Oral history interview with Morgan Merkley and Irma Carpenter Merkley by Mike Brown [Transcript]

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Title Oral history interview with Morgan Merkley and Irma Carpenter Merkley by Mike Brown [Transcript]
Creator Merkley, Morgan Carpenter; Merkley, Irma Carpenter; Brown, Mike
Publisher Utah Historical Society
Date 1978-02-09
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 Cattle; Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; Coal; Community; Co-ops (Cooperative societies); Dance halls; Economics; Grazing rights; Great Depression; Hay; Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919; Mortuaries; Native Americans; Personal narratives; Sheep farming; Sheep-shearing; Tabernacle; United States. President (1901-1909 : Roosevelt); United States. President (1933-1945 : Roosevelt); Wool; World War I; World War II; Taylor Mountain (Utah); Uintah County (Utah); Vernal (Utah)
Description Oral history interview by Mike Brown with Morgan Merkley and Irma Carpenter Merkley. Topics include: Interactions with businessmen; Trading, Native Americans, Raising sheep for wool; Economics, Running cattle; Trading a ton of hay for a cow; The flu epidemic of 1918-1919; Morgan driving a hearse for the local Mortuary, Hauling coal, Various people in the community, Attending dances, Going to town to visit the shops, Building of the Tabernacle, Attending pageants and concerts at the Tabernacle, Running cattle on Taylor Mountain in the summer, Permits for grazing, A drought in 1934, Emergency livestock reductions by the U.S. Government, Farmer's Co-Operatives, and recollections of World War I and World War II.
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/s678hr7m
Setname dha_uhsoh
ID 2535907
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s678hr7m
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