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;...
Marge Prunty talks about growing up on a ranch, marrying a rancher, establishing their own ranch, and raising their family on a ranch. She also talks about the other methods of supplemental income, including: teaching school, renting rodeo stock,...
Prunty, Marjory Bieroth--Interviews; Prunty, Gary--Interviews; Hay--Harvesting--Equipment and supplies; Range management; Ranchers; Range management; Stacks (Hay, grain, etc.); Beef cattle--Cow-calf system; Cattle ranching; Hunting guides;...
Mr. and Mrs. Wamsley discuss their ranching operation, raising their family on a ranch. Mrs. Wamsley talks about growing up on the ranch on which she still lives and has raised her own family. They speak about topics ranging from environmentalists,...
Wamsley, Stuart--Interviews; Wamsley, Diane--Interviews; Ranchers; Ranch Managers; Range management; Cattle ranchings; Hay--Harvesting--Equipment and supplies; Pasture, Right of; Pasture animals; Sheepherding; Beef cattle--Cow-calf system;...
Mr. Weston talks about his family history and how his ancestors came to settle in Rich County, Utah. He discusses his family ranch and how it’s been divided among family members over the generations. He also talks about his childhood through...
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;
History of the settlement of Logan, Utah by Ralph Smith, Mormon Pioneer, consisting of entries transcribed in typescript from part of his journal. Jan. 4, 1876 -Jan. 28th 1878). Starting with a short history of his English father who converted to...
Smith, Ralph, 1835-1914--Diaries; Mormons--Utah--Logan--Diaries; Mormons--Cache Valley (Utah)--Diaries; Mormon Church--Utah--Logan--History; Frontier and pioneer life--Cache Valley (Utah and Idaho); Mormon pioneers--Cache Valley (Utah and...
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;
The Rise and fall of the Logan Co-operative Mercantile Institution, 1869-1872, a history of the cooperative association in Logan, Utah, written by Leonard J. Arrington, for the Cache Valley Chapter of the Utah State Historical Society.
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...
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
United States Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel. Clarence King, Geologicst-in-charge. Part III. Ornithology. By Robert Ridgway.
Ridgway, Robert, 1850-1929 -- Correspondence; Ornithologists -- Biography; United States Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel (1867-1881); West (U.S.) -- Description and travel
Handwritten outgoing correspondence from Robert Ridgway to Father (David Ridgway), May 25, 1867. This letter again described to his father his travels through Panama and into the Pacific Ocean. It was mailed from the steamer "Constitution" at sea...
Teenagers -- Correspondence; Ridgway, Robert, 1850-1929 -- Correspondence; Ornithologists -- Correspondence; West (U.S.) -- Description and travel
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
February 1943 issue of Trek, a quarterly literary magazine produced at the Topaz Relocation Center. Edited by Jim Yamada, Taro Katayama and Marii Kyogoku, with Mine Okubo as Art Editor and Tom Yamamoto as contributing artist. Articles and stories...
Central Utah Relocation Center -- Periodicals; Central Utah Relocation Center; Velez de Escalante, Silvestre, d. 1792; Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945; Japanese Americans
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
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
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
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
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
Describes Japanese migration to the U.S. before World War II, characteristics of the Japanese-American people who settled on the West Coast, the myths and prejudices surrounding them, and how they were treated following the bombing of Pearl...
Japanese Americans; Japanese Americans -- Attitudes; Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945
June 1943 issue of Trek, a quarterly literary magazine produced by the residents of the Topaz Relocation Center. This issue was edited by Toku Okubo and Nobuo Kitagaki with Mine Okubo as art editor and Alfred Sawahata as contributing artist. ...
Central Utah Relocation Center -- Periodicals; Central Utah Relocation Center; Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945; Japanese Americans
