Title |
Oral history interview with Silvia Harris Ekker by Bette L. Stanton |
Creator |
Ekker, Silvia Harris; Stanton, Bette L. |
Publisher |
Utah Historical Society |
Date |
1996-09-03; 1996-09-05; 1997 |
Access Rights |
Utah Historical Society |
Date Digital |
2024-05-01 |
Spatial Coverage |
Town of Hanksville, Wayne County, Utah, United States https://www.geonames.org/7175139/town-of-hanksville.html Grand County, Utah, United States https://www.geonames.org/5539784/grand-county.html |
Subject |
Basketball; Cafés; Cattle; Children; Christmas; Great Depression; Jury duty; Marriage; Outlaws; Parents; Personal narratives; Poker; Polio; Quilts; Ranching; Rural life; Scarlet fever; Sheep; Siblings; Studebaker automobile; Teachers; Theft; Uranium ores; Ute Indians; Wool; World War II; Elgin (Utah); Grand County (Utah); Hanksville (Utah); Oakland (Calif.) |
Description |
Oral history interview by Bette L. Stanton with Silvia Harris Ekker. Topics include: Personal background information including place of birth, parents, siblings, spouse, children, education; and growing up in Elgin, Utah; Interactions with the local Natives; Stories about local sheep wars; Family and neighbor Christmas celebrations; Wildlife in the area; Feeding transients during the Great Depression; An Aunt who became known as the Cattle Queen of the Colorado Plateau and was excellent at cards, especially poker; Her grandmother's profits from a mining interest being stolen; Attending a year of high school in Oakland, CA; having scarlet fever; Being on the high school girls basketball team; Staying at the family ranch during the summer; Riding buckboard wagons; Her father purchasing a seven passenger Studebaker; Accompanying her father in court for jury duty; Meeting the outlaw John Griffith (Blue John); Riding as a cowhand as a teenager with her father; Carding wool and making quilts; Teaching school; Marriage; Uranium mining; Children; Her younger brother, Larry, being killed in action during WWII; Two of her sons having polio; Running a café; and hard work. |
Collection Number and Name |
Mss B 1007 Grand County (Utah) Historical Preservation Human History Program Collection |
Type |
Text |
Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
Format |
application/pdf |
Extent |
42 leaves |
Language |
eng |
Rights |
|
Source |
Mss B 1007 Grand County (Utah) Historical Preservation Human History Program Collection |
Scanning Technician |
Michelle Gollehon |
Metadata Cataloger |
Amy Green Larsen |
ARK |
ark:/87278/s6b661qs |
Setname |
dha_uhsoh |
ID |
2514194 |
Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6b661qs |