Interview: Harry Stanley
Title: Reminiscences of Confidence and Groveland [sound recording] : a tape recorded speech to the Tuolumne County Historical Society / Columbia College.
Interviewee: Stanley, Harry
Recording Location: Sonora, CA
Date Recorded: June 21, 1958
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Direct Link: https://apps.gocolumbia.edu/oralhistory/listen?167
Call Number: F868 .T915 S787 1958
Author(s): Van Cleave, Ed. and Tuolumne County Historical Society.; Tuolumne County Historical Society.
Year Recorded: 1958
Performer: Recorded by Ed Van Cleave.
Performer: Recorded by Ed Van Cleave.
Physical Description: 1 online resource (4 audio files (147 min., 51 sec.).
Series Title: (Columbia Colllege oral history series)
General Notes: Contents outline (typescript, photoprint) accompanies recording. Recorded June 21, 1958.; Contents outline (typescript, photoprint) accompanies recording.; Recorded June 21, 1958.
Contents: Introductory remarks -- Observations about Tuolumne County -- Came to Tuolumne in 1879 -- Comments on community progress -- Changes in log-hauling -- Contrasts early attitudes with today's -- Early law -- Comments on the Big Oak Flat Road -- Hangmen's Tree -- Early acquaintance with Henry Carter -- 1883 get-togethers in schoolhouse -- Williams Ranch -- Mrs. Helen Jasper -- Sugar Pine Hotel -- First fish in Lake Elinor -- Anecdote of John Buckman and rattlesnake -- Buchanan Mine -- Moved to Groveland -- Last annual Thanksgiving Day meeting of "49ers" -- Lists last 12 forty-niners -- Cutting of road through tree -- First telephone in Groveland -- Beginning of Big Oak Flat Dramatic Club -- 1891 reminiscences of Yosemite Valley.
Local Notes: None
Held By: COLUMBIA
Personal Subject:
Geographic Term: Groveland (Calif.)--History--Personal narratives.
Geographic Term: Confidence (Calif.)--History--Personal narratives.
Geographic Term: Tuolumne County (Calif.)--History--Personal narratives.
