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Box 1

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Contains 21 Results:

Ralph Chew, 1978

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents

Growing up in Brown's Park, serving aboard the USS Minneapolis in World War I, settling the Chew Ranch, buying the Chapman place, Pat Lynch, the Jarvie family, location of old buildings. Interviewed by Roy Webb. 21 pages.

Dates: 1978

William Wallis, 1977

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
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Coming to Vernal about 1917, running the Roosevelt Standard before taking over management of the Vernal Express, the newspaper business.Interviewed by Mike Brown. 8 pages.

Dates: 1977

Lowell Wardle, 1977

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
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Background and genealogy, handling bricks, hauling freight, gilsonite mines, coal mining, the Depression, shearing sheep. Interviewed by Mike Brown. 12 pages.

Dates: 1977

Russ Montgomery, 1977

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
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Childhood near Meeker, Colorado. An accidental shooting, sale of the farm and journey to Idaho, a rodeo in Rawlins, marriage and working cattle, working for Charley Crubine in Nevada, the I.W.W., trapping coyotes in Wyoming, the ghost of Cedar View Reservoir, Vernal old-timers. Interviewed by Mike Brown. 16 pages.

Dates: 1977

Mr. and Mrs. Morgan Merkley, 1978

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
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Trading with Wong Sing, losing stock in hard winters, influenza epidemic of 1918, Pete and Elmer Dillman, Interviewed by Mike Brown. 7 pages.

Dates: 1978

Hilda Faulkner

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
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Background and childhood in Vernal, family involvement in the LDS Church, teaching in Vernal, marriage and ranching, death of her husband, raising her children in Vernal, second marriage, death of her youngest son, divorce, involvement in church activities and senior citizens organizations, description of children and grandchildren, looking back over her life. Monologue. 13 pages.

Dates: 1976-1978

Iva Holmes

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
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Family background, childhood on a homestead, making brick, stories about Indians, courtship and marriage, Jake Workman, coyotes, starting a sheep herd, lonliness on the homestead, raising children. Interviewed by Mike Brown. 18 pages.

Dates: 1976-1978

Rosalie Burton, 1978

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents

Birth in Kentucky and arrival of the family in Brown's Park in 1905, schooling, marriage and childreen, Hy Bernard, Bassett family, cattle, the Depression, social life. Interviewed by Diedra Northern. 11 pages.

Dates: 1978

Harvey McKee, 1977

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
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Growing up in Jensen, flu epidemic, schooling in Maeser, social life, church-sponsored sports, movies, road construction, marriage, mining, cattle, dairy business, the Carroll family, the Depression, Roosevelt and the WPA, payment in kind, tithing, experience of being a bishop. Interviewed by Mike Brown. 20 pages.

Dates: 1977

Alfred Simper, 1977

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
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Lumber business, payment in kind for tithing, hauling freight, neighbors. Interviewed by Diedra Northern. 5 pages.

Dates: 1977

Leroy Carroll, 1976

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents

Background and genealogy, boyhood memories, death of his father, move to Logan, death of his brother, World War II and the draft, flu epidemic, social life in the 1920s, the Depression, the cattle killing program, Roosevelt. Interviewed by Mike Brown. 13 pages.

Dates: 1976

N. J. "Nick" Meagher Jr., 1978

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
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Story of N. J. Meagher Sr., opening of the bank in Vernal, water rights in Utah, shipping bricks through the United States Postal Service, herds owned by foreign mine workers, the Sunshine Ranch, the Depression, political views. Interviewed by Mike Brown. 13 pages.

Dates: 1978

Ralph Siddoway, 1978

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
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His father's move from Salt Lake City to Vernal in 1888, earlier settlers, polygamy, running a sawmill, non-Mormon bank, S. R. Bennion, politics, social life, hired girls. Interviewed by Mike Brown. 12 pages.

Dates: 1978

Charles Slaugh, 1977

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
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Homesteading in the Vernal area, running cows from a place on the Green River, hauling freight, working for the Two-Bar Ranch, early buildings in Vernal. Interviewed by Diedra Northern. 11 pages.

Dates: 1977

R. W. Jones

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents

Move to Colorado after World War II, trucking business, working for oil companies during the oil boom, Vernal as a boom town, running a business, government regulation. Interviewed by Mike Brown. 7 pages.

Dates: 1976-1978

Sue Watson, 1977

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents

Background and genealogy, trouble with an Indian Agent at the White Rocks Agency, growing up in Island Park, Idy Ackerat, sqatting versus homesteading, Thomas Lion, rustling Indian cattle, roundups, Charlie Goslin, Pat Lynch, Minnie Crouse. Interviewed by Mike Brown. 15 pages.

Dates: 1977

Sue Watson, 1977

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents

Childhood memories of Vernal, being a non-Mormon in school, Uncle Jake, Pete Dillman, her mother's story. Interviewed by Mike Brown. 20 pages.

Dates: 1977

B. H. Stringham, 1977

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 3
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Grandfather's association with Brigham Young, father's homestead near Ashley Creek Canyon, childhood on the farm, visiting neighbors, sheep business, homestead near Willow Creek, trouble with cattle men, John Darnell, Skull Creek Jones, drought, the Depression, overgrazing and the BLM, how Diamond Mountain got its name, treasure hunting. Interviewed by Mike Brown. 13 pages.

Dates: 1977

Minnie Crouse Rasmussen, 1978

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 3
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The Jarvie property, the Jarvie boys, the murder of John Jarvie, Indians in Brown's Park. Interviewed by Bill Tennant. 18 pages.

Dates: 1978

Dorothy Green, Iva Gray, Mada Dudley, Mary Wilson, Sue Watson, Laris Hunting, Ralph and Marsale Siddoway, 1978

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents

Ferries, ice harvesting, the Bear Lake monster, cattle, a jailbreak, settlers, rodeo. 33 pages.

Dates: 1978