Box 1
Contains 21 Results:
Ralph Chew, 1978
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.
William Wallis, 1977
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.
Lowell Wardle, 1977
Background and genealogy, handling bricks, hauling freight, gilsonite mines, coal mining, the Depression, shearing sheep. Interviewed by Mike Brown. 12 pages.
Russ Montgomery, 1977
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.
Mr. and Mrs. Morgan Merkley, 1978
Trading with Wong Sing, losing stock in hard winters, influenza epidemic of 1918, Pete and Elmer Dillman, Interviewed by Mike Brown. 7 pages.
Hilda Faulkner
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.
Iva Holmes
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.
Rosalie Burton, 1978
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.
Harvey McKee, 1977
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.
Alfred Simper, 1977
Lumber business, payment in kind for tithing, hauling freight, neighbors. Interviewed by Diedra Northern. 5 pages.