Box 1

Scope and Contents 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...