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Scope and Contents Summary of notes: Joe tells about his family from Yugoslavia and Slav families he knew in Gallup. Yugoslavian men coming over to America paid their own way. A family would fund a girl’s way, and then when she married her husband would have to pay them back for the cost of the trip. His father worked as a carpenter in the mines and told him a story of how insensitive a company official was who cared more about a mule dying than a man. Joe recalls his school days and working at the Gallup...