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MWCoh-0577 (Tape 1, Side A) (Grand Junction Firemen)

No description given for Museum of Western Colorado Histories. Title: Grand Junction Firemen

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MWCoh-0035 (Side A) (Monument/Uranium)

No name or descrption given for audio from Museum of Western Colorado. Title: Monument/Uranium

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Interview with Henry Giclas November 30 2000 Interview 2 2000 November 30 (Tape 1)

Interview with astronomer Henry Lee Giclas on his association with astronomer and Pluto discoverer Clyde W. Tombaugh. Giclas discusses his work at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff Arizona where…

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Interview with John Setterland for the Grand Canyon Railroad Oral History Project [constructed title] April 2 1984 1984 April 2

Setterland worked as a locomotive engineer for the Saginaw and Manistee Lumber Compnay from 1927-1940. He describes the logging camps where the employees were accommodated (he lived alone at that…

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Interview with William "Bill" B. Sutton for the Grand Canyon Railroad Oral History Project [constructed title] April 2 1984. 1984

Sutton describes his experience as both a laborer as well as an engineer for the Grand Canyon Railroad. He discusses the aspects of the work as well as the route/stops along the railway that they…

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Oral history interview with Wilfred Ambrose August 25 1984. 1984

Mr. Ambrose was born in 1916. He attended the University of Arizona and began work on locomotives until 1942. After WWII he worked with the Grand Canyon train tours. He remembers many explosions…

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Oral history interview with Eugene L. Schmitz November 13 1984. 1984

Mr. Schmitz was born in Flagstaff AZ on September 17 1914. He recounts his experiences working on the Grand Canyon Railroad and discusses loading and herding sheep operating steam engines snowstorms…

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Oral history interview with Kenneth M. Polson April 6 1984. 1984

Mr. Polson was born in October 1904 in Williams AZ. He worked for the Harvey Co. and the Santa Fe Railroad and he helped build the Grand Canyon Railroad line. He discusses the Polson family history…

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Forest Crossen for Colorado Reflections

Forest Crossen author and historian reflects on his family's move from Montana to Colorado. Reflects on riding the Denver Interurban Electric Car from Denver to Boulder in the early 1920s.…

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Oral history interview with Tebow Henry J.

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Oral history interview with Tebow Henry J.

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Oral history interview with Tebow Henry J.

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Oral history interview with Tebow Henry J.

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Oral history interview with Maynard Henry Sargent 1981 May 6 (Part 3)

Sargent tells of his family's move to Mesa from Kansas via Los Angeles California. He retired from a career at Salt River Project but also worked as a farmer. Sargent gives great detail of…

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Oral History Interview with Robert "Bob" Derry 1984 July 20 (Side B)

Robert Derry talks about working as a smokejumper in 1943 and 1946. He also discusses his brothers Frank Chet and Virgil who were all smokejumpers and were involved with the early development of the…

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