Box 1

Scope and Contents 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...