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020 _a9780816599271
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020 _z9780816530175 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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050 0 0 _aF595
_b.O73 2013
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245 0 0 _aOral history, community, and work in the American West
_h[electronic resource] /
_cJessie L. Embry, editor.
260 _aTucson :
_bThe University of Arizona Press,
_c2013.
_e(Baltimore, Md. :
_fProject MUSE,
_g2015)
300 _a1 online resource (pages cm)
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aReflections -- Stories of community and work in the Redd Center Oral History Program / Jessie L. Embry -- A two-way street: explaining and creating community through oral history / Barbara Allen Bogart -- Probing memory and experience: the untapped potential of oral history (re)collections / Laurie Mercier -- Examples of neglected groups -- "Everybody worked back then": oral history, memory and Indian economies in northern California / William Bauer -- Bittersweet memories: oral history, Mexican Americans, and the power of place / Jose M. Alamillo -- "That's all we knew": an oral history of family labor in the American Southwest -Skott Brandon Vigil -- "Colorado has been real good to us": an oral history project with Japanese Americans in Weld County, Colorado / Georgia Wier -- Using oral history to record the story of the Las Vegas African American community / Claytee White -- Women at work in Las Vegas, 1940-1980 / Joanne L. Goodwin -- "Every woman has a story": Donna Joy McGladrey's Alaskan adventure / Sandra K. Mathews -- Searching for the rest of the story: documenting the Dee School of Nursing / John Sillito, Sarah Langsdon, and Marci Farr -- The Utah Eagle Forum: legitimizing political activism as women's work / Melanie Newport -- Essential sources -- Creating community: telling the story of the Mormons in Fort Collins, Colorado / Linda M. Meyer -- Every mine, every cow camp, every ranch: oral history as field work / Leisl Carr Childers -- Oral history among the orchards: a look at the James George Stratton family / Kristi Young -- Afterword: when history talks back / Clyde A. Milner II.
520 _a"The essays in this volume are case studies of the importance of oral history in understanding community and work in the American West"--Provided by publisher.
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
651 0 _aWest (U.S.)
_xSocial conditions
_y20th century.
651 0 _aWest (U.S.)
_xSocial life and customs
_y20th century.
650 0 _aOral history
_zWest (U.S.)
650 0 _aInterviews
_zWest (U.S.)
655 7 _aElectronic books.
_2local
700 1 _aEmbry, Jessie L.
710 2 _aProject Muse.
856 4 0 _zFull text available:
_uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780816599271/
942 _2Dewey Decimal Classification
_ceBooks
999 _c33227
_d33227