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 |