Oral history, community, and work in the American West / Jessie L. Embry, editor.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Embry, Jessie L.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Physical Description: vii, 350 p.

"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.

Table of Contents

• Reflections
• 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.