| Title |
Alice Hall Presentation |
| Creator |
Hall, Alice |
| Publisher |
Utah Historical Society |
| Date |
1981-11-11 |
| Access Rights |
Utah Historical Society |
| Date Digital |
2024-05-02 |
| Spatial Coverage |
City of Vernal, Uintah, Utah, United States https://www.geonames.org/7174628/city-of-vernal.html |
| Subject |
Arts; Business transactions; Community action; Crop losses; Death; Diaries; Entertainment events; Flour mills; Freight and freightage; Libraries; Mail; Personal narratives; Pioneers; Poetry; Politics; Snow; Theater; Wildlife; Uintah County (Utah ); Vernal (Utah) |
| Description |
Presentation about the history of Vernal by Alice Hall. Topics include: Poetry; William B. Reynolds's old flour mill and its significance in local business affairs, politics; and entertainment; The difficulties of pioneering; Journaling; What the hard winter of 1879 was like and its impact on Vernal as well as North America; Death of all buffalo on the plains; Loss of large percentages of elk, deer, antelope, and cattle; Loss of crops to grasshoppers and excessive snowfall; How the community worked together to survive the devastation; Theater and Arts; The library; Freight wagons; and what the mail service in Vernal was like. |
| Collection Number and Name |
Mss B 1637 Uintah County (Utah) Oral Histories Collection, 1974-2002 |
| Type |
Text |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
5 leaves |
| Language |
eng |
| Rights |
 |
| Source |
Mss B 1637 Uintah County (Utah) Oral Histories Collection, 1974-2002 |
| Scanning Technician |
Michelle Gollehon |
| Metadata Cataloger |
Amy Green Larsen |
| ARK |
ark:/87278/s6x21ym2 |
| Setname |
dha_uhsoh |
| ID |
2535901 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6x21ym2 |
