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Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Interview RHC009 with Max, Merlin, and Monte Tanner, July 5, 1985, 1985 July 5, 2006 November 29

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Identifier: USULgcc-rhc009
Abstract Interview with brothers Max, Merlin, & Monte Tanner at Max Tanner's home in Grouse Creek, 5 July 1985 (pt. 1): family history; ranching; Brezeeze Ranch; Indians; Utah Construction; outlaw stories: Sid Paskett and Diamond Field Jack. Substantial amounts of rumble (microphone handling?) and occasional traffic passing by. Children playing and other voices and activity in background. The interviewees are hard to hear over the background noises at times. Interviewer (Hal Cannon) is quite...
Dates: 1985 July 5; Digitization: 2006 November 29

Interview RHC018 with Thelma and Wallace Betteridge, Raida Kimber, and George Betteridge, July 16, 1985, 1985 July 16, 2006 November 29

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Identifier: USULgcc-rhc018
Abstract

Interview with Thelma & Wallace Betteridge, Raida Kimber, & George Betteridge at Raida Kimber's home (pt. 2): in Grouse Creek, 16 July 1985: rodeo; religion; stories about Indian Jack and Jim; dances; family home. Channels are out of phase on tape. Levels shift at beginning of reel. Some low machine noise in background. Occasional low-frequency rumbles. Total duration: 33 minutes.

Dates: 1985 July 16; Digitization: 2006 November 29

Interview RHC025 with Orin Kimber, July 26, 1985, 1985 July 26, 2006 November 29

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Identifier: USULgcc-rhc025
Abstract

Interview with Oren "Dutch" Kimber at his in Grouse Creek, 26 July 1985 (pt. 2): ranching; hunting; sheep herding and sheep herders: Basque and French; story of Indian Jim. Microphone handling noises at 21:30. Woman speaker is far off-microphone and soft. Tail cut off. Total duration: 33 minutes.

Dates: 1985 July 26; Digitization: 2006 November 29

Oral history of Isaac Owen Rogers, 1981, 2006 March

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Identifier: MSM97-181
Abstract Born in Mesa in 1903, Rogers tells of how his family was sent by Brigham Young to colonize Arizona. His father, Isaac Higby Rogers, worked as a blacksmith and invented a new device to shoe mules. He recalls details of farming with no machinery and home life with no electricity or running water. They used wet burlap to keep milk, eggs and butter cool. Rogers' grandfather was president of the Indian mission of the Mormon church, and Rogers gives a lot of detail about the daily life of Native...
Dates: 1981; Digitization: 2006 March

Oral history of Lelah Schornick, 1976 May 5, 2006 March

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Identifier: MSM97-184
Abstract Schornick tells of her family's move to Mesa from Cherryville, Kansas, in 1909, to help her father's bronchiectasis. She recalls crops grown in those days: almonds, peaches, cantaloupe, citrus, dates. There were many ostrich farms and they ate ostrich eggs. She also talks about keeping cool by sleeping outside and wrapping water jars in wet burlap. Schornick married her husband Eugene (Gene), in 1917, and they had two children. Gene fought in World War II and retired from a career at Salt...
Dates: 1976 May 5; Digitization: 2006 March

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Grouse Creek (Utah) -- Social life and customs 3
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