Mr. Darrell Kunzler talks about his life-long career in the cattle industry as well as his roles in various organizations and associations. He discusses the year-long ranching cycle, and how he has come to grow his ranch (and is now handing it down...
Kelly and Heather Warr discuss their ranching life, as well as their supplemental business endeavors. Heather talks about her e-commerce business ventures, as well as being a rural ranching wife. Interviewed by Elaine Thatcher and Lisa Duskin-Goede...
Warr, Kelly--Interviews; Warr, Heather--Interviews; Ranching; Ranchers; Electronic commerce; Ranch spouses--Supplementary employment; Livestock brands; Animal marking; Cattle ranching; Pasture, Right of; Country life; Reality television programs;...
Mr. Wallace Schulthess discusses how his family came to be in the Woodruff area. He talks a lot about his father’s childhood and growing up as an orphan, and how he turned hard work into what their family now has. Interviewed by Bob Parson on...
Schulthess, Wallace--Interviews; Orphans; Cattle ranching; Ranchings; Ranchers; Range management; Ranch Managers; Beef cattle--Cow-calf system; Pasture, Right of; Pasture animals; Pastures—Irrigation; Hay--Harvesting--Equipment and supplies;...
Norman Warren gives his family history, including his family ties and working experience on the Ogilvie Ranches in Lee and Lamoille, Nevada. He talks about his career working around the world in the mining industry. Interviewed by Cliff Gardner on...
Gardner, Cliff--Interviews; Ranching, Ranchers; World War, 1939-1945--Veterans; Genealogy; Hunting; Cattle ranching; Miners; Kennecott Corporation; Mineral industries; Mine management; Mines and mineral resources;
An Early History of Cache County or History of Cache County, as printed in Logan Journal, beginning August 4, 1923, compiled by M.R. Hovey, Secretary of the Logan Chamber of Commerce. The contents of this item were first printed in the Logan...
Thatcher, Moses, 1842-1909; Preston, William Bowker, b. 1830; Maughan, Peter, 1811-1871; Martineau, James H. (James Henry), 1828-1921; Card, Charles Ora, 1839-1906; Benson, Ezra T. (Ezra Taft), 1811-1869; Mormons--Utah--Cache County--History;...
Early Recollections Of Logan by David Reese, Griffith Charles, and Morgan S. Evans. Typescript of articles published in the The Journal in Logan, Cache County, Utah, Dec. 22, 1923 (Vol. XLIV #306, p. 8) and Jan 5, 1924 (Vol. XLVII #5, p. 12).
Logan (Utah)--History; Cache Valley (Utah and Idaho)--History; Cache Valley (Utah and Idaho)--Biography; Logan (Utah)--Biography; Frontier and pioneer life--Cache Valley (Utah and Idaho); Cache Valley (Utah and Idaho)--History--19th century;
Memories of Early Days in Cache County. Personal Reminiscences Of Its First Settlers-- Forgotten Scenes And Incidents Recalled By Words Of Those Who Took Part In Them by Joel Ricks. Typescript of articles printed in The Journal from January 5 -...
Logan (Utah)--History; Cache Valley (Utah and Idaho)--History; Cache Valley (Utah and Idaho)--Biography; Logan (Utah)--Biography; Utah--History;
Some Recollections Relating To The Early Pioneer Life Of Logan City And Cache County by Joel Ricks, December 22, 1923. This is the first of a series of articles writte by Mr. Joel Ricks for publication in The Journal.
Logan (Utah)--History; Cache Valley (Utah and Idaho)--History; Cache Valley (Utah and Idaho)--Biography; Logan (Utah)--Biography;
Early Recollections of Logan given by Joel E. Ricks and printed in The Journal in Logan, Cache County, Utah on January 5, 1924 in Vol. XLVII #5 pg. 12.
Logan (Utah)--History; Cache Valley (Utah and Idaho)--History; Cache Valley (Utah and Idaho)--Biography; Logan (Utah)--Biography;
History of the settlement of Hyrum, Utah, including information dealing with Agriculture, Canals, Dairies, Cattle, and the United Order of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Hyrum (Utah)--History; United orders (Mormon Church)--Utah--Hyrum; Mormon Church--Utah--Hyrum--History--19th century; Cities and towns--Utah--Cache County--History--19th century; Mormons--Colonization--Cache Valley (Utah and Idaho);...
Cache Valley sawmills, transcript from a series of newspaper articles written by J. L. Montrose and published in the Herald Journal newspaper. Covers the history of several mills as they were bought and sold, and often, relocated, during the...
Sawmills--Cache Valley (Utah and Idaho)--History; Sawmills--Idaho-Franklin County--History; Sawmills--Utah--Cache County--History; Sawmills--Utah--Millville--History;
1859 - City of Smithfield - 1912: A Brief History of the Town from Pioneer Days until the time of 1912. Brief account of settlement of Smithfield, Cache County, Utah as well as Indian/Settler interactions
Smithfield (Utah)--History; Cache Valley (Utah and Idaho)--History;
In "Summit Creek in 1860, 1861, 1859 and 1862" Margaret Sant remembers the earliest days of the first settlement near Summit Creek (Cache County, Utah), in what is now Smithfield, Utah.
Smithfield (Utah)--History; Mormon pioneers--Utah--Smithfield--Biography; Frontier and Pioneer life--Utah--Smithfield; Summit Creek (Cache County, Utah)--History; Mormon pioneers--Utah--Summit Creek (Cache County); Frontier and pioneer...
Nicholas Welch Crookston Grazing Permits from 1914 to 1925 for grazing cattle (and a few horses) in Logan Canyon, Cache National Forest, Utah. Also includes notification of the Desert-Land Act requirements from 1905 to Nicolas W. Crookston, an...
Grazing--Cache National Forest (Utah and Idaho)--History; Grazing--Utah--Logan Canyon--History; Grazing districts--Cache National Forest (Utah and Idaho)--History; Grazing districts--Utah--Logan Canyon--History; Rangelands--Cache National Forest...
Cache Valley before the settlements : a talk given by M. R. Hovey before the Cache Valley Chapter, Utah State Historical Society, Logan, Utah, Wednesday evening, April 28, 1954. Gives a history of the fur trade in the United States in general from...
Fur trade--United States--History; Fur trade--Cache Valley (Utah and Idaho)--History; Fur traders--Cache Valley (Utah and Idaho)--History; Trappers--Cache Valley (Utah and Idaho)--History; Cache Valley (Utah and Idaho)--Discovery and exploration;...
A History of the Wasatch-Cache National Forest / submitted to the Wasatch-Cache National Forest, September 25, 1980 ; by Charles S. Peterson, Linda E. Speth, Utah State University. The history of the forest falls into two major periods. The...
Cache National Forest (Utah and Idaho); Wasatch National Forest (Utah and Wyo.); Forest reserves--Utah--HIstory; Forest reserves--United States--History;
A Survey of the Waters of the Cache National Forest, Utah by C.J.D. Brown, Temporary Biologist, April 1935.
Cache National Forest (Utah and Idaho)--United States; Logan River (Utah)--Surveys; River surveys--Utah; Blacksmith Fork (Utah)--Surveys; Little Bear River--Surveys;
Scrapbook containing newspaper clippings referring to the Cache National Forest, between 1905 and 1920. Clippings created in response to a letter requesting that : "clip and mail printed statements and editorials, favorable or unfavorable, which...
Cache National Forest (Utah and Idaho)--United States; Grazing--Utah; Sheep--Cache National Forest (Utah and Idaho); Sheep--Utah; Sheep--Idaho; Timber--Cache National Forest (Utah and Idaho); Timber--Idaho; Timber--Utah; Forest reserves--Cache...
Copies of Reports prepared by A. E. Oman on the North Creek, Big Creek, Mink Creek, and Cub Creek watersheds sent to J. F. Squires from E. A. Sterling.
Cache National Forest (Utah and Idaho)--United States;
Life History and Management of the Cache Deer Herd by Jerry William Hill. A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Wildlife Management, Utah State Agricultural College, Logan, Utah, 1952.
Deer--Utah; Wildlife management--Utah--Cache County; Range management--Utah--Cache County;
A history of grazing in Logan Canyon by Lysle R. English. Report No. 1 submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in History, Plan B, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, 1971.
History of Logan by Willard Conrad Jenson. A thesis presented to the Faculty of the University of Utah in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of M.A., 1927.
Logan Republican; Logan (Utah)--History; Cache Valley (Utah and Idaho)--History;
The introduced Fishes, Game Birds, and Game and Fur-Bearing Mammals of Utah by Boris Hewitt Popov. A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Zoology, Utah State Agricultural College, 1949.
Fishes -- Utah; Game and game-birds--Utah; Mammals--Utah; Animal introduction--Utah;
M.A. thesis by Matthew C. Godfrey submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in History, Utah State University, 1997. Typewritten, 165 single-sided pages.
Ridgway, Robert, 1850-1929 -- Correspondence; Ornithologists -- Biography; United States Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel (1867-1881); West (U.S.) -- Description and travel
The John L. Ridgway scrapbook consists of fifty-one scrapbook leaves bound in cloth-covered paper boards (15 1/4 x 11 in.). Contained in the scrapbook are drawings and proof prints by John L. Ridgway. The scrapbook leaves are foliated in pencil...
Scientific illustration; Natural history -- Pictorial works; Birds -- Pictorial works
Handwritten outgoing correspondence from Robert Ridgway to Father (David Ridgway), May 9, 1867. The letter detailed to Robert's father what kind of equipment he had been outfitted with for the U.S.G.S. expedition.
Teenagers -- Correspondence; Ridgway, Robert, 1850-1929 -- Correspondence; Ornithologists -- Correspondence; West (U.S.) -- Description and travel; Geological Survey (U.S.)
Handwritten outgoing correspondence from Robert Ridgway to Mother (Harriet Ridgway), June 24, 1867. This letter, titled Sacramento, California, Camp no. 1, U.S.G.S. described to his father the establishment of the survey party's first camp.
Teenagers -- Correspondence; Ridgway, Robert, 1850-1929 -- Correspondence; Ornithologists -- Correspondence; West (U.S.) -- Description and travel; Geological Survey (U.S.)
Handwritten outgoing correspondence from Robert Ridgway to Father (David Ridgway), September 1, 1867. This letter was sent from Camp #17, "Banks of the Humboldt River," and it described, to his father, his trip with Mr. Parker (an Indian agent) and...
Teenagers -- Correspondence; Ridgway, Robert, 1850-1929 -- Correspondence; Ornithologists -- Correspondence; West (U.S.) -- Description and travel; Geological Survey (U.S.)
Handwritten outgoing correspondence from Robert Ridgway to Sister Fannie (Ridgway), January 14, 1868. This letter was sent from "Headquarters U.S. Geological Exploration 40th Parallel, Carson City, Nevada and detailed photographs that he had sent...
Teenagers -- Correspondence; Ridgway, Robert, 1850-1929 -- Correspondence; Ornithologists -- Correspondence; West (U.S.) -- Description and travel; Geological Survey (U.S.)
Handwritten outgoing correspondence from Robert Ridgway to (Harriet Ridgway?), n.d., postmarked the Great Salt Lake City, Utah. Part of this letter is missing, but the existing piece discussed survey events, and it mentions some of the party...
Teenagers -- Correspondence; Ridgway, Robert, 1850-1929 -- Correspondence; Ornithologists -- Correspondence; West (U.S.) -- Description and travel; Geological Survey (U.S.)
Painting of two roadrunners done in watercolor on paperboard. One bird is walking in a road and the other is flying above the road. The bottom left corner is signed "John L. Ridgway-1941." Title is assigned by the cataloger. Original painting is...
Painting of two roadrunners in a landscape with boulders done in gouache and watercolor on paperboard. One is walking along a road and the other is in flight above the road. Signed in the bottom left corner "J.L. Ridgway-1940" below the title. ...
Brush drawing in ink of foot bones of fossil elephant. Above title in lower right corner is written "Brush drawing from specimen Los Angles Museum." "2/3 nat size JLR" is also written in the lower right corner along with an indecipherable...
These Cyanotypes represent the oldest comprehensive collection of images that document the history of Utah State University. The 364 images in this exhibit were taken from Agricultural Extension Service scrapbooks. Many of the images were published...
Agriculture -- Pictorial works; Animals -- Pictorial works; Cache Valley (Utah and Idaho) -- Pictorial works; Utah State University -- Pictorial works; Utah State University -- Buildings -- Pictorial works; Classrooms -- Utah -- Logan -- Pictorial...
The Compton Studio collection in the Utah State University Special Collections and Archives division of Merrill Library houses over 100,000 glass-plate, nitrate and acetate negatives. Alma Compton started the Compton Studio in 1884 in Brigham City,...
Brigham City (Utah) -- Pictorial works; Portrait photography; Cache Valley (Utah and Idaho) -- Pictorial works; Landscape -- Pictorial works
In this letter to the editor of the Logan Herald Journal, her hometown newspaper, Laura Merrill writes from the Topaz Relocation Center, describing the small libraries she oversees as the Center's Librarian and what life is like inside Topaz. This...
Central Utah Relocation Center -- Libraries; Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945; Central Utah Relocation Center; Merrill, Laura Liona Rees, 1876-1963 -- Correspondence; Letters to the editor -- Utah -- Topaz
Written and illustrated by residents of Topaz, this 55 page collection of stories and articles recounts the experiences and feelings of the Japanese Americans forced to leave cherished homes, jobs, possessions, and pets for the dusty, stark...
Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945; Japanese Americans -- Attitudes
This is the holiday issue of Trek, a quarterly literary magazine produced at the Topaz Relocation Center. Edited by Jim Yamada, with Mine Okubo as Art Editor, this issue contained the following articles: State of the City by Taro Katayama;...
Central Utah Relocation Center -- Periodicals; Central Utah Relocation Center; Geology -- Utah; Japanese Americans; Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945
Guidebook to the Central Utah Relocation Project in Topaz, Utah describes to incoming residents the layout, facilities, and services of the center. Illustrated by Yuri Sugihara, the guidebook contains maps, building layouts, a diagram of the...
Central Utah Relocation Center; Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945
Congressional hearings in Jan. and Feb. 1944 on several bills, H.R. 2701, 3012, 3446, and 3489, proposing (1) expatriation of Japanese-Americans who under oath expressed loyalty to Japan and (2) creation of a Japanese Deportation Commission. The...
Japanese Americans -- Law and legislation; Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945
In 1980, the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians was established to review the facts and circumstances surrounding the relocation of American citizens and permanent resident aliens during World War II and "recommend...
Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945; United States. War Relocation Authority; Detention of persons -- United States; Japanese Americans -- Civil rights
Official publication by the War Relocation Authority describes its policies and procedures established as of May 1943. It addresses center policies on leave, work placement, travel and subsistence, food, lodging, health services, clothing...
Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945; United States. War Relocation Authority
Describes the background and nature of the U.S.'s program for relocating Japanese-Americans initiated in early 1943, a few months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945; United States. War Relocation Authority; Detention of persons -- United States
Of the nine final reports written by the War Relocation Authority, this one differs in attempting to give a comprehensive view of the WRA program in its entirety rather than focusing on some particular facet of the program as did the other reports....
United States. War Relocation Authority; Japanese Americans; Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945
This report contains more than 100 tables and charts detailing statistics and characteristics describing the more than 120,000 people of Japanese descent who were under the jurisdiction of the War Relocation Authority during World War II. Data...
Japanese Americans -- Statistics; Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945
Report describes how the War Relocation Authority was established, organized, and managed. It covers in detail the logistics of setting up, staffing, supplying, and then closing the centers. One section covers the agency's records management of...
Report describes the War Relocation Program from its inception in 1942 to closure of relocation centers and resettlement of evacuees in 1945. It covers why and how the War Relocation Authority was created, the meeting with state governors in Salt...
Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945; United States. War Relocation Authority
Report describes the Emergency Refugee Shelter at Fort Ontario, Oswego, New York where 1,000 refugees of various European nationalities were brought to the United States from Italy by order of President Roosevelt in 1944; they were to be returned...
Fort Ontario State Historic Site (Oswego, N.Y.); World War, 1939-1945--Refugees
This report examines how property owned by West Coast Japanese Americans in 1942 was handled when they were forced to go to relocation centers. Table of Contents: Legal Provisions for Controlling the Assets of Enemy Nationals in Time of War;...
Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945; Property; Farm ownership
This report examines the phases of the WRA program in relation to legal issues. It is broken into 3 sections: I. The constitutionality of evacuation and detention; II. Legal considerations in the development of center management policies; III....
Report examines the development and function of community government within the relocation centers. It describes early debates on how centers should be governed, problems caused by differences in attitudes and values held by alien Japanese (Issei)...
Japanese Americans; Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945
This report examines the postwar adjustment of relocated Japanese Americans during the 18 months following the closure of the Japanese American relocation centers in 1945. Begun in July 1946, the study was "to analyze the effects of the evacuation...
Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945; Japanese Americans
This report begins by examining how the relationship between Japanese Americans living on the West Coast in 1942 with other residents led to their being singled out for evacuation and placement in relocation centers after the bombing of Pearl...
Japanese Americans; Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945
Aerial view of campus looking east from above the Smart Gymnasium, September 4, 1935. Size of photograph: 7.5 x 9.75 in.
Utah State University -- History -- Pictorial works; Utah State Agricultural College -- History -- Pictorial works; Utah State University -- History -- Aerial views
View of campus looking north showing the Smart Gymnasium and the smoke stack above the Heating Plant, 1920s. Size of photograph: 5 x 7 in.
Utah State University -- History -- Pictorial works; Utah Agricultural College -- History -- Pictorial works; Utah State University. Heating Plant -- History -- Pictorial works
Man in a suit riding a makeshift "bucking bronco" made from a barrel suspended above the ground by lengths of rope, circa 1965. Four members of the Rodeo Club, possibly including Chad P. Winn, are jerking on the rope to make the barrel swing. Size...
Utah State University -- History -- Pictorial works; Utah State Agricultural College. Rodeo Club -- Pictorial works
View of the interior of the library, located in the north wing of Old Main, ca. 1900. Library moved in 1902 to the second floor, above the President's office.
Utah State University -- History -- Pictorial works; Agricultural College of Utah -- History -- Pictorial works; Academic libraries -- Utah -- Logan -- History -- Pictorial works; Utah State University. Old Main -- History -- Pictorial works;
Water damaged walls in Old Main during the restoration process following the fire. A survey was made by removing material above doors in the damaged area to determine which openings actually existed in the original structure.
Utah State University -- History -- Pictorial works; Utah State University. Old Main -- History -- Pictorial works; Architecture -- Conservation and restoration -- Utah -- Logan -- Pictorial works;
No. 1905. View of Me-Shong-An-Avah. Views in the Canons of the Colorado River and among the Aztec Cities of Arizona. Showing houses three and four stories high. This town is built above the valley some 1200 feet. Its inhabitants number about 350....
