Oral history interview with Harvey McKee by Mike Brown [Transcript]

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Title Oral history interview with Harvey McKee by Mike Brown [Transcript]
Creator McKee, Harvey, Brown, Mike
Publisher Utah Historical Society
Date 1977-09-08
Access Rights Utah Historical Society
Date Digital 2024-05-02
Spatial Coverage Maeser, Uintah County, Utah, United States https://www.geonames.org/5777780/maeser.html City of Vernal, Uintah, Utah, United States https://www.geonames.org/7174628/city-of-vernal.html
Subject Baseball; Basketball; Bishops; Children; Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; Coal mines and mining; Dairy farms; Dances; Education; Farms; Grazing rights; Great Depression; Hogs; Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919; Marriage; Motion pictures; Mutual Improvement Associations; Oil industries--United States; Parents; Personal narratives; Sheep farming; Siblings; Theaters; World War I; Maeser (Utah); Uintah County (Utah); Uintah High School (Vernal, Utah)
Description Oral history interview by Mike Brown with Harvey McKee. Topics include: Personal background information including place of birth, parents, siblings, education and growing up in Maeser, Utah; How his father got his start in farming and the sheep and cattle business; World War I; The 1918-1919 Flu epidemic; Playing sports in school such as baseball and basketball; Going church activities like dances; Attending Uintah High School; Seeing movies at the Orpheus and Vogue Theaters; His first job doing road work; The Great Depression; Working in the coal mines; The development of the oil and shale business in Vernal; Marriage and children; Bartering for goods; Raising hogs; Running a small dairy; Permits for cattle grazing; Selling milk and cream; Farming; The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; Serving as Bishop for his ward; Requirements for Grade A dairy status; Performing lots of marriages after WWII
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 23 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/s6j8e9hm
Setname dha_uhsoh
ID 2535904
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6j8e9hm