Oral history interview with Vera Showalter Gee and Gus Gee by Liz Sowards. [Transcript]

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Title Oral history interview with Vera Showalter Gee and Gus Gee by Liz Sowards. [Transcript]
Creator Gee, Vera Showalter; Gee, Gus; Sowards, Liz
Publisher Utah Historical Society
Date 2000
Access Rights Utah Historical Society
Date Digital 2024-05-02
Spatial Coverage City of Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States https://www.geonames.org/11788893/city-of-salt-lake-city.html City of Vernal, Uintah, Utah, United States https://www.geonames.org/7174628/city-of-vernal.html
Subject Brigham Young University; Cattle ranches; Children; Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; Colorado; Parents; Family; Home ownership; Marriage; Oil industries--United States; Personal narratives; Retirement; Service stations; Sheep farming; Siblings; Teachers; Theaters; Salt Lake City, Utah; Uintah County (Utah ); Vernal (Utah)
Description Oral history interview by Liz Sowards with Vera Showalter. Topics include: Personal background information including place of birth, parents, siblings, and growing up in Vernal, Utah. Her father's decision to enter the sheep industry; Establishing a sheep and cattle ranch on Brush Creek and establishing a home in Vernal; Building, owning and operating the Orpheus Theater for thirteen years; Selling the theater to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day saints; Selling the ranch in Brush Creek and purchasing a ranch in Colorado; Purchasing a Ford garage shop; Vera meeting her future husband at BYU; Living in Provo and moving to Vernal so they could both to teach school; Raising their children; Children's education; Children's spouses and families; Buying and selling homes; Moving to Salt Lake; Gus' move from teaching to the Oil industry; Changes in Vernal over the years since their retirement and move to Salt Lake; Changes in the oil industry and the economic consequences
Collection Number and Name Mss B 1637 Uintah County (Utah) Oral Histories Collection, 1974-2002
Type Text
Genre oral histories (literary works)
Format application/pdf
Extent 13 leaves
Language eng
Rights
Source Mss B 1637 Uintah County (Utah) Oral Histories Collection, 1974-2002
Scanning Technician Michelle Gollehon
Metadata Cataloger Amy Green Larsen
ARK ark:/87278/s6e95859
Setname dha_uhsoh
ID 2535900
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6e95859