The Cecil Earl Cram collection consists of eight oral history interviews conducted by Cram in 1975. The narrators are all people associated with life on the Arizona Strip. Typical themes in the interviews are Mormon settlement, homesteading, ranching, water, grazing, the federal government, and ranch life.
Collection Number
NAU.OH.10
Language
English.
Repository
Cline Library. Special Collections and Archives Department.
Northern Arizona University
Box 6022
Flagstaff, AZ 86011-6022
Phone: 520 523 5551
Fax: 520 523 3770
Email: Special.Collections@nau.edu
Biographical Note
Cecil Cram was an NAU student who grew up in the Arizona Strip country.
Scope and Content Note
The Cecil Earl Cram collection consists of eight oral history interviews conducted by Cram in 1975. The narrators are all people associated with life on the Arizona Strip. Typical themes in the interviews are Mormon settlement, homesteading, ranching, water, grazing, the federal government, and ranch life. The narrators cover the period from the 1870s through 1975.
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Edward T. Lamb interviewed at Mt. Caramel, Utah,
April 29, 1975.
He was Born September 18, 1880, in Orderville, Kane County, Utah. Spent his life in cow camps and in the saddle. Talks about polygamy, his Mormon mission, his marriage, and his children.
1 audio tape, abstract, and transcript (prepared by Willard Hirschi) available.
Box-folder
10.2
Vard Heaton
, 1975.
No birth or death date provided. Heaton's main occupation was a sheepherder on the Arizona strip.
1 audio tape and abstract available.
Box-folder
10.3
John H. Schmutz
, 1975
Describes ranching on the Arizona Strip during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Also, talks about homesteading in 1897. He mentioned Nixon Spring, Tumbleweed, Pipe Spring, Yellowstone, etc. He also worked in the timber industry.
1 audio tape and abstract available.
Box-folder
10.4
Reed Mathis,
1975.
Mathis was born in the Parashont area of the Arizona Strip. He spent his life there as a cattleman. He mentioned the Canaan Ranch, handling mustangs, homesteaders, the Taylor grazing Act of 1934, cattle rustling and weather.
1 audio tape and abstract available.
Box-folder
10.5
Phil Foremaster,
1975.
Foremaster was born in St. George, Utah. He talks about cattle ranching, sheep herding, and homesteading. His family arrived on the Arizona Strip in 1870. Other topics include the scarcity of water, social life, and transition periods of the strip.
1 audio tape and abstract available.
Box-folder
10.6
W.B. Mathis,
1975.
Mathis moved to the strip in the 1940s. He talks about Native Americans on the Arizona Strip, as well as, hunting, water, logging, mining and sheep men.
1 audio tape and abstract available.
Box-folder
10.7
Joe Bloander and Henry Carroll,
1975.
Bloander and Carroll discuss the Grand Canyon National Park, Kayden reservoir (built by the Mormon church in 1909), sheep and cattle ranching, impact of the Taylor Grazing Act, water, and prohibition. (Parts of the tape are hard to understand).
1 audio tape and abstract available.
Box-folder
10.8
Blondie Jensen and Slim Waring,
1975.
The two discuss Laif's farm area, sheep grazing, dry farming, ranching, homesteading, and general day to day life on the Arizona Strip.
