Digitized audio recording of an oral memoir by Ruth L. Van Beber, recorded in 12 sessions from October 12, 1992 to May 7, 1993. Van Beber recounts her life story, including her childhood; experience in a Salvation Army Home for Wayward Girls; hitchhiking across the country during the Depression; homesteading in Oregon; running cafes; and the 1964 earthquake in Alaska.