Lee C. Myers was born in Chanute, Kansas on June 28, 1902. He came to the southwest and worked as a machinist in the late 1920s and early 1930s, employed by the Kennecott Copper Corporation. In 1940, Myers moved to Carlsbad, New Mexico, where he worked as a machinist for United States Potash Company until his retirement in 1967. He also opened his own business, The Carlsbad Grinding Works, which he operated until 1957. Myers started researching New Mexican history in the 1950s by conducting oral histories of the old-timers from the mines. He researched local history and frontier military forts. He authored more than a hundred articles and booklets. In 1974, Myers compiled a six year project about the creation of Eddy, New Mexico (now Carlsbad), entitled "The Pearl of the Pecos."
Part of the Lee C. Myers Papers, Ms 0024, this collection of oral history tapes includes interviews, speeches, and readings of articles.
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Alvarez, Cruz
Interviewed in Mesilla, New Mexico, 1977
Tape # RG-T15
Bond, Damon
Interviewed April 3, 1977
Tape # RG-T490
Brito, Santiago and Mary Taylor
Interview not dated
Tape # RG-T59
Brito, Santiago, Mary Taylor and Guy O. Gwin
Interviewed in 1979, 1980
Tape # RG-T50
Brown, Grace and Mabel Brunson
Interviewed in Eddy (Carlsbad), New Mexico, 1975
Tape # RG-T493
Brown, Grace, Mabel Brunson, and Josephine Hendley
Interview not dated
Tape # RG-T494
Campbell, "Doc"
Interviewed in Hot Springs, New Mexico on June 10, 1978
Tape # RG-T26
Carlisle, Myrtle
Interviewed in Deming, New Mexico on August 10, 1979
Tape # RG-T32
Class, Cecil C.
Interviewed on January 13, 1975
Tape # RG-T491
Dannelly, Claude and Effie
Interviewed on March 6, 1981
Tape # RG-T487
Gage, John and Francis Collins
Interviewed on August 27, 1977
Tape # RG-T13
Gunderson, Harry, Bugler
Interviewed on September 18, 1978
Tape # RG-T24
Harrington, Mrs. Flora Flury, Annie Flury Delk, and Anita Franks
Interviewed from May 11-13, 1979
Tape # RG-T31
Howell, Louis “Red”
Interviewed in Sonoita, Arizona, on April 30, 1975
Tape # RG-T492
Howell, Jim
Interviewed in Seven Rivers, New Mexico in March 1977
Tape # RG-T495
Lucas, Robert
Interviewed in 1978
Tape # RG-T21
Meyers, Kenneth "Red"
Interviewed in 1978
Tape # RG-T23
Snyder, Ruben
Interviewed on July 29, 1978
Tape # RG-T484
Thompson, Jack
Interviewed on August 11, 1976
Tape # RG-T14
SPEECHES
“20th Century Mountain Man”
Meyers reading, Not dated
Tape # RG-T489
Braddy, Dr. Haldeen
Columbus, New Mexio, March 11, 1978
Tape # RG-T482 (Side A)
Daughters of the American Revolution, State Chapter (?) 58th Conference
March 3, 1978
Tape # RG-T482 (Side B)
Hart, Colonel Herbert
Speech, n.d.
Tape # RG-T483
Myers, Lee C.
Speech at Carlsbad Senior Center, June 16, 1973
Tape # RG-T 488
Myers, Lee C.
Fort Stanton, New Mexico, March 18, 1978
Tape # RG-T 56
Service, Robert W.
Selections, Meyers reading
Tape # RG-T486
Tracey, F. G. Daily Current-Argus article
Progress edition, 1936
Tape # RG-T481