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Avis Childers Cowan Oral History Transcript
Collection
Identifier: AC 051-P
Scope and Content
One bound 108-page typed transcript of 17 hours of audiotaped interviews of Thelma Cone Childers Cleveland (Cowan's mother). In the interviews Cleveland discusses the period 1906--1922, from her birth until her marriage. She provides a detailed account of life in a poor farming family that homesteaded near Redland, New Mexico, and later Gasoline, Texas. Includes descriptions of farming, social life, and schools in eastern New Mexico and west Texas in the early 20th century. A genealogy chart of...
Dates:
1982
Found in:
Fray Angélico Chávez History Library
Pioneers Foundation (New Mexico) Oral History Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-123-BC
Scope and Content
The collection consists of oral history interviews with nineteenth century settlers of New Mexico. It includes 520 reel-to-reel audiotapes and 385 typed transcripts of interviews with ranchers, miners, hunters, sheriffs, naturalists, archeologists and journalists, mostly from the Silver City area. Interviewees recall everyday life and important events from the 1860s to the 1950s. Interviews were conducted by Lou Blachly, a founding member of the Pioneers Foundation. The collection includes...
Dates:
1952-1960
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- Fray Angélico Chávez History Library 1
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- Farmers -- New Mexico -- Redland 1
- Farmers -- Texas -- Gasoline 1
- Frontier and pioneer life -- Colorado 1
- Frontier and pioneer life -- New Mexico 1
- Frontier and pioneer life -- New Mexico -- Redland 1
- Frontier and pioneer life -- Texas 1
- Frontier and pioneer life -- Texas -- Gasoline 1
- Gasoline (Tex.) -- Social life and customs 1
- Grant County (N.M.) -- Anecdotes 1
- Grant County (N.M.) -- History 1
- Redland (N.M.) -- Social life and customs 1 ∧ less
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- Baley, John B., 1851- 1
- Blachly, Lou 1
- Mossman, Burton C., 1867-1956 1
- Pioneers Foundation (New Mexico) 1
- Powe, Marvin, 1875- 1
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