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

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.