Alice Hall Presentation

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Title Alice Hall Presentation
Creator Hall, Alice
Publisher Utah Historical Society
Date 1981-11-11
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 Arts; Business transactions; Community action; Crop losses; Death; Diaries; Entertainment events; Flour mills; Freight and freightage; Libraries; Mail; Personal narratives; Pioneers; Poetry; Politics; Snow; Theater; Wildlife; Uintah County (Utah ); Vernal (Utah)
Description Presentation about the history of Vernal by Alice Hall. Topics include: Poetry; William B. Reynolds's old flour mill and its significance in local business affairs, politics; and entertainment; The difficulties of pioneering; Journaling; What the hard winter of 1879 was like and its impact on Vernal as well as North America; Death of all buffalo on the plains; Loss of large percentages of elk, deer, antelope, and cattle; Loss of crops to grasshoppers and excessive snowfall; How the community worked together to survive the devastation; Theater and Arts; The library; Freight wagons; and what the mail service in Vernal was like.
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 5 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/s6x21ym2
Setname dha_uhsoh
ID 2535901
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6x21ym2
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