Box 1

Scope and Contents 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...