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Oral Histories

Oral history is a method of collecting historical information through recorded interviews between a narrator with firsthand knowledge of historically significant events and an interviewer, with the goal of preserving substantive additions to the historical record. Because it is primary material, oral history is not intended to present the final, verified, or complete narrative of events. It is a spoken account. It reflects personal opinion offered by the interviewee in response to questioning, and as such it is partisan, deeply involved, and irreplaceable.

All literary rights in the manuscript, including the right to publish, are reserved to Museum of Moab. No part of the manuscript may be quoted for publication without the written permission of the director of Museum of Moab.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_column_text]
Baker, David b. 1924
Primary Subject: Uranium boom, early cowboy life, Park Service[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_column_text]
Blakenagel, Norma b. 1930
Primary Subject: Personal Oral History[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_column_text]
Byrd, Dennis “Pete”, b. 1921
Primary Subject: Personal history, first days of Moab’s uranium boom[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_column_text]
Dalton, Mel
Primary Subject: Personal history, law enforcement, Moab history
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Frost, Kent
Primary Subject: The Maze and Robber’s Roost[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_column_text]
Hines, Carol Balsley, b. 1913
Primary Subject: Personal History, Moab History[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_column_text]
Holloway, Arthur Lee “Banjo” b. 1916
Primary Subject: Early days drilling for oil, gas and minerals; how the miners lived, how they worked[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_column_text]
Keogh, John, b. 1924 and Mary
Primary Subject: Personal and Moab History[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_column_text]
Lawton, Merv b. 1922
Primary Subject: Personal History, Grand County Politics[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_column_text]
McDougald, Audrey b. 1928
Primary Subject: Uranium boom, Ken’s lake, early years growing up in Moab[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_column_text]
McDougald, William, b. 1927
Primary Subject: Water issues in Moab, local govt., mining history.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_column_text]
McPherson, Nellie, b. 1917
Primary Subject: McPherson family history[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_column_text]
Meador, Bill b. 1933
Primary Subject: Early years growing up in Moab, school years, teaching and as Superintendent, living in Moab during and after the uranium boom[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_column_text]
Meador, Inalyn b. 1934
Primary Subject: Personal History[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_column_text]
Mullen, Fern b.1919
Primary Subject: Ferne’s early life, Moab during the boom years, nursing at Allen Memorial Hospital[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_column_text]
Newell, Maxine b. 1919
Primary Subject: Moab during the boom times, World War II years, books she has written

Primary Subject: Park Service[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_column_text]
Oviatt, Dale b.1929
Primary Subject: Coming to Moab, uranium era[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_column_text]
Pierson, Lloyd b. 1920
Primary Subject: Personal History, WW II, Museum History[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_column_text]
Provonsha, Harold b. 1924
Primary Subject: Ranching, uranium mining and boom era[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_column_text]
Provonsha, Wilma “Billie” b. 1929
Primary Subject: Pack Creek Ranch, Museum history, WW II rationing[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_column_text]
Provonsha, Isabel b.1897
Primary Subject: Early years in La Sal,[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_column_text]
Rossignol, Dorothy b. 1930
Primary Subject: Life in Uranium camps, mining[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_column_text]
Shafer, Clara b. 1930
Primary Subject: Personal history, boom years[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_column_text]
Skewes, Deone b. 1920
Primary Subject: Early life in Moab, uranium boom[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_column_text]
Taberer, Frank “Pancho” b. 1930
Primary Subject: Moab history 60’s, explosives business, supplying the mines[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_column_text]
Taylor, Sam b. 1933
Primary Subject: Personal and family history, newspaper business, boom years[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_column_text]
Thompson, Rolly b. 1930
Primary Subject: Personal history, Four Corners Mining Co.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_column_text]
West, Jack
28-Primary Subject: #1 Moab history of Rotary, Chamber, and Jeep Safari
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Williams, Mitch b. 1916
Primary Subject: Moab history, development of tourism in Moab[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_column_text]
Wilson, Alan “Tug” b. 1946
Primary Subject: Bates Wilson[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_column_text]
Zufelt, Ruby b. 1908
Primary Subject: Early life in Moab, Ucola, and other Utah locations[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/4″][/vc_column][/vc_row]