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This reel contains Irving Howe speaking at the University of Denver on April 29 as part of the English Department Lecture Series. The year of the recording is unknown though it was most likely in the…

Iola Starr Johnson describes her memories of the big avalanche that wiped out the Hesperus mine on Feburary 16 1936 and took the lives of 6 Mancos residents. She also reads an account of the…

Minstrel Song

Folk Song

Child Ballad

Ms. Chapman recounts her experiences growing up in Texas and her later life in Lincoln NE starting in 1922.

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…

Ellie Sue Schafer (BA '90) Special Assistant to the President and Director of the White House Visitors Office speaks at the 2013 Alumni Symposium.

Mr. Trevino was born in Salanillo Coohuila. He was hired as a bracero in Zacatecas and enlisted in Monterrey. He remembers being sprayed with pesticides at the border. He worked in Edinburg TX…

Mr. Ortega was born in Miacatln Morelos. help he received from people when trying to get a contract as a bracero. Picked green tomato lettuce and packed lettuce. Worked as a bracero until 1964.

Father did not want him to work as a bracero finally paid for a "coyote" to get his contract in Empalme Sonor. Waited for one month there and got help from an officer to finally get…

Mr. Lopez grew up in Petatlan Guerrero. He worked as a bracero in California Texas New Mexico and Arkansas picking tomato cantaloupe sugar beet and cotton. Activities he did from 1954 to 1962.

Mr. Martinez grew up in Emetepec Hidalgo. He worked as a bracero in Califonia and Texas; picking orange lemon tomato green pepper carrot celery and cotton. Activities he did from 1951 to 1956.

Mr. Guevara Rodriguez grew up in Valle de Santiago Guanajuato. He worked as a bracero in Texas California Kansas City and Montana picking cotton strawberries corn and harvesting lettuce asparagas…

Mexican Revolution including being a prisoner of Pascual Orozco. Coming to the United States as part of the Division del Norte. Work experiences at Fort Bliss ASARCO in California and South Texas and…

Chamita, New Mexico. No listing in Cobos index. Continuation of item 50.13. Recording drops off at one or two points. Quality: good. PLEASE NOTE: this should be number 14 of 14 songs on the audiofile.