned to Gallup and had jobs in the offices of the Gallup Mercantile Store, the Cotton store, Gross Kelly, the Merchants Bank, the Wallace store, etc. and knew of the Kirks, Kennedys, Fred Harvey, etc. In the stores she worked in accounting, pricing, etc. and dealt with the Navajo weavers and teamsters, post traders, handled wool, livestock, rugs, pottery, fruit, vegetables, etc. She...
Dates:
7/1/1982
Frances Petranovich, 9/11/1980
File — Box: 1, Folder: 24
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Summary of notes: Frances was raised in a coal mining family and married a coal miner. She recalls her growing up years and schools, the pros and cons of living in company towns, some of the happier times of her life, picnics on weekends with friends, etc. She also relates the feelings of the union miners about their jobs, the companies, strikes and scab labor. She lamented that the strikers left mining after the strike and never got their pensions that they fought for - that the scab labors...
Dates:
9/11/1980