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Interesting personalities: John W. Weber, O. P. Wiggins

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Title Interesting personalities: John W. Weber, O. P. Wiggins
Collection MSS B 289 The Works Progress Administration (Utah Section) Biographical Sketches, ca. 1930-1941
Date 1934; 1935; 1936; 1937; 1938; 1939; 1940; 1941; 1942
Subject Weber, John Henry, 1779-1859; Fur traders--Biography; Wiggins, Oliver Perry, 1823?-1913; Trappers--Utah--Biography; Frontier and pioneer life--West (U.S.)
Spatial Coverage Utah, United States
Creator Hughey, John C., 1825-1905
Description Typescript copy of newspaper accounts on early fur trappers who visited Utah. One is a Salt Lake Tribune article from the issue of July 4, 1897, wherein John C. Hughey of Bellevue, Iowa, relates having met John Henry Weber, a fur trader who visited the Great Salt Lake in 1823. The other is from the Denver News 1897, about Oliver P. Wiggins, who served as a guide to Mormons headed for Utah and for gold seekers bound for California
Rights Management Online access. Reproduction and use by permission from Utah State History.
Publisher Published by Utah State History; digitized and hosted by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
Type Text
Format application/pdf
Conversion Specifications Original scanned on Epson Expression 10000 XL and saved as 400 ppi TIFF. Display image generated in Adobe Acrobat Pro X as a pdf.
Date Digital 2016-04-19
Contributor United States. Works Progress Administration. Utah Section
Language eng
Is Part of http://heritage.utah.gov/apps/history/findaids/B00289/B0289.xml
Scanning Technician Janelle Michaelis; Cedar Gonzales; Alexis Hansen
ARK ark:/87278/s60s20x9
Setname dha_wpabs
ID 699547
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s60s20x9
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