| 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 45 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_uoh |
| ID |
1057154 |
| OCR Text |
Show PEARL BAKER #1 loose. It looked for a while like the man was just going to have to leave his pants and walk off, but somebody came along and released him. JM: Can you remember any more stories about the mining of some of the miners, maybe some of the ways that a discovery was made of a mine or some story like this? PB: Not offhand, I can't remember. I remember that one of the old copper mines that they worked and they hauled ore out of was the old Dolly Varden Mine, Dolly Varden, she was a singer in the early, early days, and you can see Copper Point from Hite. There were things that I noticed from down there that have puzzled me. Trachyte [Creek] ran down through the bar at Hite you know, and on the hills below Trachyte all of the sego lilies were yellow. On the hills above Trachyte all of the sego lilies were white. I never saw white sego lilies below Trachyte and I never saw a yellow one above, now why? How could you tell? One time in the store--Myron ran the trading and the post office too, you know and somebody asked me what my maiden name was. I said it was Bittlecomb and Myron says, "I've got a letter for you in there." I said, "You have?" and he said, "Yes, it came to a Bi ttlecomb, and I didn't know any Bi ttlecombs." He said, "I've just been hanging onto it thinking maybe 44 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s69s3z2v/1057154 |
