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Frontier and pioneer life -- Arizona

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Oral history interview with Boyd Rogers, 1980 February, 2006 March

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Identifier: MSM97-210
Abstract Rogers tells of his family's move to Mesa in the late 1800s to settle. His grandfather, Chancy Foster Rogers, homesteaded 80 acres at the southwest corner of Alma School Road and University where Rogers was born in 1900. He tells several stories about the Rogers brothers and their homesteading days. Rogers talks about his school days including a time when he fell off the swings and broke both arms. He mentions home remedies and the value of a dollar in those days. He also describes his...
Dates: 1980 February; Digitization: 2006 March

Oral history interview with Elizabeth Moody Crandall Gale, 1986 March 26, 2006 March

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Identifier: MHM2005-027-011-1
Abstract Gale gives some of her family's history and tells how her father, Francis Winfred Moody, helped settle and design the town of Thatcher, Arizona. She talks about her early life in Thatcher taking care of her siblings and grandmother. After marrying Myron Hamilton Crandall, Gale moved to Gilbert in 1917 where they farmed for several years, raised a family of five boys, and were active in the Mormon Church. Gale describes life in Gilbert and Mesa including going to movies at the Nile Theatre...
Dates: 1986 March 26; Digitization: 2006 March

Oral history of Isaac Owen Rogers, 1981, 2006 March

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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