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Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typescript. The item is an autobiography of Edith Lewis Hepworth. She was born in Provo, Utah, on 4 September 1874. She later moved to San Juan County, Utah, where she observed Apache and Cherokee Indians, and she describes the activities of the Indians. She writes mostly about her early life. She married Thornton Hepworth in 1901 and had seven children. Her husband died in 1926.

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Oral history interview with Cecil Jones, conducted on 1 July 1971 by Suzanne Jansen for the Utah State Historical Society and California State University, Fullerton, Oral History Program.

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Oral history interviews with Albert R. and Gladys Perkins Lyman, conducted by Charles Peterson, Gary Shumway and Stanley Bronson on 4 February 1970 and 23 August 1973 for the Utah State Historical Society and the California State University, Fullerton Oral History Program.

Scope and Contents Oral history interview transcript with Irene Hatch Redd on October 18, 1970, conducted by Gary L. Shumway and Scott Blickenstaff for the Utah State Historical Society and California State University, Fullerton, Oral History Program. The subject is Colonia Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico. Irene discusses her childhood in Utah and Mexico, life in the Mormon colonies of Chihuahua through the Revolution, the immigration to Blanding, Utah, and her life there. Bound manuscript, 42 pages of text, indexes...

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Includes contracts from and contact information for participants in the San Juan County Public Lands Oral History Project, as well as the original audio recordings of the oral history interviews, and transcripts for those interviews, 2011.

Scope and Contents This collection pertains to the development of a uranium mine in San Juan County, Utah, owned by Thomas Kearns from 1914 to 1918. Files include business correspondence between Kearns and the mine foremen, mining associates, and government agencies; business correspondence between John (J.F.) Fitzpatrick, Kearns’s personal secretary, and the mine foremen, miners, mining associates, and government agencies; water appropriation documents concerning the ownership of water rights around the mine...