Amy MacKnight Lube Allen Presentation about Josie Bassett Morris [Transcript]

Presentation given about Josie Bassett Morris by Amy MacKnight Lube Allen to the Uintah County County Historical Society. Topics include: Personal background information of Josie Bassett Morris, including birth in Little Rock, Arkansas, parents, Moving to Brown's Park on Willow Creek and being surrounded by Ute Indians; Entertaining outlaws such as Butch Cassidy; Attending school in Brown's Park, Craig, and Salt Lake City; Returning home after the death of her mother; Caring for her father and siblings; Marriage; Children; Divorce; Being deeded a house in return for caring for her uncle; Gardening; Farming; Planting trees and flowers; Moving to Craig and running a boarding house; A second marriage and divorce; Returning to Brown's Park; A third marriage and divorce; A fourth marriage and death of her fourth husband; A fifth marriage and divorce and move to Jensen; Building a cabin in Cub Creek; Children and grandchildren; Ranching; and World War I.