| Title |
Spanish speaking peoples in Utah, oral histories: book 1, numbers 1 through 10 |
| Alternative Title |
Jose Medel, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Vincent Mayer, October 9, 1970; Louis Amador, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Vince Mayer, Greg Thompson and Floyd O'Neil, December 3 and 8, 1970; Mrs. Francis Yañez, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Vincent Mayer, May 21, 1971; Señor Santos Cabrerra, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Vincent Mayer, January 4, 1971; Mrs. Ellen Córdova, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Bernice Martínez, June 15, 1973; Mr. Francisco Solario, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Floyd A. O'Neil and Vincent Mayer, December 19, 1970; Jesús and Agapito Castillo, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Vincent Mayer, June 13, 1971 |
| Creator |
Medel, José, 1907- ; Amador, Louis, 1908- ; Yañez, Mrs. Francis, 1886- ; Cabrerra, Santos, 1886- ; Córdova, Ellen, 1904- ; Solario, Francisco, 1910- ; Castillo, Jesús, 1924- ; Castillo, Agapito, 1923- |
| Contributor |
University of Utah. American West Center; Mayer, Vincent, 1944- ; Thompson, Gregory C. (Gregory Coyne), 1943-; O'Neil, Floyd A.; Martínez, Bernice |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
1970-10-09; 1970-12-03; 1970-12-08; 1970-12-19; 1971-01-04; 1971-05-21; 1971-06-13; 1973-06-15 |
| Date Digital |
2015-01-15 |
| Spatial Coverage |
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/5780993/ |
| Subject |
Mexican Americans--Utah--History; Mexican Americans--Utah--Biography; Mexican Americans--Utah--Social conditions; Chicano movement--Utah |
| Keywords |
Migrant workers; Farm labor; Railroad workers; Mexican Americans; Mexican Revolution; Labor movement; Catholic Church; Guadalupe Mission; Miners; Utah Copper; Chicano; Mexican Civic Center; Mexican consuls; Discrimination; Mexican immigrants |
| Description |
Transcript of interviews held in 1970, 1971 and 1973 at Salt Lake City with various Hispanic residents of Utah: Jose Medel (b. 1907), Lous Amador (b. 1908); Mrs. Francis Yañez (b. 1886); Santos Cabrerra (b. 1886); Mrs. Ellen Córdova (b. 1904); Francisco Solario (b. 1910); ; Jesús and Agapito Castillo (b. 1923 and 1924). From: Spanish Speaking Peoples in Utah, oral histories, Interviews no. 1 - 7, 8 - 10 |
| Type |
Text |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Language |
eng; spa |
| Rights |
 |
| Relation |
For description of each interview, see: http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv23580 |
| Scanning Technician |
Matt Wilkinson |
| Conversion Specifications |
Original scanned with Kirtas 2400 and saved as 400 ppi uncompressed TIFF. PDF generated by Adobe Acrobat Pro 10 for CONTENTdm display |
| ARK |
ark:/87278/s6mw46tt |
| Topic |
Mexican Americans--Biography; Mexican Americans--Social conditions; Chicano movement |
| Setname |
uum_sspu |
| ID |
1038425 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6mw46tt |
| Title |
Page 16 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_sspu |
| ID |
1038109 |
| OCR Text |
Show INTERVIE\.J': Jos~ Nedel Page 12 twenty ties a day most of us put eighteen tie, work all day, eighteen ties for two men, and the ones that put fourteen, they get fired if they don't put eighteen that's four behind. They figure in a year how many ties they'll be behind so they want you to put in all you can. VM: And if you didn't get that many they just let you go? JM: Yeah, they let you go, you gotta keep up with the other guys, you don't keep up you get fired. VH: Let's get back to the Mexicans who came here originally from Mexico, do you remember anything about them, or were you acquainted with them tell me a little bit about that. JM: Well I knew Jessie Ribas, he come from Mexico he was in a revolution. VM: Jessie Ribas? JM: Yeah, and Faustillos. VM: What was his full name, do you remember? JM: Golly, I know him for years and I call him just Faustillos. And Pancho Villa his name is, by golly I don't remember that either. VM: Why did they call him Pancho Villa. JM: He had a big moustache, a big face he looked like Pancho Villa. Tall, that's why we call him Pancho. VM: Who gave him this name the other Mexicans? JM: The people, yeah, the Mexicans. VM: Did he fight in the revolution too? JM: Yeah, he was in revolution, I don't know what side but he was in revolution |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6mw46tt/1038109 |
