Oral history interview with Briant Stringham by Mike Brown [2] [Transcript]

Oral history interview by Mike Brown with Briant Stringham. Topics inlcude: The Echo Park Dam controversy; Water rights; Moab, Utah; Working with the assistant to the Interior Secretary; USe of a stenoype in the courthouse; Dinosaur National Monument expansion; Traveling back and forth to Washinton, D.C. to get support for Echo Park Dam; Echo Park Dam proposal passing in the Senate but not passing in the House of Representatives; Going up against big money and environmentalists; Eventual approval for Flaming Gorge Dam and the celebrations that followed in Vernal; Serving on boards and acting as chairman for multiple organizations; Fundraising efforts; Hiring lobbyists; Many local people paying for their own travel expenses; Receiving donations; Hiring the best advertising agency; Other benefits that the Flaming Gorge project provided Vernal such as Steinaker Dam, Red Fleet Reservoir, a valley-wide water system and drainage for soggey land; Ernest Untermann speaking at committee meetings; Bry's cousin, Clare Westover being the first white baby born in Vernal area; 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 he made himself; What Bry was doing at the end of World War I and World War II; Being to skinny to pass the physical exam to enter the military; and not being affceted by the 1918-1919 Influenza epidemic.