Heritage Colorado
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Found in 56 Collections and/or Records:
Oral history interview with Wuzzie George., 2006, 1968 September 28
Item
Identifier: UNR82
Abstract
Hand games at the Pinenut Festival, Schurz, Nevada.
Dates:
2006; Digitization: 1968 September 28
Oral history interview with Wuzzie George, and Ray Alcorn., about 1969, 2006
Item
Identifier: UNR99
Abstract
Wuzzie George discusses birds. Recorded at Nevada State Museum, Carson City, Nevada.
Dates:
about 1969; Digitization: 2006
Oral history interview with Wuzzie George, and Sven Liljeblad., 2006, 1969 August 6
Item
Identifier: UNR121
Abstract
Talks about rattlesnakes.
Dates:
2006; Digitization: 1969 August 6
Oral history interview with Wuzzie George, Edna Jones, and Dr. Ralph Payne., 1969, 2006
Item
Identifier: UNR144
Abstract
Discusses the Stewart Indian School, Carson City, Nevada; Mormon settlers and their foods; Captain Wasson and Captain Ben; and pinenut trees.
Dates:
1969; Digitization: 2006
Oral history of Isaac Owen Rogers, 1981, 2006 March
Item
Identifier: MSM97-181
Abstract
Born in Mesa in 1903, Rogers tells of how his family was sent by Brigham Young to colonize Arizona. His father, Isaac Higby Rogers, worked as a blacksmith and invented a new device to shoe mules. He recalls details of farming with no machinery and home life with no electricity or running water. They used wet burlap to keep milk, eggs and butter cool. Rogers' grandfather was president of the Indian mission of the Mormon church, and Rogers gives a lot of detail about the daily life of Native...
Dates:
1981; Digitization: 2006 March
Oral history of Lelah Schornick, 1976 May 5, 2006 March
Item
Identifier: MSM97-184
Abstract
Schornick tells of her family's move to Mesa from Cherryville, Kansas, in 1909, to help her father's bronchiectasis. She recalls crops grown in those days: almonds, peaches, cantaloupe, citrus, dates. There were many ostrich farms and they ate ostrich eggs. She also talks about keeping cool by sleeping outside and wrapping water jars in wet burlap. Schornick married her husband Eugene (Gene), in 1917, and they had two children. Gene fought in World War II and retired from a career at Salt...
Dates:
1976 May 5; Digitization: 2006 March
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