Emery County (Utah); Castle Gate (Utah); Railroad Tracks; Geary, Elmo
Elmo Geary's college friend standing on the railroad tracks near Castle Gate in Carbon County. The sign on the left says "Do not travel tunnel. Get off the Trackway." There are two train tunnel areas in Price Canyon near Castle Gate and Helper. One...
Emery County (Utah); College Trip; Automobiles; Geary, Elmo; Roadster; Rumble Seat
Elmo Geary and his BYU college friends took a trip in 1936 through the Utah National Parks and the Grand Canyon in this roadster with a rumble seat which belonged to one of Elmo's friend.
Emery County (Utah); Guymon Store; Huntington (Utah) Mainstreet; Dodge, 1934
Elmo Geary's friend from BYU is standing in front of the Geary Store on Main Street of Huntington, Utah. Behind the man is Elmo Geary's father's 1934 Dodge. In the background is the Guymon Merc. which was across the street from the Geary Merc.
Emery County (Utah) Archives; National Parks; Road Trip; Geary, Elmo; College Friends; Chevrolet Roadster, 1932; Automobiles
Elmo Geary and some of his friends from BYU took a trip to the Utah National Parks and Grand Canyon in 1936. They drove in this car which belonged to a friend. It is a 1932 Chevrolet Roadster or Sports Coupe.
Emery County (Utah) Archives; Geary, Elmo; College Friends; Automobiles; National Parks; Chevrolet Roadster, 1932; Road Trip
Elmo Geary and college friends from BYU took a trip in this car in 1936 through the Utah National Parks and the Grand Canyon. The automobile belonged to a friend of Elmo's. It is a 1932 Chevrolet Roadster or Sports Coupe.
Emery County (Utah) Archives; Automobiles; Chevrolet Roadster, 1932; Geary, Elmo; Road Trip
Elmo Geary and some of his friends from BYU took a trip to the Utah National Parks and Grand Canyon in 1936. This is at Zion National Park. They made the trip in this automobile which belonged to one of the friends. It is a 1932 Chevrolet Roadster...
Emery County (Utah) Archives; Grand Canyon; College Friends; Geary, Elmo; Road Trip
Elmo Geary and some of his friends from BYU took a trip to the Utah National Parks and Grand Canyon in 1936. Elmo and friend are standing on cliff edge with the Grand Canyon in the background.
Emery County (Utah); San Rafael Swell; Recreation; Eastering; Richards, Drew; Guns
Drew Richards (left) with a friend pretending to duel on the San Rafael Swell, Easter weekend 1928. Spending Easter weekend on the Swell or the desert, as locals call it, has been a tradition since the early 1900s and still continues today. It is...
Emery County (Utah); San Rafael Swell; Recreation; Automobiles; Richards, Drew
Drew Richards and friend stuck in the mud in the San Rafael Swell which was not uncommon before roads were built. Usually they would have to get a horse to pull them out. Even today the graveled roads can be very muddy.
Emery County (Utah); San Rafael Swell; Mining; Uranium; Temple Mountain; Wheeler, Marion; Wheeler, Esther
Marion Wheeler mined at Temple Mountain in 1955 during the Uranium Boom. Pictured here are his wife, Esther, and his children with a friend or family member, Isabelle, and her children. Temple Mountain can be seen in the background. Marion...
Emery County (Utah); San Rafael Swell; Eastering; Recreation; Guns
Legends of the Wild Bunch in Emery County were strong, and still are. Drew and friend are pretending to duel in this photograph. Emery County and Carbon County have had the traditon of going to the San Rafael Swell or what locals call "Desert" for...
Guy and Lund Leonard with friend Clark Nielson -- three young boys playing in Huntington, Utah, with an automobile behind them, dating the photograph to the 1920s. Guy and Lund are Adeline's brothers.
Adeline Leonard at the age of four years old. She met her best friend Morrell Wakefield at this age. They lived across the fence from each other. Adeline says "We never had trouble getting over the fence."
was named "Little Muddy" from i t s muddy appearance. Eighteen miles north of this place i s Center Creek where over one-half of the Company remained, while the other half journeyed south, under the direction of Parley P. Pratt. Here it was, on a...
in increasing the capacity of our Iron Works. W began to e feel proud of our achievements; b u t , low and behold, the bursting of a rain cloud in the mountains brought a flood down the Creek, and in a few hours the labors of months of incessant...
One of the letters was written to inform him that his wife, Sarah Ann, had died of consumption.' The latest Washington paper was dated April 13. Henry received a letter from Martha Bristol in England, dated February 22, 1851. She wrote: My Dearest...