Oral history collection, 1952-1960 [microform].

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Oral history collection, 1952-1960 [microform].

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Oral history interviews with nineteenth century settlers of New Mexico. Contains 385 typed transcripts. Interviews with ranchers, miners, hunters, sheriffs, naturalists, archeologists and journalists, most from the Silver City area, 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. Includes personal reminiscences from; John B. Baley, Henry Brock, J. Stokley Ligon, Burton Mossman, Marvin Powe, Agnes Meader Snider, Montague Stevens, A.J. Stockbridge, Marietta Wetherill, Wayne Whitehill and Wayne Wilson, among others.

University of New Mexico-Main Campus

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University of New Mexico-Main Campus

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Stevens, Montague, 1859-1953

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Montague Stevens was born in 1859 in India. In 1881, he moved to the West having been drawn to this region of the United States after a hunting expedition during vacation from law school. Stevens later resided in New Mexico where he pursued the hunting of grizzly bears and sheep ranching with the help and teachings of local employees. He also served as ranch manager for General Wood. The hunting of grizzly bears is perhaps his most noted accomplishment and is of central importance to his book, M...

Pioneers Foundation.

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Pioneers Foundation, founded 1951 in Silver City, New Mexico. Founded to secure reminiscences of older residents of Grant County. Supported by private donations. From the description of Oral history collection, 1952-1960 [microform]. (University of New Mexico-Main Campus). WorldCat record id: 22969913 ...

Powe, Marvin, 1875-

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Ligon, J. Stokley

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Biologist with the U.S. Biological Survey from 1913 to 1943. Specialized in predator/prey relationship in the American Southwest. From the description of J. Stokley Ligon papers, 1916-1954. (Denver Public Library). WorldCat record id: 53221791 J. Stokley Ligon, wildlife specialist and conservationist, was born in Hays County, Texas, on June 22, 1879. He was educated in Texas and moved to New Mexico in 1907. In 1913, Ligon entered the U.S. Biological Survey and studied New Me...

Brock, Henry, 1867-

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Baley, John B., 1851-

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Snider, Agnes Meader.

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Whitehill, Wayne, 1872-

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Wilson, Wayne

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Stockbridge, Jack, 1873-

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Mossman, Burton.

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Wetherill, Marietta.

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Blachly, Lou

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Louis Bradley Blachly (1890-1965) was an employee of the U.S. War Dept. and Foreign Economic Administration, 1941- 1949, working in Columbia, S.C., Washington, D.C., North Africa, Europe, and the Middle East; later author of natural history books and articles, and local historian with the Pioneers Foundation, New Mexico. His maternal grandfather, Dan Beach Bradley, was a medical missionary to Bangkok, Siam, from 1835 to 1846 From the guide to the Papers of Lou Blachly, 1827-1965, (Un...