Audio Collection
As part of Southwest Colorado's 250/150 commemoration, the Animas Museum is taking part in the Oral History Initiative by documenting the oral histories that we hold.
Please email or call the Museum at (970)259-2402 for more information.
- Jim Colvig, oral history, interviewed by Mary Ellen Long on 11/20/91
- A.C. Robbins, oral history, interviewed by Mary Ellen Long on 2/1/92
- Helen Berket (age 80), story of Helen's Store, interviewed by Mary Ellen Long on 12/6/91
- Glenn Phillips, oral history, interviewed by Mary Ellen Long on 10/3/91
- Mrs. Lora Belle Peterson, oral history, interviewed by Mary Ellen Long on 11/1/91
- Frank Becay, oral history in 2 parts, interviewed by Mary Ellen Long on 2/13/91
- Elizabeth Ann Morris, archaeologist, talk at the Animas Museum, date unknown.
- Duane Smith, lecture with Tim Weisberg, date unknown
- Katherine Dale Erler, interviewed by Mary Ellen Long on 9/1/88
- Dr. Art Rohn, lecture at Fort Lewis College, date unknown
- Jim Judge, archaeologist talk on Chaco, date unknown.
- Louis Smith II, interviewed by Robert McDaniel at the Animas Museum on 6/18/83
- Louis Smith Jr. and great granddaughter Kathy Salars, interviewed by Robert McDaniel and Charles A. DiFerdinando on 8/11/88
- Edna & Oscar Swanson talking about the pony ride from Silverton to Durango, interviewed by Lawrence Kolz on 7/10/68
- Amy Thompson and her daughter Margaret Bell interviewed by Robert McDaniel on 10/23/86
- Bill Jones lecture on "Rails around the Circle" given 7/27/89
- Albert Metz Sr. interviewed by Robert McDaniel on 6/19/96
- Dr. Joe Ben Wheat lecture on early southwest weaving on 6/20/89
- Julia Barnett Stribling with John and Jeanette Bell interviewed by Robert McDaniel, Charles A. DiFerdinando, and Duane Smith on 7/10/89
- Jack Smith, Mesa Verde staff archaeologist, lecture on 7/13/89
- Michael & Frances Connor, on the Connor Estate photos donated to the Animas Museum, interviewed by Robert McDaniel on 9/14/89
- Fritz Box on Ute Oral Traditions, with Orion Box, Val Evanson and Charlie Lemon, talk at the La Plata County Fairgrounds during Cowboy Poetry Gathering, 10/6/90.
- Ross & Ethel McCausland on the Ah Wilderness! Ranch, interviewed by Susan Reneau on 7/31/00
- Frank Shry talk on Durango Fire Department history, interviewed by Robert McDaniel on 8/29/94
- Dr. Art Rohn, lecture on the Northeast San Juan Ancestral Puebloan settlement pattern given 7/21/88
- Dr. Duane Smith, lecture on Durango's Courtship of Mesa Verde and Durango's Archaeological Legacy on 11/4/82
- Dr. Susan Riches, lecture on Durango Archaeology in Perspective given on 11/18/82
- Trixie O'Donnell on Olga Little, 6/29/83
- Art Wyatt interview, date unknown
- Art Lancaster, date unknown
- Dr. Joe Ben Wheat lecture on Falls Creek date unknown
- Dr. Joe Ben Wheat lecture on the Yellow Jacket site, 7/18/83
- Art Lancaster, date unknown
- Pepi Spake, niece of Frances Pingrey interviewed by Robert McDaniel, date unknown
- Roberts/Conner family history by Adeline Harvey and Kathy Salars in August on 1981
- Otto Mears, program by Robert McDaniel for Colorado Matters, Colorado Public Radio, interviewed by Dan Drayr on 3/11/02
- Talk by Robert McDaniel on the Navajo Chief Blanket on 5/17/03
- Zeke Flora's message to the Tree Ring Gang in 1975
- Alva Lyons interviewd by Robert McDaniels on 10/17/86, 2 tapes
- A. Lewis & Robert Soens, interviewed by Robert McDaneils about their donations to the Museum on 2/10/95
- Art Wyatt at 90 on Durango and the Uranium Smelter, interviewed by Robert McDaniel on 11/17/86
- Dr. Robert Lister, lecture on comparing Mesa Verde and Chaco given on 8/16/83
- Steve Baker on Victorian Archaeology, talk given on 11/4/82
- Arvid Alexander, on railroading in Durango, recorded in 1983
- Ward Lee, video recording
- Dolf Kuss
- Joanne Smith, author of "I Lived in the Rico Depot"
- Finally there are 10 tapes of interviews with Richard Wetherill Jr. on life in the area