Title |
Oral history interview with Charlie Slaugh by Diedra Northern [Transcript] |
Creator |
Slaugh, Charlie; Northern, Diedra |
Publisher |
Utah Historical Society |
Date |
1977-11-01 |
Access Rights |
Utah Historical Society |
Date Digital |
2024-05-02 |
Spatial Coverage |
City of Vernal, Uintah, Utah, United States https://www.geonames.org/7174628/city-of-vernal.html |
Subject |
Archery; Automobiles; Children; Cobblestone buildings; Cooking; Dinosaurs; Electricity; Family; Farms; Freight and freightage; Fruit trees; Gardening; Great Depression; Hunting; Kerosene; Korean War, 1950-1953; Marriage; Paralympic Games; Personal narratives; Running Water; Sons; Wheelchairs; Telephone; Wild horses; Works Progress Administration (U.S.); Uintah County (Utah); Vernal (Utah) |
Description |
Oral history interview by Diedra Northern with Charlie Slaugh. Topics include: His father's move to Vernal and building a rock house; Growing up without Life running water, electricity, telephones, or cars; Use of horse & wagons and kerosene lights; Gardening; Fruit trees; Raising hogs and beef; Hunting; Lack of money; Trading grain for clothes and needed supplies; Work with freight wagons; Marriage; Building his own home; Raising seven boys; His son, Dean, winning two gold medals in archery at the 1964 Tokyo Paralympics after being injured in the Korean War; Hauling dinosaur casts from Vernal to Salt Lake and back again; Various injuries sustained from hauling freight; Working odd jobs as a teenager; Running cattle; Chasing and catching wild horses; Adventures with his brother; Saving a cow from the mud; An old neighbor that lived in a dugout; The Great Depression; WPA work on a reservoir and a duck pond; Poor health; Hunting with family; Having multiple sons in the construction business; Various family homes; Attending dances in a school house and a dance hall; Constructing a new church building; Working for Bishop Simper baling hay; Riding in a runaway wagon; and how to cook morning doves and rabbits. |
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 |
9 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/s6xmm32g |
Setname |
dha_uhsoh |
ID |
2535934 |
Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6xmm32g |