Oral history interview with Briant Stringham by Mike Brown [1] [Transcript]

Oral history interview by Mike Brown with Briant Stringham. Topics include: Grandparents, parents; and sibling; Bry's Grandfather being in the advance party with Brigham Young and the pioneers who entered the Salt Lake Valley on July 24, 1847; The practice of polygamy; Bry's grandfather having three wives; Death of an aunt in childbirth and Bry's parents traveling from Antelope Island to Vernal and adopting the infant; Bry's mother nursing the new baby and her own child; Bry's father's decision to claim a homestead near Ashley creek and building a house of bricks that me made himsel; Growing up near Vernal; farming, raising cattle and, going in to the sheep business; Cattle thieves in Brown's Park; Not attending school until the age of nine because Bry was needed on the farm; Walking or riding a pony to school; Enjoying being able to visit neighbor friends after farm chores werer finished; Horse racing; Getting into trouble as a teenager; What Vernal looked like when Bry was a kid; Having more saloons that grocery stores; Interations with the Native Americans; Soldiers at Fort Duchesne; Bry having 300 sheep killed and threatened by cow men to get out of the Dinosaur, Colorado area; Cattle-Sheepman wars; The murder of John Durnell and a trial in Grand Junction; Feeling better with a gun by his side; Effects of the Great Depression; Making do in hard times; Shipping hay in from Kansas; Transportation of livestock; Using John Jarvie's ferry service to get sheep acros the Green River; Service on BLM Board, State Board, Grazing Board, and National Board for livestock use of the range; Bry's love of fishin gin the high Uintahs and hunting sage chickens and phesants; Changes in grazing from free range to allotments; Being blessed with a long and healthy life; How Diamond Mountain got it's name from a hoax; Stories of buried treasures; and Bry's father assistance in the building the first canal.