Oral history interview with Tyrell R. Seager and Dorothy Hodson Seager by Kathleen Irving [Transcript]

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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
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