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Used with permission from Charles Smiley Presents Films, this clip provides a brief overview of the history of the Utah-Idaho Central Railroad. It includes many images and actual footage of U.I.C. trains and from passengers riding the trains. A copy…
To provide better service for customers, the O.L.I. implemented new heated railroad car technology to increase the quality of freight services provided by the railway company. The Logan Republican printed this article on December 11, 1917 to report…
Letter dated May 9, 1978, from George R. Zug, Smithsonian Cairman of the Department of Vertebrate Zoology to Utah State University president Glen L. Taggart announcing the return of Old Ephraim's skull to the University. Senator Orrin Hatch is set to…
Letter from Owen De Spain, Forest Ranger to Frank Clark, January 19, 1953 about typing up his story of killing Old Ephraim.
Photograph of Smithsonian tag on the skull of Old Ephraim, 2008. Tag reads: ""Smithsonian Institution, United States, National Museum. 243406. Ursus horribilis, Utah : Logan Canon [Canyon] Geo [George] R. Hill, Jr., July 1922.""
Photograph of serial number stamped on Old Ephraim's skull, 2008. "243406." Serial number is printed on the right side of the skull.
Photograph of teeth on the left side of Old Ephraim's skull, 2008.
Photograph of skull of Old Ephraim. View from the right side of the skull, 2008
Marianna L. Israelsen drawing of Old Ephraim, 1959. Illustration is included in Newell R. Crookston's
Snow sculpture of Old Ephraim made by Utah State University students (negative). 1960s
Article on the return of the skull of Old Ephraim from the Smithsonian, printed in the Utah State University newspaper Student Life, vol. 75, no. 80, on May 17, 1978. The article was written by Peggy Boss, staff writer.
Folder contains: "Old Ephraim: Finding the Truth in Folklore" newspaper article written by Ron Stewart, handwritten notes and research about Old Ephraim, Old Ephraim draft and newspaper mock-up, "Old Ephraim: The Great Grizzly of the Cache National…
Farming and Hunting: Stories from the Jensen Living Historical Farm. Compiled in 1991. Contains: "Encounters with Grizzlies;" The Great Varmint Hunt;" "Old Ephraim-the last grizzly bear in Logan Canyon" by Nora Dunne Slauson; 1917 "Fishing in…
The first-hand account of the Story of Old Ephraim by Fred Summers, May 24, 1977. Typed.
KVNU program copy of the Old Ephraim account, September 30, 1975. Transcript is typed with handwritten edits.
Story of Old Ephraim written by Nora Dunne Slauson, Undated.
Transcript of Old Ephraim -- #2 by J. Arbon Christensen, between 1960 and 1979.
Keith Jorgensen's Magnavox Home Entertainment Center heading with story of Old Ephraim typed, between 1960 and 1979.
An excerpt from "A Legacy of Monuments" written by Nephi J. Bott, 1973. This excerpt describes the history of the Old Ephraim monument and the folk song associated with it.
A brochure from American Savings explaining the Legend of Old Ephraim.
A photograph of a statue of Old Ephraim in front of American Savings in Logan, 1986.
Chapter about the legend of Old Ephraim from "The Western Folklore Conference: Selected Papers (Monograph Series)" collected by Austin E. Fife.
Herald Journal article concerning the dedication of the Old Ephraim monument, September 23, 1968.
Old Ephraim folk song, August 15, 1966. The song is a parody of "Ye Elder's Of Israel," a traditional hymn from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This song was sung at the dedication of Old Ephraim's monument on September 21, 1966.
An article titled "Fine Races" in the Logan Leader on July 22, 1881. The article is about horse races in Mendon, Utah.
A Western Air Lines Convair CV-240 at the Logan-Cache Airport.
A view of the Logan-Cache Airport terminal and control tower looking west.
A view of the Logan-Cache Airport terminal and control tower looking northeast.
Image of the control tower at the Logan-Cache Airport. The tower was constructed in 1942.
Aerial view of the Logan-Cache Airport looking northwest.
An aerial view of the Utah State Agricultural College (USAC) campus looking east at Old Main, the Quad, and surrounding college buildings.
USAC students working in a large mechanics lab with a number of different engine types.
Two female students work on the engine of a Piper Cub airplane.
Cache Valley Flying Service CPTP students climb onto a bus at the Logan-Cache Airport.
Two members of the Cache Valley Flying Service sit at desks in one of the buildings at the Logan-Cache Airport.
Cache Valley Flying Service CPTP students stand in front of their Piper Cub training aircraft at the Logan-Cache Airport.