| Title |
Pearl Baker, Green River, Utah: Utah Uranium Oral History Project |
| Alternative Title |
Pearl Baker, Utah Uranium Oral History Project |
| Creator |
Baker, Pearl, 1907-1992 |
| Contributor |
McFarlane, John |
| Date |
1971-07-09 |
| Date Digital |
2016-05-04 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
Ferron, Emery County, Utah, United States |
| Subject |
Baker, Pearl, 1907-1992--Interviews |
| Description |
Transcript (53 pages) of an interview by John McFarlane with Pearl Baker, on July 9, 1971. From tape number UR-155 in the Utah Uranium Oral History Project |
| Abstract |
John McFarlane interviewed Pearl Baker in Green River, Utah. Subjects: horses, springs, the Chaplin family, damage caused by Lake Powell, teaching school in White Canyon, the mill and trading post, parties and diversions, school children, housing, Hanksville, White Canyon characters, Craig Carpenter, drifters, the Pick Mine (53 pages). |
| Type |
Text |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
53 pages |
| Language |
eng |
| Rights |
 |
| Rights Holder |
For further information please contact Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah at spcreference@lists.utah.edu or (801)581-8863 or 295 South 1500 East, 4th Floor, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112 |
| Scanning Technician |
Mazi Rakhsha |
| Conversion Specifications |
Original scanned with Kirtas 2400 and saved as 400 ppi uncompressed TIFF. PDF generated by Adobe Acrobat Pro X for CONTENTdm display |
| ARK |
ark:/87278/s69s3z2v |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Finding Aid |
http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv03439/ |
| Setname |
uum_uoh |
| ID |
1057164 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s69s3z2v |
| Title |
Page 42 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_uoh |
| ID |
1057151 |
| OCR Text |
Show PEARL BAKER #1 dredging machinery and it was hauled from Green River over there. Mrs. Robinsons' father, Charlie Gibbons had the contract of hauling that down where it was left, where it's covered by the water of the lake. JM: Now can we get a little bit, bring out things maybe up to a little bit more in the later years of your life. When did you start to write? PB: Oh, I've always written. This winter my mother said, "I'm surprised she wrote a book." I said, "No, Momma, you ' re not either surprised I wrote a book. You ' re surprised I sold a book, and so am I." I've always written. I used to correspond for the newspapers here and I did that in kind of a funny way. George Franze bought a little bunch of cows out here with the Chaplins, according to the paper, because his neighbors were the correspondents. George Rams was the coming cattleman of the country, and I said that Johnny Come Lately, "How come?" so the neighbors got so they didn't want to correspond anymore. I said, "Well, it's just time we got a little bit of this cowboy notoriety." So I wrote down to Bish Taylor and asked, "Could I correspond for the paper?" [They were] delighted to have me, and I want you to know George Ram suffered a terrible eclipse. (laughing) I shot him out of the saddle but good. (laughing) So I 41 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s69s3z2v/1057151 |
