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Box 1

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Contains 21 Results:

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
Scope and Contents 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
Scope and Contents 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
Scope and Contents 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
Scope and Contents 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
Scope and Contents 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