Oral history interview with Ralph Siddoway by Mike Brown [Transcript]

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Title Oral history interview with Ralph Siddoway by Mike Brown [Transcript]
Creator Siddoway, Ralph; Brown, Mike
Publisher Utah Historical Society
Date 1978-12-04
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 Grazing rights; Mayors; Naturalists; Personal narratives; State of California; United States. Congress; United States. Senate; Utah Power & Light Company; Water rights; Echo Park Dam (Colo.); Flaming Gorge Dam (Utah); Green River (Wyo.-Utah); Uintah County (Utah); Vernal (Utah); Washington (D.C.)
Description Oral history interview by Mike Brown with Ralph Siddoway. Topics include: The Echo Park Dam controversy; Being Mayor of Vernal; Culinary and irrigation water possibilities; Power; Talk of dams on the Green River; Traveling to Washington, D.C, to talk with congressman about interest in the Echo Park Dam project; Hearings and people of influence; Utah Power & Light; Naturalists opposed to changing the landscape; Water rights; State of California; Effects of Dam on Grazing permits; Building of Flaming Gorge Dam instead of Echo Park; and pros and cons of the change in plans.
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 7 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/s671b880
Setname dha_uhsoh
ID 2535929
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s671b880
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