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Susan Cowan oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Susan Cowan conducted by Andres Moses on January 31, 2006 for the Boyer Early Las Vegas Oral History Project. Susan Cowan discusses growing up in Kansas City, Missouri, and always enjoying tap dancing. She then discusses working as a secretary at the University of Colorado-Boulder and becoming the lead administrator for the chemistry department there. She also discusses moving to Las Vegas, Nevada with her husband and getting involved with the local tap dancing community.
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Ralph Denton oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Ralph Denton conducted by K.J. Evans on January 10, 2000 for the Las Vegas Review-Journal First 100 Oral History Project. Denton first talks about his personal friendship with Governor Grant Sawyer, their education in law school, and his eventual work on campaigning for Sawyer after he became governor. Denton then speaks about working as Sawyer’s adviser. Toward the end of the interview, Denton describes his work on improving civil rights and some of the challenges that came with that.
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Lois Cox oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Lois Cox conducted by Mitch Cox on March 18, 1978 for the Ralph Roske Oral History Project on Early Las Vegas. Lois Cox discusses her experiences growing up in and living in Nevada. Cox first discusses her family background, growing up Basque, and her educational and employment backgrounds. She then describes her career in the Clark County School District and the changes in school and student activities over time.
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Ella Earl Carruth oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Ella Earl Carruth conducted by Sherry Angell on June 23, 1975 for the Ralph Roske Oral History Project on Early Las Vegas. Carruth discusses Bunkerville, Nevada before 1942, life in Las Vegas, Nevada during World War II, the atomic tests, and environmental changes.
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Edith Giles Barcus oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Edith Giles Barcus conducted by Tara L. Shepperson on March 17, 1977 for the Ralph Roske Oral History Project on Early Las Vegas. In this interview Barcus discusses living in Goldfield,Nevada, mining, purple glass, water conservation, her family history, and her birth in Colorado.
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Larry and Juanita Barr and Steven Gibson oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Larry and Juanita Barr, with Steven Gibson conducted by Margery Waters on March 27, 1976 for the Ralph Roske Oral History Project on Early Las Vegas. The Barrs and Gibson talk about African Americans in Las Vegas, Nevada, working on the Hoover (Boulder) Dam, living in tents, early entertainers, and early development in Las Vegas.
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Robert H. Barrett oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Robert H. Barrett conducted by Robert B. Grzywacz on February 22, 1975 for the Ralph Roske Oral History Project on Early Las Vegas. Barrett discusses the history of early Las Vegas, Nevada in terms of prostitution, education, Carole Lombard's plane crash, and atomic testing at Yucca Flats, Nevada.
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Marjorie Barrick oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Marjorie Barrick conducted by Mary Beth Nitzschke on March 13, 1981 for the Ralph Roske Oral History Project on Early Las Vegas.In this interview Barrick discusses the sociological view of Nevadans in the gaming industry. Barrick also discusses the beginnings of University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), Las Vegas history, founding Child Haven, a center for abused and neglected children, owning the Flamingo Hotel and Casino and the Fremont Hotel, and the lack of cultural activities in the 1950s.
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Mahlon Brown oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Mahlon Brown conducted by Claytee D. White on December 16, 2003 and January 13, 2004 for the Boyer Early Las Vegas Oral History Project. Brown discusses his career as a policeman in Washington, D.C., during the 1960s, an attorney in Las Vegas, Nevada along with Jack Anderson in the Las Vegas Welfare Rights Movement, and as a Justice of the Peace.
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Helen M. Baucum oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Helen M. Baucum conducted by William Marshall on February 28, 1975 for the Ralph Roske Oral History Project on Early Las Vegas. Baucum discusses her life as a local Nevadan. The interview covers Southern Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada, and Henderson, Nevada.Baucum also discusses her family history.
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