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INTERVIEWS

All transcripts include the first track  of all audio.
Complete audio is on The Portal to Texas History

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Chapter 1
Who Are These People?
RONNIE ROBERTS LUTHER PIERCE
Chapter 2
The Migration
No interview cited in this chapter
Chapter 3
The Clans in the Hills
LORENZ BADING
Chapter 4
The Early Twentieth Century
ALBERT BOATRIGHT JOHN T BOATRIGHT with MARY BOATRIGHT FLOYD CANTWELL BETTY HENRY RALEY & WALLACE with HAGOOD BOB WILLESS ALICE PATTERSON OESTRICK Margie Carlton Simons, Preston Carlton, and Princeton Simons
Chapter 5
Cedar and Survival
STANLEY ALLEN BARNEY BAKER MORRIS BONNET LEE CANTRELL JOHN HOOVER CHARLIE MAUGHAM GUTHRIE O'DONNELL STONEY TEAGUE
Chapter 6
Fencing the West
KENNETH BERTLING LEE McKINNERNEY TM PEARSON SIMON RATLIFF DICK TURNER
Chapter 7
The Life of a Cedar Chopper
DON HIBBITTS GENNY KERCHEVILLE MILTON LENTZ KERRY RUSSELL EARLEEN SIMONS
Chapter 8
So Close, Yet So Far Away
No interview cited in this chapter
Chapter 9
The Demise of the Cedar Choppers
PETE KAUFMAN

Additional Transcripts & Audio
*not quoted in book

KEN AULT* RAYMOND MOORE*

Additional Audio

new, after publication of book

Loretta Guest Pirson
is the daughter of Cleo Victor Guest and Thelma Mae Boatright. His parents were John Wesley Guest and Ida Mae Shannon, and hers Dick Boatright and Carrie Mae Williams.

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