Oral history interview with Silvia Harris Ekker by Bette L. Stanton

Oral history interview by Bette L. Stanton with Silvia Harris Ekker. Topics include: Personal background information including place of birth, parents, siblings, spouse, children, education; and growing up in Elgin, Utah; Interactions with the local Natives; Stories about local sheep wars; Family and neighbor Christmas celebrations; Wildlife in the area; Feeding transients during the Great Depression; An Aunt who became known as the Cattle Queen of the Colorado Plateau and was excellent at cards, especially poker; Her grandmother's profits from a mining interest being stolen; Attending a year of high school in Oakland, CA; having scarlet fever; Being on the high school girls basketball team; Staying at the family ranch during the summer; Riding buckboard wagons; Her father purchasing a seven passenger Studebaker; Accompanying her father in court for jury duty; Meeting the outlaw John Griffith (Blue John); Riding as a cowhand as a teenager with her father; Carding wool and making quilts; Teaching school; Marriage; Uranium mining; Children; Her younger brother, Larry, being killed in action during WWII; Two of her sons having polio; Running a café; and hard work.