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HISTORIC SITE FORM (10-91) UTAH STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICE 1. IDENTIFICATION Name of Property: Curtis-Shepherd Cabin Address: Lot 30, Christmas Meadows Twnshp: 1 N Range: 10 E Section: 15 City, County: Summit County Lat/Long (degr. dec.): 40.82563 N -110.806389 W Current Owner Name: Jeffrey D. Shepherd, Trustee USGS Map Name & Date: Summit County, UT 7.5 Minute Current Owner Address: 7605 E 875 N, Huntsville, UT 84317 Tax Number: Account Number 0159743 Parcel Number SS-2303-IMP Legal Description (include acreage): Improvement Forest Service Lot 30 Sec 23T1NR10E SLBM M29-386 M75-305 608295 1695-907-909 Jeffrey D Shepherd as Trustee of the Shepherd Family Cabin Trust (0.4 acres). 2. STATUS/USE Property Category X building(s) structure site object Evaluation X eligible/contributing ineligible/non-contributing out-of-period Use Original Use: Recreation & Culture Current Use: Recreation & Culture 3. DOCUMENTATION Photos: Dates X digital: October 2025 prints: X historic: Various Drawings and Plans measured floor plans X site aerial/sketch map Historic American Bldg. Survey original plans available at: X other: Forest Service Records Research Sources (check all sources consulted, whether useful or not) abstract of title city/county histories tax card & photo X personal interviews building permit USHS History Research Center sewer permit USHS Preservation Files Sanborn Maps USHS Architects File obituary index X LDS Family History Library city directories/gazetteers local library: census records X university library(ies): Univ. of Utah biographical encyclopedias X newspapers Bibliographical References Alexander, Thomas G. and Rick J. Fish “the Forest Service in Utah.” https://www.uen.org/utah_history_encyclopedia/f/FOREST_SERVICE.shtml. Arrington, Leonard J. “Colonization of Utah,” https://historytogo.utah.gov/colonization-utah/. Clark, Loyal et al., “History of the Uinta National Forest: A Century of Stewardship,” ed. Shaun R. Nelson. U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1997. “Dixie Poet Society hosts workshop,” The Daily Spectrum, 4/21/1996, 31. Free, Cathy, “Will Santa Claus Forget Christmas Meadows?,” The Salt Lake Tribune, 12/24/1984, 26. Grosvenor, John R. A History of the Architecture of the USDA Forest Service. United States Department of Agriculture. Forest Service. July 1999. https://foresthistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/History-of-Architecture-in-USFS.pdf Judd, Louise. “Forest Service Can Make it a Reality: Dreams of Cool Cabin Retreats Glisten in Eyes of Warm Utahns,” Deseret News, June 24, 1953, p. 8. 1 “Long Contract for Timber is Favored,” The Salt Lake Tribune, November 10, 1912. “Loop Road to Paradise Gets Steadily Better,” The Ogden Standard-Examiner, 2/26/1956, 58. “Murray Film Studio Ends Project At Smelter Site,” Murray Eagle, 7/26/1956, 1. Obituary for Edwin Bloomer, Lindquist Funeral Home, 8/4/2013. Obituary for George Curtis, Deseret News, 7/24/2005. Obituary for Russell Shepherd. Private collection of Jeffrey D. Shepherd. Parkinson, Patrick, “Cabins coveted in Uinta Mountains,” Park Record, 11/15/2013. “Phone Firm Will Extend To Utah,” Deseret News, 12/30/1964, 12. Rowley, William D. U.S. Forest Service Grazing and Rangelands. Texas A&M University Press, 1985. Russell D. Shepherd, FamilySearch, https://www.familysearch.org/en/tree/person/details/KWCL-VF7. Sowards, Adam. Making America’s Public Lands: The Contested History of Conservation on Federal Lands. London, UK: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2022. “S. Ogden Scout Gets Top Award,” The Ogden Standard-Examiner, 12/14/1969, 32. “The Built Environment Image Guide: For the National Forests and Grasslands.” POST-WORLD War II and Operation Outdoors, September 2001. https://www.fs.usda.gov/recreation/programs/beig/beig2e.htm. “Troop 88 Spends Week in Christmas Meadow,” The North Ogden News, 9/1/1955, 2. United States Department of Agriculture-Forest Service. Operation Outdoors, Part 1. U.S. Government Printing Office, 1957. Researcher/Organization: _Mason Lytle & Kirk Huffaker/Kirk Huffaker Preservation Strategies__ Date:__1/2/2026_ 2 4. ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION Building Style/Type: Rustic/Craftsman Foundation Material: Concrete No. Stories: 2 Wall Material(s): Wood/Log Additions: none X minor major (describe below) Alterations: none major (describe below) minor Number of associated outbuildings and/or structures . . . Briefly describe the principal building, additions or alterations and their dates, and associated outbuildings and structures. Use continuation sheets as necessary. The Christmas Meadows Cabin #30 is a two-story recreation residence built on Lot #30 in the Christmas Meadows Summer Home Area of the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest in 1960. The cabin has a rectangular footprint and is 839 total square feet on the interior. A small bathroom addition was added to the south façade, adding 49 square feet. The entire cabin sits on a foundation of cement block pillars (Photo 31). The primary façade (north) is opposite the main thoroughfare, oriented instead toward the meadow, and is asymmetrical. The façade is adorned with a screened porch that covers the entire primary entrance. The base of the cabin is lined with board-and-batten siding that extends to the base of the porch doorway. Above the board-and-batten, the siding transitions to log siding, which adorns the entirety of the cabin above the base. Inside the screened porch, and on either side of the doorway, are two single-pane windows divided into nine sections with aluminum muntins. Above the porch, along the moderately pitched side gabled roof, are three small dormers with horizontal sliding windows. The cabin’s east façade is the most accessible façade from the driveway. A small wood stairway leads to a single wood door. Below the doorway and wood stairs, the original stone stairs can still be seen (Photo 4). Immediately to the left of the door is a small vertical sliding window with aluminum jambs and wood casing. Above the door, and set at the apex of the gabled roof, is a horizontal sliding window with aluminum jambs. The west façade mirrors the east with the exceptions of the doorway, stairs, and vertical sliding window. The most visible façade from the roadway is the south. The building had a rectangular footprint until 1991 when the small bathroom of 49 square feet was added. The addition connects as a wing, and the roof attaches to the main house at a hip. The small wing sticks out approximately five feet to the south and has a small horizontal sliding window. To the left of the bathroom addition are two horizontal, single-paned windows that retain the original aluminum casing. Visible eaves can be seen on both the south and north facades above the gable ends. Aside from the small bathroom addition from 1991, the cabin retains its original integrity. Two outbuildings were constructed at unknown times: an outhouse to the northwest of the cabin; and a lookout point built into trees to the northeast of the cabin. The character and style of the original cabin are still visually similar to the 1960s period of significance. The interior floorplan is 1½ stories with two small bedrooms on the main floor, and an open loft area that has been separated by partition walls to create three rooms. Initially, there was no indoor bathroom, and the outhouse was used. In 1991, a small room with a sink was expanded on the main floor to make a full bath 3 with a toilet and shower, and a septic tank was placed to the east of the cabin. Interior walls throughout are finished with rustic wood planking that is stained. Two large windows are set behind the covered porch on either side of the doorway. They are large single-pane windows divided by aluminum muntins that appear to be original to the cabin. 5. HISTORY Architect/Builder: Unknown Date of Construction: 1960 Historic Themes: Mark themes related to this property with "S" or "C" (S = significant, C = contributing). (see instructions for details) Agriculture Economics Industry Politics/ C Architecture Education Invention Government Archeology Engineering Landscape Religion Art S Entertainment/ Architecture Science Commerce Recreation Law C Social History Communications Ethnic Heritage Literature Transportation Community Planning Exploration/ Maritime History Other & Development Settlement Military Conservation Health/Medicine Performing Arts In 1891, the U.S. Congress passed the General Land Law Revision Act (Act), which authorized the President of the United States to set aside land for forest reserves from the public domain. The Act set the stage for the early establishment of the Forest Service, and for the regulation of use and charging of fees for specific uses (the “principles of federal ownership”). The Uinta Forest Reserve was established by 1897, with 10 more following over the next 13 years. By 1910 the Forest Service pushed for better scientific knowledge to improve debilitated rangeland in the West.1 Some of the earliest Forest Service stations would be established in Utah, including the Uinta Forest Range, to better understand plant ecology and proper forest management. Dynamic Ecology, a theory developed in 1905 by E.F. Clements, suggested that plants pass through a development cycle that coincides with susceptibility to overgrazing.2 This epiphany would become pivotal in later grazing studies, giving Clements the title “father of range science.”3 The first field station created to study this was in the Manti National Forest in Utah. With this field station, scientists could monitor and study the amount of grazing feasible in a particular area and the “availability of forage provided by a successional stage of vegetation.”4 The creation of the Utah Field Experiment Station ushered in some of the most intensive range studies in Utah.5 Subsequently, Utah became an area of centralized focus on the well-being of agriculture. Utah’s forests had been exceptionally overtaxed since the settlement of the first Mormon settlers in the Salt Lake Valley in 1847. By commandment of the church’s leaders, Mormon pioneers began to settle outside of 1 Rowley, US Forest Service Grazing and Rangeland, 101-103. His theory suggested that plant's growth cycles are most vulnerable in their earliest germination stages, but upon maturation, they become much more resistant to grazing pressures. 3 Rowley, US Forest Service Grazing and Rangeland, 101-103. 4 Rowley, US Forest Service Grazing and Rangelands: A History, 101-103. 5 “Long Contract for Timber is Favored,” The Salt Lake Tribune, November 10, 1912. 2 4 Salt Lake.6 Within 10 years, approximately 90 areas had been settled, many of which were located on future lands set aside for the Forest Service.7 Unregulated grazing of livestock on the landscape left settlers vulnerable to flooding, as well as damage to rangeland that prohibited future growth. In addition to livestock grazing, railroads in American Fork and Spanish Fork canyons were developed in the 1870s and gave easy access to the Wasatch Back, enabling mining ventures throughout the Uintas and settlement of their foothills and valleys. By 1890, deforestation near populated areas had reached a critical level.8 By the time the Uinta National Forest was established in 1897, almost all its accessible timber had been removed.9 Beginning in the mid-1950s, the National Park Service, as well as the Forest Service, began to respond to an influx of visitors to sites and recreational areas. In addition to increased visitation, raw materials were needed to accommodate post-war growth nationally. In response to rapid growth, the National Park Service initiated “Mission 66,” a program aimed at updating facilities managed by the National Park Service. The Forest Service began a parallel program called Operation Outdoors in 1957.10 Operation Outdoors came about due to growing, often intense, debates over the use of wilderness areas in the early 1950s. Propositions by the Forest Service to open formerly protected areas for timber production in exchange for “high elevation wilderness areas” were met with public opposition.11 Public sentiment during the 1950s aligned with more leisure and access to recreational activities. In response to public outcry for more available facilities, the Forest Service pushed a “comprehensive five-year action program for the proper development of recreation facilities on the national forests.”12 This plan aimed to blend the Forest Service’s idea for both recreation and natural resource extraction. During the transitional period from resource extraction to public leisure use, the development of summer areas began to be established in Utah’s National Forests. Some of the earliest announcements for the development of the Christmas Meadows Summer Home Area came in 1953, even prior to adoption of Operation Outdoors in 1957.13 According to 2013 statistics, 14,285 residences exist within 53 national forests.14 As the story goes, the area was named for a California prospector named Christmas who journeyed into the Uintas in search of gold. He mined for gold in the area for seven years before he left.15 But it’s the scenic beauty of Christmas Meadows that was significant and memorable to all who experienced it. The Walt Disney 6 While The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the proper and preferred name, the LDS Church’s style guide accepts historical use of “Mormon Pioneers” in contexts such as this, and abbreviation simply as “the Church” or “LDS Church.” For brevity in this document, both will be used, as well as simply “Pioneers,” (capitalized throughout as a proper noun), “Mormons,” and sometimes “members.” No disrespect is meant to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in abbreviating, to any subsequent church in Salt Lake City, nor to other groups of pioneers who settled here or in other regions. This is simply a convenience where the meaning is not likely to be confused here. 7 Leonard J. Arrington, “Colonization of Utah,” https://historytogo.utah.gov/colonization-utah/. 8 Alexander and Fish, “The Forest Service in Utah,” 28, https://www.uen.org/utah_history_encyclopedia/f/FOREST_SERVICE.shtml. 9 Loyal Clark, et al., “History of the Uinta National Forest: A Century of Stewardship,” ed. Shaun R. Nelson (U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1997), 28. 10 https://www.fs.usda.gov/recreation/programs/beig/beig2e.htm 11 Adam Sowards, Making America’s Public Land’s: The Contested History of Conservation on Federal Lands, 128. 12 Operation Outdoors, Pt. 1, Preface. 13 Louise Judd, “Forest Service Can Make it a Reality: Dreams of Cool Cabin Retreats Glisten in Eyes of Warm Utahns,” Deseret News, 6/24/1953, 8. 14 Patrick Parkinson, “Cabins coveted in Uinta Mountains,” Park Record, 11/15/2013. 15 Cathy Free, “Will Santa Claus Forget Christmas Meadows?,” The Salt Lake Tribune, 12/24/1984, 26. 5 Company used the site as one of its home bases for filming “The Pine Squirrel” in 1956.16 Elaine Ipson was awarded Pearle M. Olsen Book Publication Award for “Where Ghosts are Garrisoned” in 1996 for her poetry based on “her appreciation for the unsurpassed beauty of Christmas Meadows.”17 Between 1949 and 1956, the entire length of the Mirror Lake Highway (State Road 150) was improved and paved at a cost of $2.8 million to the Utah Bureau of Public Roads.18 With the formation of the cabin owners association in 1958, it’s likely the area was platted ca. 1958. The earliest cabin that has been identified in Christmas Meadows was constructed in 1950; however, the vast majority of the cabins were constructed between 1957 and 1964. A few of the original cabins appear to have been demolished and replaced with modern structures, while others have been remodeled and expanded in the modern era. The period of significance for the Curtis-Shepherd Cabin is 1960-1976. The original cabin on Lot 30 was built in approximately 1960 by George W. Curtis, a Salt Lake City accountant, on a Forest Service-permitted lot 30 in the Christmas Meadows Summer Home Area. The Curtis family included his wife Lois and five children with a permanent residence in Cottonwood Heights. Curtis attended the University of Utah, majored in accounting, and served in World War II.19 Cabins at Christmas Meadows received telephone service in 1965 through a connection by Union Telephone Co.20 In 1969, the culinary water system was improved by Craig Freeman, son of cabin owners, as his Eagle Scout service project.21 It was sold by Curtis in approximately 1970 to Thomas and Vera Bloomer, who owned it until 1975. Thomas Edwin Bloomer served in World War II in the Air Force. Vera Bloomer also served in World War II in the Women’s Auxiliary Corps, which is how they met. They moved to Utah in 1952 when Vera was transferred to Hill Air Force Base and purchased a manufactured house in Sunrise Park in Sunset. They later lived in Roy, South Ogden, and Yuma, AZ. Thomas was a Scottish Rite Mason and member of the Elks and Eagles organizations.22 In 1975, Russ and Carol Shepherd purchased it for $14,000. Russell Dean Shepherd majored in art and minored in music at Utah State University and served in the Korean War. The Shepherd family included wife Carol and five children with a permanent residence in South Ogden. Russell was an accomplished Artisan in all mediums. He won several awards for his artwork which he displayed in art shows and loved playing trumpet in a jazz band. Russell was an active member of the LDS Church, serving in five Bishoprics.23 Russell Shepherd wrote about his love for the cabin and location in his ca. 2005 memoir: Now I would like to tell you about my ultimate and very favorite hut. It is not on wheels. It is an 16 “Murray Film Studio Ends Project At Smelter Site,” Murray Eagle, 7/26/1956, 1. Disney also filmed there in 1954 and 1955 according to “Troop 88 Spends Week in Christmas Meadow,” The North Ogden News, 9/1/1955, 2. 17 “Dixie Poet Society hosts workshop,” The Daily Spectrum, 4/21/1996, 31. The Ipsons also owned a cabin in the Christmas Meadows summer home area in 1996. 18 “Loop Road to Paradise Gets Steadily Better,” The Ogden Standard-Examiner, 2/26/1956, 58. 19 Obituary for George Curtis, Deseret News, 7/24/2005. 20 “Phone Firm Will Extend To Utah,” Deseret News, 12/30/1964, 12. 21 “S. Ogden Scout Gets Top Award,” The Ogden Standard-Examiner, 12/14/1969, 32. 22 Obituary for Edwin Bloomer, Lindquist Funeral Home, 8/4/2013. 23 Obituary for Russell Shepherd. Private collection of Jeffrey D. Shepherd. 6 interesting story. Remember I told you when I lived in Bear Lake that my favorite hut was in a tree. Well, I have changed my mind. My favorite hut is in the trees. This is the story. In the summer of 1975 our son, Jeff, was on a church outing. They had gone to one of the neighbor’s cabins in Christmas Meadows on a fishing trip. While there he learned that a cabin in the area was for sale, which was a rarity. When the forest service opened the area, they sold forty lots and closed it again. There are no plans in the future to ever open the area again. Jeff was aware that we were halfway looking for a piece of recreational property, but we were concentrating more in the Bear Lake or Ogden Canyon area. Because of our camping trips up to the Meadows, he was well aware of how much we enjoyed the area. So, he had the foresight to go and talk to the owner and put our name on the list. Whenever anything comes for sale up there the list is immediately a page long. He got there rather early, but we were still fourth or fifth down so when he came home and told us what had happened we did not hold much hope. We more or less dismissed it as a good try. We had driven up and taken a look at it and became very excited about it not only as a special retreat, but it looked like a profitable investment. A couple of weeks or so later we received a call from Mr. Bloomer, the owner, inquiring as to whether or not we were still interested in purchasing it. It seemed that none of the other interested parties could come up with the financing. We soon found out why. None of the financial institutions around were very anxious to loan money on recreational property. We had shopped around and were also becoming somewhat discouraged when we stopped into Bank One. They were just getting started in Ogden and were anxious to acquire new customers. Also, it just happened that one of their top executives was and is Bruce Shepherd, a relative of mine. So they agreed to make us the loan if we would open an account with them. So we became owners of our favorite “club house” to date! It is by far the wisest investment we have made since we were married. We have spent many happy hours up there as a family and it has helped very much in keeping us close. We have done a lot of hiking and fishing together as well as working together on upgrading the house and area. The cabin, or I suppose I should say summer home, is approximately eight hundred square feet on the main floor. It is constructed of log siding on the outside and finished in knotty pine throughout the interior. It has a kitchenette and dining area, a front room, two bedrooms and a bathroom on the main floor. It has three attic type sleeping rooms upstairs. Then there is a large screened porch across the front, which has the best view in the area of the meadows with the river meandering through it. It really is our paradise! There is nothing to compare with the beauty of the Uinta Mountains! The kids especially have done a lot of hiking up to the myriad of lakes there are in the high country.24 The bathroom addition was constructed in 1991, bringing full indoor plumbing to the house for the first time. In 2005, the cabin was transferred to the children of Russ and Carol Shepherd pursuant to a family trust. In early 2025, plans were proposed to demolish the original cabin and replace it with a larger, modern, fourseason cabin in a similar rustic style. 24 Russell D. Shepherd, FamilySearch, https://www.familysearch.org/en/tree/person/details/KWCL-VF7. 7 Maps 8 9 10 11 12 13 Photos Photograph 1. Cabin exterior, north (main) façade. Camera facing south. October 2025. Photograph 2. Cabin exterior, east and north (main) facades. Camera facing northwest. October 2025. 14 Photograph 3. Cabin exterior, east façade. Camera facing west. October 2025. Photograph 4. Detail of original stone stairs under the current wood stairs located on the east façade. Camera facing west. October 2025. 15 Photograph 5. Cabin exterior, south façade. Camera facing north. October 2025. Photograph 6. Cabin exterior, west façade. Camera facing east. October 2025. 16 Photograph 7. Cabin exterior, north (main) and west facades. Camera facing southeast. October 2025. Photograph 8. Detail view of the screened porch on the north (main) façade. Camera facing west. October 2025. 17 Photograph 9. Interior, screened porch. Camera facing west. October 2025. Photograph 10. Interior, screened porch. Camera facing east. October 2025. 18 Photograph 11. Interior, screened porch. Camera facing northwest. October 2025. Photograph 12. Detail of original window in screened porch. Camera facing south. October 2025. 19 Photograph 13. Interior, ground floor, living room. Camera facing west. October 2025. Photograph 14. Interior, ground floor, living room. Camera facing north. October 2025. 20 Photograph 15. Interior, ground floor, bedroom one. Camera facing southwest. October 2025. Photograph 16. Interior, ground floor, bedroom two. Camera facing south. October 2025. 21 Photograph 17. Interior, ground floor, dining room. Camera facing north. October 2025. Photograph 18. Interior, ground floor, dining room. Camera facing east. October 2025. 22 Photograph 19. Interior, ground floor, kitchen and stairs. Camera facing southwest. October 2025. Photograph 20. Interior, ground floor, kitchen. Camera facing northeast. October 2025. 23 Photograph 21. Interior, ground floor, bathroom. Camera facing southeast. October 2025. 24 Photograph 22. Interior, ground floor, bathroom. Camera facing northeast. October 2025. 25 Photograph 23. Interior, ground floor, bathroom. Camera facing south. October 2025. 26 Photograph 24. Interior, ground floor, kitchen and stairs. Camera facing north. October 2025. Photograph 25. Interior, loft. Camera facing south. October 2025. 27 Photograph 26. Interior, loft. Camera facing east. October 2025. Photograph 27. Interior, loft. Camera facing west. October 2025. 28 Photograph 28. Interior, loft. Camera facing southeast. October 2025. Photograph 28. Interior, loft. Camera facing east. October 2025. 29 Photograph 29. Interior, loft. Camera facing north. October 2025. Photograph 30. Interior, loft. Camera facing north. October 2025. 30 Photograph 31. Detail of foundation piers. Camera facing south. October 2025. Photograph 32. Landscape view with fire ring at right and cabin on left. Camera facing west. October 2025. 31 Photograph 33. Landscape view to the southeast with the outhouse on the left and wood pile to the right of center. October 2025. Photograph 34. Outbuildings, outhouse, main façade. Camera facing south. October 2025. 32 Photograph 35. Outbuildings, outhouse, interior. Camera facing south. October 2025. 33 Photograph 36. Outbuildings, moose lookout. Camera facing northeast. October 2025. 34 Photograph 37. Landscape, fire ring area. Camera facing east. October 2025. Photograph 38. Landscape, view toward Christmas Meadows from moose lookout. Camera facing north. October 2025. 35 Photograph 39. Landscape, view toward Christmas Meadows from moose lookout. Camera facing north. October 2025. 36 Figures Figure 1. Drawing of lot divisions for the Christmas Meadows Summer Home Area. Source: USDA Forest Service, Uinta-Wasatch-Cache Archives. 37 Figure 2. Photos from a survey of Christmas Meadows in the 1970s. Source: Marriott Library, University of Utah. https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6bh2fdw. 38 Figure 3. Photos from a survey of Christmas Meadows in the 1970s. Source: Marriott Library, University of Utah. https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6bh2fdw. 39 Figure 4. Concept plans for the bathroom addition. Source: USDA Forest Service, Uinta-WasatchCache Archives. 40 Figure 5. Image of the bathroom area prior to the addition in 1989. Source: USDA Forest Service, Uinta-Wasatch-Cache Archives. 41 Figure 6. Deseret News, 6/24/1953, p. 8 42 Figure 7. The Salt Lake Tribune, 6/14/1958, p. 25. 43 Figure 8. Newspaper article map showing the improvements being made to the main access road to Christmas Meadows. Source: The Ogden Standard-Examiner, 2/26/1956, p. 58. 44 Figure 9. Christmas Meadows in winter, ca. 1970. Source: Marriott Library, University of Utah. https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6nn8pws. Figure 10. Christmas Meadows excursion in winter 1967. Source: Marriott Library, University of Utah. https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6k4b5zz. 45 Figure 11. Historic aerial photo, 1978. Source: historicaerials.com. 46 Figure 12. Russell D. Shepherd at work as a visual artist; undated. FamilySearch. https://www.familysearch.org/en/tree/person/memories/KWCL-VF7. 47 Figure 13. Russell D. Shepherd with his jazz trumpet; undated. FamilySearch. https://www.familysearch.org/en/tree/person/memories/KWCL-VF7. 48 TITLE SEARCH FORM [Obtain information from title abstract books at County Recorder’s Office] Address: City: Current Owner: Shepherd Family Cabin Trust dated April 15, 2005 Address: TRANSACTION DATES GRANTOR (SELLER) Tax Number: 0159743 Legal Description (include acreage): Lot #30 of the Christmas Meadows Summer Home area of the Wasatch National Forest GRANTEE (BUYER) TYPE OF DOLLAR TRANSACTION AMOUNT Built 1960 George Curtis Approx. 1970 George Curtis Thomas and Vera Bloomer Unknown Unknown December 3, 1975 Thomas and Vera Bloomer Russell D and Carol H Shepherd Cash/Bank loan $14,000 April 15, 2005 Russell D and Carol H Shepherd Shepherd Family Cabin Trust Transfer of ownership Researcher: Date: COMMENTS Russ and Carol transferred ownership to trust for children