ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I could not possibly have written this book without the help of at least 100 other people. I do not have space to thank each person individually, but I hope those I left out know how grateful I am for their willingness to share their pictures and stories.

Special thanks are in order for research assistant Jim Snitzer, who volunteered to scan all the images. I owe him a dinner at Charlie Clark’s. Many thanks to Marion Hansen, who shared pictures, journals, and diaries he has collected of Lakeside pioneer families.

Some contributors were the direct descendants of early Pinetop-Lakeside pioneers, including Ferrell Fish, Raymond Johnson, Sue and Sonny Penrod, Jack Reed, Bobbie Stephens Hunt, Anthony Cooley, Lonnie Amos West, Pam Fish-Tyler, the Webb family, Arlene Mcabe, Louise Willis, Loretta Lee Jennings, Nancy Stone, Renee Penrod, Anna Jackson, Hazel West Fish Gillespie, Arlene Fish McCabe, Leo Petersen and Wanda Petersen Tenney, Louise Johnson McCleve, Norma Larson, Melba and Anna Gardner, Anne Snoddy-Suguitan, Maryann Scorse Coulter, and Craig Hansen.

Thanks to Jack Wood of White Mountain Computers, who kept my computer cruising and contributed images.

Professional photographers who graciously gave me permission to use their photographs were David Widmaier, Vennie White, Lloyd Pentecost, and Judi Bassett. Steve Taylor and Bill Lundquist contributed original artwork. Author Gene Luptak shared photographs and information from his book Top o’ the Pines. Author Robert Moore sent us digital images from The Civilian Conservation Corps in Arizona’s Rim Country. Greg Tock, editor and publisher of the White Mountain Independent, not only let us use his copyrighted images, he also tracked them down! Some of the contributors with second- and third-generation connections to Pinetop-Lakeside are Gary Butler, Gary Renfro, Gloria Guenther, Diana Butler, Georgia Dysterheft, Jo Ann Hatch, Maxine Ann Turnbull, and Julie Wilbur West.

First-generation Pinetop-Lakeside contributors include Bev Garcia, Bonnie Lane, Bill and Tricia Gibson, Mary Ellen and Chuck Bittorf, Ginny and Jerry Handorf, Brenda Mead Crawford, Julie Aylor, Johnnie Fay McQuillan, Mark Sterling, Dwayne Walker, Kevin Rowell, Betty Jarrett, Lynda Marble, Phil Hayes, and Geoff Williams.

Federal, state, and local agencies have been of great help, especially the USDA-Forest Service, the Arizona Game and Fish Department, the Pinetop Fire Department, the Lakeside Fire Department, and the Pinetop-Lakeside Police Department. The White Mountain Sheriff’s Posse provided many good images.

Public institutions are always major contributors to a book like this, and I thank the Navajo County Library District, the Pinetop-Lakeside Library, the Snowflake Heritage Foundation, the Pinetop-Lakeside Historical Society Museum, the Victorian, and the Show Low Historical Society Museum.

My thanks go out posthumously to historians Leora Petersen Schuck and Ben Hansen for their many wonderful stories of the Lakeside pioneers.

Most of all, I thank God for creating this beautiful place.