Oral history interview with Cliff McCoy by Mike Brown [Transcript]

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Title Oral history interview with Cliff McCoy by Mike Brown [Transcript]
Creator McCoy, Cliff; Brown, Mike
Publisher Utah Historical Society
Date 1978-02-08
Access Rights Utah Historical Society
Date Digital 2024-05-02
Spatial Coverage City of Vernal, Uintah, Utah, United States https://www.geonames.org/7174628/city-of-vernal.html
Subject Central Utah Project. Vernal Unit; Children; Coyotes; Grazing rights; Great Depression; Immigrant workers; Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919; Marriage; Parents; Personal narratives; Sheep farming; Sheep-shearing; Sheep Wars, 1873-1921; Siblings; United States. President (1977-1981 : Carter); United States. President (1929-1933 : Hoover); United States. President (1933-1945 : Roosevelt); Works Progress (Organization); World War II; Uintah County (Utah); Vernal (Utah)
Description Oral history interview by Mike Brown by Cliff McCoy. Topics include: Personal background information including place of birth, parents, siblings, and growing up in Vernal, Utah; How his father got his start in the sheep business; Helping with livestock at an early age; Marriage and children; The logistics of moving sheep from one location to another; Sheep shearing; The hard winter of 1919 and others that followed; The 1918-1919 Flu epidemic; Greek immigrant workers; Sheep wars with cowboys; Taylor Grazing Act of 1934; Coyotes; Fish and game; Elk; Cattle; Changes in wool prices; The Great Depression; World War II; Franklin Delano Roosevelt; WPA; Politics; and the Central Utah Project (CUP).
Collection Number and Name Mss B 1637 Uintah County (Utah) Oral Histories Collection, 1974-2002
Type Text
Genre oral histories (literary works)
Format application/pdf
Extent 15 leaves
Language eng
Rights
Source Mss B 1637 Uintah County (Utah) Oral Histories Collection, 1974-2002
Scanning Technician Michelle Gollehon
Metadata Cataloger Amy Green Larsen
ARK ark:/87278/s635s1w0
Setname dha_uhsoh
ID 2535903
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s635s1w0
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