Just ran across this blog. Wanted to let you know that my father, Joe Zumwalt was raised on the strip, his parents Edward Zumwalt and Georgia Lann-Zumwalt ran cattle up there for many years. He had a sister Evelyn (just passed away last Tuesday), and his brother Jimmy (also passed away years ago) My dad was born in 1932ish in St. George. He has tons of great stories and memories about growing up in that area, was great friends with the Bundy family too. I would love to put him in touch with anyone that lived up there then.

I think it would be really cool to arrange a reunion for anyone that lived on the strip sometime soon, and have a great weekend of story telling and sharing memories and making new ones and a little bluegrass music.

How could I get in touch with these folks?? If anyone reads this that would be interested in something like that please contact me. I would love to make a documentary for this.

Thanks
JoJo Zumwalt
Sacramento CA

Email W.I.S.E. for info on contacting JoJo

As oral histories they are worth much more than their literal content; they are treasures that rightfully belong to history and to all of us.

Cliff Gardner has done a remarkable and praiseworthy job of recording many such oral histories of Nevada. He and his wife Bertha have recently set up a website, The Gardner Files [here], that will contain many of these priceless pieces. I encourage you to visit The Gardner Files and search them out. Think of it as treasure hunting.

I placed these pieces in the Wildlife Sciences Colloquium because of their wildlife-oriented content. But I have also linked to The Gardner Files and to some other compelling rural voices at the Rural Culture Colloquium [here]. As time goes by I hope to add more. If you know of other excellent rural story sites, please let me know, and I will add to those links.