Southwest Colorado Oral Histories

Entry ID: 63

Institution: Center of Southwest Studies

  • Website: swcenter.fortlewis.edu
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  • Phone: 970-247-7456
  • Medium(s): Audio, Transcript

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    Narrator: Alice Lancaster

    Date: July 16, 1990

    Location Tags: Dolores, Montezuma County, Dolores County, Dove Creek

    Topic Tags: Homesteading, Education & Schools

    Description: Homesteaders--Colorado--Sylvan School teachers--Colorado--Biography Dove Creek (Colo.)--History; About Narrator: Mrs. Al Lancaster, now deceased.; Collection:U004: Southwest Oral History-Box 9 ; Notes:Much of side B is blank. Transcribed by Center of Southwest Studies staff on March 4, 1992. Copies of transcription given to family members (all except John were present) who signed the release in a meeting at Center of Southwest Studies on 8/26/2005. They also signed a release for a 4-hour interview session that Roy Crow did with both Al and Alice Lancaster in the 1960s that the family plans to donate to the Center to be transcribed. On 10/6/2005 Todd mailed both release forms to John Lancaster to sign, which he did on 10/12/05.;

    Last updated January 30, 2025