Title |
Oral history interview with Tyrell R. Seager and Dorothy Hodson Seager by Kathleen Irving [Transcript] |
Creator |
Seager, Tyrell R.; Irving, Kathleen |
Publisher |
Utah Historical Society |
Date |
2001-09-26 |
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 |
Anesthesia; Botany; Carnegie Institute; Children; Dinosaurs; Field houses; Fishing; Flaming Gorge Dam (Utah); Gravel road; Hospitals; Injuries; Leisure; Lions Club (Vernal, Utah); Medical doctor; Medical offices; Medical schools; Obstetrics; Parents; Personal narratives; Spouses;Surgeons; University of Pennsylvania; Book Cliffs (Utah and Colo.); Uintah County (Utah); Vernal (Utah) |
Description |
Oral history interview by Kathleen Irving with Tyrell R. Seager and Dorothy Hodson Seager. Topics include: Parents, spouse, and children; Practicing medicine in Nevada and Utah; Unpaved roads; Making the move to Vernal for a position as general surgeon and finding a house; Different of anesthesia; General practice and obstetrics; Women withstanding pain better than men; Different types of injuries requiring surgery; Being a company doctor for American Gilsonite; Chevron, a lumber company, and other small businesses; Different locations for medical offices; Descriptions of the hospital; Leisure time and pack trips to the High Uintas on horseback; Fishing; Stocking the lakes with fish; Serving as president of the Chamber of Commerce; Pheasant hunting; Joining the Lions Club; The building of the Utah Field House of Natural History; Organizing the Knife and Fork club; Assisting in bringing back a diplodocus skeleton cast to Vernal for the Field House; Carnegie Institute; The Dinosaur Gardens development; Collection of rocks from Book Cliffs; Flaming Gorge Dam; Petroglyphs and having a solar site name after him; and his love of botany and taking people of tours of the Uintah Mountains to see the wildflowers. |
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 |
15 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/s6zb8peq |
Setname |
dha_uhsoh |
ID |
2535926 |
Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6zb8peq |