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Found in 26 Collections and/or Records:

10th Mountain Training Group meeting oral history

 Collection
Identifier: C MSS OH201
Scope and Contents Recording of a group meeting of former soldiers who served in the 10th Mountain Division. Speakers include: Don Boswick, Fred Smith, John Bradley, Nate Morrell, Steve Knowlton, and Georgianna Contigulia. There are other speakers on the tape but they are not clearly identified. Subjects include: ski races, a wedding, the Aspen ski museum, mule stories, stories about troops and people, and talk about videos and films that we made, or were in the process of being made about the division. May be...
Dates: 1992

Arthur C. Delaney oral history

 Collection
Identifier: C MSS OH415
Scope and Contents

The interview provides biographical information and personal observations about Delaney's experiences as a member of the 10th Mountain Division during World War II.

Dates: 2009

Arthur Lloyd Monk memoir

 Collection
Identifier: C MSS -M539
Scope and Contents

Collection contains rambling notes as jotted down in talks with Monk about his early days in Saguache Valley, Colo. Apparently kept by donor, Ethel Van Cise. Title on cover: Early Western notes, Saguache country of Colorado.

Dates: 1934

Dan L. Kennerly oral history

 Collection
Identifier: C MSS OH220
Scope and Contents

The interview provides information and personal observations about Kennerly's background, military training and experiences during World War II.

Dates: TBD

Don Coyte oral history

 Collection
Identifier: C MSS OH208
Scope and Contents

The interview provides information and personal observations about testing of the 'Weasel", a tracked Army snow vehicle on the Columbian Ice fields in Canada. The Unit received Quonset huts, which they had to assemble on the glacier, this was claimed to be the first assembly of the Quonset hut in a field environment.

Dates: TBD

Earl Clark and Richard Over oral history

 Collection
Identifier: C MSS OH206
Scope and Contents During a radio interview broadcast on Denver station KPOK, Jeanna Waring interviews Earl Clark and Richard Over: discussion as to why a Mountain Infantry Division was formed, who made the decision, who was instrumental in formulating the decision, and when and where it was formed; training, organizing and equipping of the unit are also detailed; the decision to change the initial unit mission in Europe from the liberation of Norway to the "Gothic Line" in northern Italy; combat mission in...
Dates: no date

Earl Clark, Malcolm MacKenzie and H. Newcomb Eldredge oral history

 Collection
Identifier: C MSS OH202
Scope and Contents Interview conducted by Martha Teichner, CBS network commentator, and daughter of Pepi Teichner, a 10th Mountain Division ski instructor: how the idea of a mountain infantry unit was sold to, and approved by, Gen. Marshall, Army Chief of Staff by Minnie Dole, the National Director of the Ski Patrol; experimental unit was created in 1941, before the Pearl Harbor attack; most of the ski instructors were first generation Americans and their heritage was German, Italian, and Austrian, but there...
Dates: no date

Francis W. Lovett oral history

 Collection
Identifier: C MSS OH226
Scope and Contents

The interview provides biographical information and personal observations about Lovett's experiences with the 10th Mountain Division during World War II: time at Camp Hale, service friends, stress, transition to civilian life and post-war career.

Dates: 2003

Glenn Titus Film Collection

 Collection
Identifier: CONS275
Scope and Contents

Collection contains 16mm footage taken by Titus of the South Dakota Black Footed Ferret used for Program 24 of the series: The Science Game; including work print, negative, original footage, color master, notes and U-matic copy. Also included is a copy of the 16mm: Kit Fox by Henry Wishers.

Dates: 1960s

Hunter L. Slugg oral history

 Collection
Identifier: C MSS OH235
Scope and Contents The interview provides information and personal observations about Slugg's experiences with the 10th Mountain Division during World War II: mountaineering training; how he scored expert with the BAR during training and being assigned as a BAR man in his unit; unit's arrival in Italy and movement to the front lines relieving British Forces in the Belvedere area; promotion to assistant Squad leader as a Sergeant; experiences during Riva Ridge, Po Valley, Lake Garda and the brief encounter with...
Dates: no date

J. G. Brown papers

 Collection
Identifier: WH52
Scope and Contents Collection contains notes in pencil recalling interview with Ulysses S. Grant during the General's visit to Colorado (1880); journal/autobiography (1865-1866) tells of his birth in Tennessee, brief description of childhood, narrative on his views of slavery and religion, recalls his service during the Civil War in the Confederate Army, Western Division, beginning in December 1861; scrapbook contains clippings, announcements, correspondence, programs about activities and members of Colorado...
Dates: 1865-1918

Jack Van Brunt oral history

 Collection
Identifier: C MSS OH239
Scope and Contents

The interview provides information and personal observations about Jack Van Brunt's experiences training at Camp Hale, Colo. and Fort Carson, Colo. when he was assigned to the Mountain and Cold Weather Training Center

Dates: no date

James Beatty Letter

 Collection
Identifier: M42
Scope and Contents

Collection contains notes about Colorado Society for the Friendless, organized Oct. 22, 1903 to aid discharged or paroled prisoners. Also includes notes about the formation of Denver City Baseball Club League.

Dates: 1903

LaVern O. Trepp oral history

 Collection
Identifier: C MSS OH238
Scope and Contents

The interview provides information and personal observations about his correspondence written during military service: early skiing experience, and experiences as a member of the 87th Mountain Division; post-war activities.

Dates: no date

Lee L. Snyder Papers

 Collection
Identifier: M2033
Scope and Contents

The collection contains correspondence from the relatives of the soldiers commanded by Snyder who had been killed at the Lake Garda tragedy (1945); notes from field artillery school (n.d.).

Dates: 1942-1946

Leo J. Kohlman oral history

 Collection
Identifier: C MSS OH221
Scope and Contents The interview provides biographical information and personal observations about Kohlman's experiences as a member of the 10th Mountain Division: civilian background as a working cowboy, rodeo performer and skier; entered the Army at age 30, immediately volunteered for the ski troops and was assigned to the 87th Regiment as an armorer in the supply unit; participated in the Kiska operation, and relates experiences including thoughts on the friendly fire episode, poor leadership and various...
Dates: no date

Nancy Tarter Oral History

 Collection
Identifier: OH237
Scope and Contents The interview provides information and personal observations about Nancy Tarter experiences with the 10th Mountain Division during World War II: Nancy worked in the Signal Corps but had worked for the Associated Press as a telephone/telegraph operator -- she recalls one story of her husband sneaking back from a training exercise to spend a night with her, which was a court martial offense; .being assigned to Alamogordo, N.M. she wrote the first story, dictated to her by General Arnold, about...
Dates: 1994

Natalie Curtis Burlin Papers

 Collection
Identifier: WH2284
Scope and Contents

Collection contains Curtis' notes, correspondence, short stories, histories, transcriptions, translations, and original music manuscripts documenting the following American Indian tribes: Yuma, Navajo, Zuni, Winnebago, Apache, Kiowa, Pawnee, Cheyenne, Arapaho, Dakota, Mojave, Kwakintl, Pima, San Juan Pueblo, Wabonaki, Penobscot. Included are notes and typescripts related to her book: Songs of Ancient America (1905).

Dates: 1902-1948

Ned Blair History Talk

 Collection
Identifier: M1133
Scope and Contents

Collection contains an audiocassette of Blair's talk to Tom Noel's class during a tour of Leadville, Colo.; includes index and notes of tape content.

Dates: 1982

Paul R. Lafferty and John Skillern oral history

 Collection
Identifier: C MSS OH224
Scope and Contents

The interview provides information and personal observations about the 10th Mountain Division: the origins of the 10th Mountain Division; Lafferty and Skillern discuss prominent people in early days of skiing and the origins of the Mountain Training Center (the first choice was actually Henry Lake, Wyo.). They also discuss testing of mountain equipment, clothing and rations; training other combat troops in rock climbing and mountaineering skills

Dates: circa 1987

Paul R. Lafferty oral history

 Collection
Identifier: C MSS OH223
Scope and Contents The interview provides biographical information and personal observations about Lafferty's experiences with the 10th Mountain Division: cowboy and mountaineer experience prior to entering the Army; experiences in the Mountain Training Center, in the 87th Infantry Regiment, and as commander of Company A, 86th Battalion; building and establishment of Camp Hale, Colo.; testing of new snow equipment; and at one time was put in charge of 25 mules, two horses and the K-9 group. He also...
Dates: no date

Pete Seibert and Bob Parker oral history

 Collection
Identifier: C MSS OH244
Scope and Contents The interview provides information and personal observations about the Italian campaign and the challenges and importance of the battle of Riva Ridge; how the capture of Riva Ridge denied the Germans their control of the "Gothic Line"; German Army of Southern European surrendered before the total German surrender; after the war, the nucleolus of the American ski industry was made up of 10th veterans, "98% of the ski talent in the U.S." was from the 10th Mountain Division, including about a...
Dates: no date

Richard C. Over oral history

 Collection
Identifier: C MSS OH231
Scope and Contents Copy of interview originally broadcast on Denver, Colo. radio station KMVP's Radio Ski Show. The interview provides information and personal observations about Over's experiences with the 10th Mountain Division during World War II: making of the television documentary: Soldiers of the Summit, produced by KRMA, Channel 6, which was shown on Colorado Adventures, and later nationally on PBS; skiing background prior to entering the Army; organization, training, and equipping of the 10th Mountain...
Dates: 1990s

Richard D. Lamm Speech

 Collection
Identifier: M888
Scope and Contents

Collection contains the working notes and final draft of speech given at Denver (Colo.) Public Library Friends Foundation dinner.

Dates: 1986

Robert Audretsch Papers

 Collection
Identifier: CONS274
Scope and Contents

Contains notes, photographs and research materials

Dates: 1933-2017

William P. Lehman oral history

 Collection
Identifier: C MSS OH225
Scope and Contents

The interview provides information and personal observations about Lehman's experiences with the 10th Mountain Division during World War II: two stories related to combat; humorous experiences; trips he made during R&R.

Dates: no date