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Title Walter Morgan Donaldson, Standardville, Utah, Carbon County oral history project, No. 3, July 18, 1993
Creator Donaldson, Walter Morgan, 1920-2004
Contributor Tomsic, Madge; University of Utah. American West Center
Publisher Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
Date 1993-07-18
Date Digital 2015-12-28
Spatial Coverage Scofield, Carbon County, Utah, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/5546536 ; Winter Quarters (Historical), Carbon County, Utah, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/5549942 ; Castle Gate (Historical), Carbon County, Utah, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/5536515 ; Consumers, Carbon County, Utah, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/5537244
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Subject Donaldson, Walter Morgan, 1920-2004--Interviews; Castle Gate No. 3 Mine (Utah); Coal mines and mining--Utah; Coal mine accidents--Utah; Mine explosions; United Mine Workers of America; Miners--Labor unions
Description The interview with Walter Morgan Donaldson covers the subjects of the Castle Gate Explosion, mining strikes, Scofield Dam, Winter Quarters, the water system at mining camps, lack of baseball games, Consumers, boarding houses, attending school, his father's injury, Standardville, labor troubles, Japanese miners, playing in bands in the mining camps, working conditions, and mine closures. The Carbon County oral history project (1972-1993) consists of oral histories from residents of Carbon County, Utah. While the main emphasis is on living in coal mine country, the interviews are verbal snapshots of rural Utah life from the earliest settlers to as recently as 1993.
Collection Number and Name Accn1479, Carbon County oral history project, 1972-1993
Type Text
Format application/pdf
Language eng
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Relation http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv38397
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/s68w5gq2
Topic Miners--Labor unions; Coal mines and mining; Coal mine accidents; Mine explosions; United Mine Workers of America; Utah--Castle Gate No. 3 Mine
Genre oral histories (literary works)
Setname uum_ccoh
ID 785389
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s68w5gq2

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Title Page 14
Format application/pdf
Setname uum_ccoh
ID 785354
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s68w5gq2/785354
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