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Show THE FOLLOWING IS AN INTERVIEW WITH W. H. BOWMAN, CONDUCTED BY STEVEN GUTTMAN AT MOAB, UTAH ON AUGUST 12, 1970. SG: As an introduction to the tape can you give a little background on yourself, when you first came to Moab, the other work you've done besides police work. WB: I first came to Moab here in 1932. Been a lot of changes here since then. Of course, come here, all there was here is the marshall, the city marshall, the sheriff, Sheriff Skewes. He was the sheriff of Moab at that time. The town here was about nine-hundred population. Since then built up their department. I have one full-time deputy and a part-time deputy over in Green River. And there's three highway patrolmen that are stationed here. And I believe the city police have five on their payroll, which makes a total of about ten or eleven that are full-time officers here. S G : When you c am e to Moab , d id you come to work for the police force or--? WB: Oh, when I first come to Moab, I come out here, I used to work for all these cattle outfits around here. I rode for cattle and worked on ranches, and this, that, and the other. And in 1948 I did run for sheriff here. I and Johnny Skewes, and we tied for. If I remember right at that time there was 832 votes passed, and we tied. We put our names in some envelopes in the box and then the first taxpayer that |
