| Title |
Pioneer personal history, William Cooley |
| Collection |
MSS B 289 The Works Progress Administration (Utah Section) Biographical Sketches, ca. 1930-1941 |
| Source Container |
Box 3, Folder 2 |
| Date |
1937-03-25 |
| Subject |
Cooley, William, 1857-1938; Frontier and pioneer life--Utah--Grand County; Frontier and pioneer life--Texas; Frontier and pioneer life--Wyoming; Frontier and pioneer life--Kansas; Oral history; Pioneers--West (U.S.); Oral history; Agriculture--Utah; Buffalo hunting; Indians of North America--Texas--History |
| Spatial Coverage |
Grand County, Utah, United States; Kansas, United States; Wyoming, United States; Texas, United States |
| Creator |
Cooley, William, 1857-1938 |
| Description |
Typescript of answers by William Cooley for a questionnaire filled out for Utah Works Progress Administration's "Pioneer personal history" survey. He was born in Iowa in 1857, and came to Utah in 1887, Working mines at Stockton, Park City, and Grand County. Later he lived at Moab. In his younger days he traveled through much of the West, and mentions incidents in Texas, Kansas and Wyoming, as well as a robbery by Butch Cassidy in Castle Gate, Utah. Typed by Winford Bunce in 1937 |
| 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 |
Bunce, Winford; 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/s6pv8qm4 |
| Setname |
dha_wpabs |
| ID |
701673 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6pv8qm4 |
