Oral history interview with Mabel Nebeker about Tabby Weep White by Robert "Bob" Foster [Transcript]

Oral history interview by Robert "Bob" Foster with Mable Nebeker. Topics include: Ute Indian gunfighter, Tabby Weep White; His use of several names; His shooting of Beldon "Bob" Reynolds and subsequent murder conviction and life prison sentence; The lawless Vernal strip full of saloons and shoot-outs; A law against selling liquor to the Native population; Bootlegging; Tabby's constant state of drunkeness; Tabby's unknown wherabouts after an eight-year parole; His death in 1940 and burial in the Fort Duchesne Indian cemetary; Tabby's reputation as a gunman and reportedly, one of the fastest draws; Outlaw sitings; The lawless Duchesne strip with saloons, stores, and a dance hall; How the strip was removed from the Indian revervation land so white me could mine Gilsonite; A bridge across the river in Fort Duchesne; Black calvary troops stationed at Fort Duchesne; Gangs of outlaws such as Butch Cassidy; the Sundance Kid, Elza Lay, Bub Meeks, and Kid Curry and stories of their heists; The outlaws friendly relations with the ranchers; Talkof Butch Cassiidy's whereabouts; People being frightened of Tabby after he returned from prison; Relationships between white settlers and Native population; Ute Indains camping in Mable's father's patures; The Bear River Massacre; Mabel and her husband living in Ouray when they had a mail contract; The Intermountain Indian School; A Uintah Band Ute Indian in Whiterocks punishment for accidently killing his mother; and Indian policemen.