Twenty-fifth Interview with Al Look: Life of George Crawford

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Al Look talks about the life of Grand Junction founder George Crawford. He speaks about Crawford’s youth in Pennsylvania, his career as a newspaperman, a politician, a town founder, and a business person. He discusses Crawford’s stance as an abolitionist and as part of the antislavery movement in Kansas prior to the Civil War. He describes Crawford’s founding of Ft. Scott and Emporia, Kansas, and of Grand Junction, Colorado. The interview was conducted by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration of Mesa County Libraries and the Museums of Western Colorado. *Public domain photograph.

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Title: Twenty-fifth Interview with Al Look: Life of George Crawford
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Subject: Kansas -- History, Abolitionists, Antislavery movements
Description: Al Look talks about the life of Grand Junction founder George Crawford. He speaks about Crawford’s youth in Pennsylvania, his career as a newspaperman, a politician, a town founder, and a business person. He discusses Crawford’s stance as an abolitionist and as part of the antislavery movement in Kansas prior to the Civil War. He describes Crawford’s founding of Ft. Scott and Emporia, Kansas, and of Grand Junction, Colorado. The interview was conducted by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration of Mesa County Libraries and the Museums of Western Colorado. *Public domain photograph.
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Date: 1982-, November 12, 2021
Type: Voice Recording
Format: 1 MP3 audio file (28:06) digitized from source material (Interview 494: Audiocassette 1); +1 transcript.
Identifier: mesa:1524, : OH 494 Look, Alfred A.
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Language: English
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Rights: http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC-EDU/1.0/?language=enlocalorganization:2Mesa County Librariesorganization:1040Museums of Western ColoradoThis Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). For rights management and/or licensing questions, please see http://www.copyright.gov/title17/ or http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/copyright-law Other inquiries may be sent to the Lloyd Files Research Library at the Museums of Western Colorado: https://museumofwesternco.com/contact/ Alternatively, inquiries may be sent to Mesa County Libraries: https://mesacountylibraries.org/aboutus/contact/English

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Twenty-fifth Interview with Al Look: Life of George Crawford

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