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San Juan County (Utah) -- History

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:

Dick Butt ; sheriff of San Juan

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230345768]
Identifier: MSS 969
Scope and Contents

Carbon copy of a typewritten biography. The date of its composition is uncertain. Lyman writes about Willard George Richard Butt, sheriff of San Juan County, Utah.

Dates: approximately 1960
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Oral history interviews with Herman and Pearl Butt

 Item — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197231030328]
Identifier: MSS 6692
Abstract

Oral history interview transcript of Herman and Pearl Butt, sponsored by the University of Utah and the California State University, Fullerton Oral History Program as part of a southeastern Utah focus.

Dates: 1971 July 30; 1972 July 4
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Life of Samuel Rowley

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230326339]
Identifier: MSS SC 2764
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a typewritten autobiography. Rowley writes about his conversion to the Mormon Church, his migration to Utah with the Willie handcart company in 1856, and his life in Parowan and San Juan County, Utah.

Dates: approximately 1901
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Albert R. Lyman journals

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1425
Scope and Contents

Collection includes two sequences of daily journals, his Journal and his Thots as well as an autobiography to 1946.

Dates: 1893-1973
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Postcards of San Juan County, Utah cliff-dwellings

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197225542247]
Identifier: MSS 3694
Scope and Contents

Collection contains nine black and white postcards of scenes from the ruins left by the ancient cliff-dwellers in San Juan County, Utah.

Dates: approximately 1900
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Settlement and growth of San Juan County

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230322858]
Identifier: MSS SC 2610
Scope and Contents

Handwritten history of San Juan County, Utah.

Dates: approximately 1955
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Silas Sanford Smith diary

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230238575]
Identifier: MSS SC 325
Scope and Contents

Typescript of a diary which includes an account of organizing Mormon settlements in San Juan County, Utah and San Luis Valley, Colorado.

Dates: 1879-1880
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

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