Description

Lois (Elva) was born in Oklahoma in 1912 and moved to Colorado in 1923. Her parents bought 320 acres in Skull Creek, near Vernal, Utah, and the family of ten children lived in a one room log cabin. She talks about: attending school in a one room school through eighth grade, taking care of siblings, food sources and preparation, play, homemade clothes, puberty, long distances to town, school, church, women's clubs, and deep winter snow. Lois married Bud Biles, a cowboy, at seventeen and settled in Red Wash (near Utah border). They were married for forty-nine years. She rode in rodeos with her husband. Her two daughters were born in Denver due to complications. She was married to her second husband, Everette Bair, for just two years before he died. Lois died in 1988.

Details

Title
Bair, Elva Lois Wells Biles
Creator
Bair, Elva Lois Wells Biles interviewee
Jones-Eddy, Julie interviewer
Date Created
6/20/84
Material Type
text
spoken word
still image
Form of Work
Interview
Subject (Person)
Bair, Elva Lois Wells Biles, 1912-1988
Subject (Topic)
Oral history
Women
History
Frontier and pioneer life
Women pioneers
Genre/Format
Personal narratives
Audio recording
Oral histories
Interviews
Geographic Coverage
Dinosaur (Colo.)
Skull Creek (Colo.)
Vernal (Utah)
Moffat County (Colo.)
Extent
4 text files (26 pages)
2 audio files (51 min.)
1 image file (color)
Language
English
Record Appears in
Special Collections > Women of Northwestern Colorado Oral History Collection
Notes
Oral histories were collected by Julie Jones-Eddy in 1983-1986. Permission forms were obtained at the time of interviews. This oral history collection of forty-seven interviews with women between the ages of sixty-five and ninety-five years of age is the result of a two year project begun in 1984. It was supported by a grant from the Colorado Endowment for the Humanities. In addition to the tape collection, the grant also funded the production of a videotape program which highlights selective portions from some of the interviews. "Women of Northwestern Colorado, 1890-1940: Glimpses of Our Lives" is available at Tutt Libray and other libraries around the state.The original files are housed in Special Collections, Tutt Library, Colorado College, R1000. Audio files: WAV and MP3 were processed from original cassette tapes using Soundforge; a Marantz 221 PMD cassette player/recorder. Settings recommended by the Colorado Digitization Project, Digital Audio Best Practices. Each tape is set at 96kHZ, 24 bits. Images: Scanned from photos and slides to JPEG. Text materials: Scanned to PDF and processed to PDF/A using Adobe Acrobat Professional.
Reproduction Note
reformatted digital
2/10/09
Standard Rights Statement
Copyright reserved, non-exclusive rights granted to Colorado College for distribution. Contact Colorado College Special Collections for more information (tuttspec@coloradocollege.edu).

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