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The southeastern Utah oral histories (1963-1984) consist of personal recollections, in the form of transcripts and stories, from people who lived in southeastern Utah and were part of its history. Each of the stories centers around the individual perspective of the interviewee. The collection covers a wide range of issues from the early settlements of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Mexico to uranium mining or Navajo trading. Most of the interviews were done in the early 1970s, giving information about conditions from the turn of the twentieth century. They describe what living conditions were like, from different vantage points as well as regions.
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Gift of Gary Shumway in 2001.
Processed by Elizabeth Rogers in 2001.
History of Bluff, Utah.
Reminiscences of early days in Bluff, Utah, and cattle and sheep industry in Utah and Colorado.
Bluff, Utah.
Reminiscences of southeastern Utah.
Southeastern Utah cattle industry and the Posey War.
Experiences in the cattle and sheep industries.
Flour milling, mining, motorcycles.
Uranium industry experiences.
Flour milling and other experiences.
Recollections of Mexico and early Blanding.
Road construction.
Flour and oil distribution business.
Polygamy.
Life history.
Experiences in Mexico and Utah.
History of Bluff, Utah.
Kaiparowits power project.
Sheep industry.
Oil in southeast Utah.
Bureau of Indian Affairs hospitals and St. Christopher's Mission, Bluff, Utah.
Bureau of Land Management in southeastern Utah.
St. Christopher's Mission and Hat Rock Retreat.
Game and wildlife preservation.
Bluff, Utah.
The Civilian Conservation Corps in Blanding.
Kaiparowits power project.
Experiences in Blanding, Utah.
Blanding's water supply and tunnel project.
Mormon exodus out of Mexico.
Mormon colonies and Blanding tunnel project.
Mexico, the exodus, and life in the United States.
Law enforcement in Blanding, Utah.
Experience in Mexico and Blanding.
Trading days and Navajo stock reduction.
Saint Christopher's Mission, Bluff, Utah.
Origin of radio station KUTA, Blanding, Utah.
Navajo crafts and trading.
Experiences as a Navajo trader, mining on the reservation.
Experiences in Mexico and Utah.
Reminiscences of life in Blanding, Utah.
Education of Navajo women on the reservation.
General history of Bluff, Utah.
Game, wildlife, and range preservation.
General history of Bluff, Utah.
Sheep, cattle, predators, and experiences in Blanding.
Autobiography.
Law enforcement in Blanding, Utah.
St. Christopher's Mission.
Early History of Hanksville and Blue Valley.
Life in Colonia Diaz, Chihuahua, Mexico and Blanding, Utah.
Life in Blanding, Utah.
St. Christopher's Mission, Bluff, Utah.
Trapping in Utah.
Recollections of a San Juan pioneer.
Recollections of Blanding, Utah.
Blanding Tunnel Project: CCC (Civilian Conservation Corp).
The following titles are included in one volume: Margie H. Lyman, "Marvin Finlinson Lyman: A Biography"--Blanding tunnel project; Marvin Lyman--Gold Mining on Blue Mountain, Utah; Margie Lyman--Life in Early Blanding.
BYU archeological dig.
Mormon polygamy.
The cattle industry in southeastern Utah.
General history of Bluff, Utah.
The following titles are in the same volume: Ida Palmer Nielson--Experiences in Mexico and Blanding, Utah; Albert R. Lyman, "Hans Joseph Nielson"; Lydia Redd, Louisa Redd Lyman, Venice Nielson Lyman and Yvonne Nielson Keele, "A Brief Sketch in the life of Ida Evelyn Lyman"; Erma Lee N. Hurst, "History of Joseph Edward Nielson"; Peggy Ruth Nielson Hafen, "History of Joseph Edward Nielson"; Joseph LeRoy Nielson, "Eulogy of Joseph Edward Nielson"; Venice Nielson Lyman, "I remember Dad"; Yvonne Nielson Keele, "A Tribute to my Dad"; Erma Nielson Hurst, "A Tribute to my Father, Joseph Edward Nielson"; DeReese Nielson, "A Tribute to my Father"; Rex Nielson, "A Tribute to my Dad"; Peggy Nielson Hafen, "My Father, Joseph Edward Nielson"; Funeral Services for Joseph Edward Nielson; Rex Nielson, "A Tribute to my Mother on her Eightieth Birthday"; Jane Hurst, "Grandma Nielson"; Jessie Kay Lyman, "Grandma"; Jessie Kay Lyman, "March, 1975"; Grandma Nielson, "Poem"; "Ida Palmer Nielson's 80th Birthday" Program; Chloe Amelia Palmer Nielson, "Life's History of James William Palmer and Olive Myrtle Palmer"; Jesse Kay Lyman, "Ida Palmer Nielson"; "Ida P. Nielson's Account of her Trip back to Old Mexico."
Blanding tunnel project and early Blanding.
Early Bluff and Blanding history.
City government of Blanding, Utah.
Life history.
Reminiscences of life in old Mexico, New Mexico, and Blanding, Utah.
General history of southeastern Utah.
The cattle industry.
General history of Bluff, Utah.
Livestock in southeastern Utah.
St. Christopher's Mission.
Wildlife and beaver trapping.
Cattle industry.
Colonia Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico.
The following titles are in the same volume: Kent Redd--History of Parley Redd Mercantile; Ruth Hurst Redd, "Family History of Kent Redd"; Irene Redd--Settling of Eastland and Schoolmarm Experience; Family History of Irene Meyer Redd; Maria Vreeken Meyer, "The Story of My Parents As I Remember It"; Irene Meyer Redd, "Childhood Memories."
General history of Blanding.
The Civilian Conservation Corps, Moab, and the Depression.
Indian job training.
Uranium Industry Experiences.
A History of Mary Elizabeth Johnson Shumway; A Glimpse of the Spirit World; Eunice Shumway Guymon, "Reminiscences of the Peter and Mary Shumway Home"; Ruth Shumway Robinson, "My Memories of My Father and Mother"; Ruth Shumway Robinson, Reminiscences of the Peter and Mary Shumway Home"; Bessie Agnes Shumway Jordan, "Reminiscences of the Peter and Mary Shumway Home"; Grant and Mabel Shumway, "Reminiscences of the Peter and Mary Shumway Home"; J. Glen Shumway--Memories of his childhood experiences; Joseph Sixtus (Six) Shumway; Alice Shumway--Settling of Blanding; Ruth Guymon Holyoak; Cleo Higgins Shumway Helmann, "Peter Shumway"; Peter and Hattie Shumway--Experiences in the uranium Industry; Arah E. Shumway and Family; Arah Devar Shumway; Gerald Powell Shumway; Shannon Shumway Hammond; Shirley Shumway Redd; Dixie Shumway; Jolene Shumway Bailey; Keith Ardit Shumway; Gary Lee Shumway; Francine Shumway Sumner; Seth Shumway; Merwin Shumway; Ila Shumway Johnson; Walter Burdett Shumway; Earl Deloy Shumway; Clea Shumway Johnson; Glen Alden Shumway; Kenneth Dale Shumway; Harold Eugene Shumway; Virginia Shumway Redd; Iva Loo Shumway Perkins; Vivian Joy Shumway Holliday; Dorothy Shumway Nielson; Ruth Shumway Robinson, "Anna Lavinia Shumway Butt"; Carl Lamar Butt; Ginger Darlene Butt Palmer; Janet Elaine Butt Cummins; Ellen Pearl Butt Sanders; Nelson Carl Butt; Eric Leon Butt; Winston K. Butt; Glen Leon Butt; Harris Shumway; Harris Cleon Shumway; Norma Shumway Barton Wengreen; Mary Elsie Shumway Black; Dale Price Shumway; Claudia Shumway Orr; Harris Shumway--Uranium prospecting in southeastern Utah; Ruth Shumway Robinson; Lynne Anita Robinson, "The Paul Asbury Robinson Jr. Family"; Gale William Robinson; Keatsie Sharleen Jensen; Benjamin Denmark Jensen; Bessie Agnes Shumway Jordon; Kathleen Jordan Lockhart Warner; Hal Dewain Jordan; Bonnie Joe Jordan Coleman; Grant Lee Shumway; J. Glen Shumway; Mavis Claire Shumway Cosby; Kerry Glen Shumway; Bruce Lyman Shumway; Geraldine Shumway Brady; DeWayne J. Shumway; Dayne Lyman Shumway; Linda Shumway Young; Charles Mark Shumway.
Cattle industry.
Life in San Juan County.
Navajo trading experiences.
Early days in Blanding and Monticello.