Collection: Western Yesterdays recordings

Seimer, August C. with Ed Sunergren – OH0766
Interview Date: 1963

Denver, Como, Boulder (coal), railroading engines #638, 896, 41, 73, 13.    

Snyder, Vena Apgar – OH0866
Interview Date: 1982

People: Ray Dougherty, Chet Apgar   Places: Estes Park, Loveland   Events: Stanley Steamers, a woman operator of them, drive up to Estes Park from Loveland via Drake, elk killed by V. A. Snyder (1938).    

Speas, Sam with E.F. Mathiesen – OH0823
Interview Date: 1963

Railroading: #74.      

St. George, Clara – OH0698
Interview Date: 1972

Life in the early west: cattle, cowboys, Indians.  

St. George, Clara – OH0841
Interview Date: 1972

Recorded for the KGNU radio program, Western Yesterdays, with Forest Crossen.   Oklahoma: Christmas, school teachers, ranching stories, the Run of April 22, 1889, Standard Oil, cattle herding, house and health stories; Part 2 – Indians of New Mexico, wool … Continue reading →

Sullivan, Mrs. John – OH0843
Interview Date: 1972

Montana: Great Falls, pioneer, family history, crops and game, Indian stories – robbers, “bad guy” stories.    

Tipps, Carl Frank with “Baldie” Sisson, Sam “Roy” Dunbar, Charles Williamson, and Albert J. “Tim” Walter – OH0825
Interview Date: 1975

DESCRIPTION Recorded for the KGNU radio program, Western Yesterdays, with Forest Crossen. William Arthur Tipps, anecdotes of Indian Jack (Jack Wallace), names of drivers, Sunset, Salina, Crisman, Big Five mines near Ward, Wood Mountain Mine, Golden Age, Jimtown (Jamestown); Switzerland … Continue reading →

Tipps, Carl with John Spare – OH0824
Interview Date: 1975

Recorded for the KGNU radio program, Western Yesterdays, with Forest Crossen.   Railroading in Boulder, Switzerland Trail; pioneer life in North Dakota; William Arthur Tipps (father of Carl).  

Viele, Albert and Frederick J. Klingler – OH0679
Interview Date: [undated]

People: Albert Viele, Frederick Klingler, Joe Ferguson, Mary Arnett, George Tourtellot, Dr. Hubbard, Billy Cook, Indian Jack, Johnny Carmack, Mack Smith, Robert Culver, Charles Dabney, Ben Williams, Jim Parker, Fred Berger, Ephraim Pound, G. I. Johnson.   Places: Boulder, Lover’s Hill, Barker Dam.   Subjects: … Continue reading →

Western Yesterdays – OH0856
Interview Date: [197?]

Recorded for the KGNU radio program, Western Yesterdays, with Forest Crossen.