William Dunn in the Triangle X corral at sunset, August 8, 2017
Image of William Dunn in the Triangle X corral at sunset
Wranglers; Triangle X Ranch; Corral; Western clothing; Cowboy hats; Wild rags
Dude ranches--Wyoming--Jackson Hole
William Dunn stands in the corral at the Triangle X Ranch at sunset on August 8, 2017 wearing the hat and wild rag he describes during his interview.
Dunn, William, 1991-
Mathews-Pett, Amelia, 1988-
Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives, Jackson Hole Dude Ranching Tradition: Triangle X Folk Coll 64, Item
Digitized by: Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library.
Reproduction for publication, exhibition, web display or commercial use is only permissible with the consent of the USU Libraries Special Collections & Archives, (435) 797-8248.
Jackson Hole Dude Ranching Tradition:Triangle X
image/jpeg
616464 Bytes
eng
Image; StillImage
Triangle X Ranch, Grand Teton National Park, United States
21st century; 2010-2019
Outdoor Products; Catalog; DuPont;
DuPont
Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives, Outdoor Recreation Products Catalog Collection (Book Collection 72, D-7, undated)
Utah State University Libraries
Digital Initiatives Unit, Merrill-Cazier Library
In copyright https://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en
Outdoor Product; Catalog; Duraflex
Duraflex
Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives, Outdoor Recreation Products Catalog Collection (Book Collection 72, D-22, 2004)
In copyright, https://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en
Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives, Outdoor Recreation Products Catalog Collection (Book Collection 72, D-22, 2006)
Bob and Alice Durkin portrait, August 7, 2017 (1 of 2)
Image of Bob and Alice Durkin portrait (1 of 2)
Dude ranching
Bob & Aice Durkin on the porch of their cabin at the Triangle X.
Durkin, Bob; Durkin, Alice
Graham, Andrea, 1956-
Westrup, Rebekah, 1989-
1529873 Bytes
Triangle X Dude Ranch, Grand Teton National Park, Teton County, WY
Bob and Alice Durkin interview, August 7, 2017 (1 of 2)
Image of Bob and Alice Durkin interview (1 of 2)
Dude ranching; Folklore fieldwork
Alex Hodel & Rebekah Westrup setting up to interview Alice 7 Bob Durkin intheir cabin at the Triangle X Dude Ranch.
1478703 Bytes
Legends;
legend-tripping;
Folklore fieldwork assignment presenting several accounts of Witch Hecate in Logan Canyon.
LEGENDS OF LOGAN CANYON Tammy Durtschi Utah State University Fife Folklore Archives Logan, Utah Honors 336 Instructor: Wilson Winter 1981 • • • LEGENDS OF LOGAN CANYON Tannny Durtschi Logan, Utah 84321 Utah State University Mormon Folklore Honors 336 Winter Quarter, 1981 • • • TABLE OF CONTENTS Cover Essay ......................................... o •••••••••• ii Autobiographical Sketch •..•....•....•.••.•...••.••••..•...••••.• v List of Informants ............................................. vi Witch Hecida Title Informant Item How Witch Hecida Came Into Being ..• Lutz .•• ltem #l •..• Page # 1 Witch Hecida •.........•.•.....••.• Siler •.. Item #2 ••.• Page # 2 Witch Hecida ..•..................• Gates .•. Item 11=3 .... Page # 3 Personal Experience with Hecida .•.• Lutz .•• ltem #4 •... Page # 4 Saint Anne's Retreat -Ti-tl-e Informant Item St. Anne's Retreat .•••..•....•....• Lutz .•• ltem # 5 ... Page St. Anne's Retreat .•.•....•..••... Siler .•• Item 11= 6 .•• Page St. Anne's Retreat ••.•..•.•......• Hugie ... Item 11= 7 ••• Page St. Anne's Retreat •.•..•.•......•• Gates •.. ltem # 8 ... Page Personal Experience at St. Anne's.Hugie ••• ltem # 9 .•. Page The "Real" Story of St. Anne's ..... Lutz ••• Item 11=10 ••• Page Miscellaneous Legends <" -Ti-tl-e # 6 # 8 11= 9 11=10 11=11 #14 A fresence in Logan Canyon .•.•..•• Siler .•• ltem #ll ••• Page #15 The Man of Logan Canyon ••.......••. Ward •.• ltem #12 ••. Page #16 i • • • COVER ESSAY This has been an intriguing project to undertake. People's reaction when asked to be interviewed varied from one extreme to another. The great diversity in the version of the story from one person to the next was remarkable. In the following essay I will attempt to explain these statements as well as make some additional assertions. The topic I chose for my paper is the Ledgends of Logan Canyon. I concentrate most on Saint Anne's Retreat and Witch Hecida. Items 11 and 12 are just miscellaneous stories about Logan Canyon that I chose to include because I wanted to illustrate that there are many, many other ledgends about Logan Canyon other than the two main stories of St. Anne's and Witch Hecida. St. Anne's is located about five miles up Logan Canyon. There are many people who are sure that they know the "real" story about what happened there, but they all disagree about it. One of the "real" stories that I heard indicated that nuns were never at St. Anne's Retreat. (Item 1fl0) Another "real" story said that a family built ~he retreat, but then they decided to donate it to Utah State University. The University was too slow in accepting it so the family decided to donate it to the Catholic church. I was only able to obtain a very limited amount of facts about St. Anne's. It was built sometime during the 1930's and it eventually burned down. The ledgends are built around the demise of the retreat. The stories range from a hermit coming down out of the hills and killing all of the nuns to a story where it is actually the Mother Superior who does the killing. There is alot of diversity in who was really killed. One story states that all of the nuns got killed, whereas another story tells of babies that belonged to the nuns were drown in the swimming pool. The most detailed description of St. Anne's is found in Item #9. All that is now left of the original retreat is a swimming pool and the cement foundation of the original building. ii • • • The only logical reason that I can come up with as to why all of these stories began circulating is because up until the 1930's there were virtually no other churches in Logan. besides the Mormon church. When the Catholic church began prospering in the valley the Mormons resented it. When St. Anne's actually did burn the locals probably seized upon this as a chance to exploit the Catholic church and point out that this would never have happened if the Catholics were not wicked. Once it was a generally accepted fact that something Rad been going on at St. Anne's that shouldn't have been going on, the stories probably had free rein of the imagination. Stories began circulating that one of the nuns had gone crazy and killed her sister nuns. Other stories say that a 15 year old girl that the nuns had been taking care of had killed the nuns. There are two details that are included in most versions of the St. Anne's story. One detail is that there are generally dogs somewhere in the story. No one seems to know where the dogs came from, but they are there all the same. In most of the stories the do.gs play the part of being a guardian over the retreat. The second detail is the ~wimming pool. The swimming pool is always used as a means by which someone is murdered. Someone is thrown in the pool by someone else and drown. The swimming pool is still there today and is the factor that convinces alot of people of the validity of these stories. Witch Hecida stories offer even a greater variation between versions than doe ,; the St. Anne's stories. In each story Witch Hecida is in an entirely different location. up at Third Dam in Logan Canyon. (Item #1). One story puts her Another ledgend says that Witch Hecida resides in a cave in Logan Canyon. (Item #20 Still another story says that Witch Hecida comes down at Spring Hollow in the form of fog. (Item #3). But the most amazing story is that Witch Hecida came from St. Anne's Retreat. She was supposedly the Mother Superior that murdered all of the babies, and her original name was Saint Hecida • iii • • • Some of the people I talked with were anxious to share their stories with me. A couple of people I talked to told me that they knew the stories of St. Anne's and Witch Hecida, but they refused when I told them that their stories were going to be included in the Archives. Generally once people started talking and began telling me their stories they loosened up and would tell me anything I wanted to know. I recorded my interviews with my informants and then I typed them up exact~y as they were told. I would ask my informants questions to help draw similarities between the different versions. Theyonly editing of their original versdions was by eliminating repeated segments of their tales and dropping the unnecessary lIand ll s i • • • AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH I was born in Logan, Utah and I have lived here in Cache V~lley all of my life. I attended Sky View High School and Lam now a Freshman at Utah State University. My father is an Economics professor here at USU. a housewife and has dedicated her life to her family. My mother is My parents are the best anyone could ever ask for. I am the sixth out of seven children in our family . We have very strong family ties. I wouldn't trade my family experiences for anything. The reason I chose to do my paper on the legends of Logan Canyon is because I have lived here my entire life and I h.have heard these stories ever since I can remember. I was interested to see what other people thought of these stories and I was interested in collecting different versions of the same story. I am fascinated by people, and I enjoy doing projects that allow me to gain a better understanding of people and why they function like they do. This paper has given me an opportunity to get some insights that I otherwise would never have been able to gain. My hobbies include reading, being with and observing people, and sports. I could watch professional football forever! I also like participating in almost all sports. v • Gates, Larry. Hugie, Bryon Lutz, Chris • Siler, Jon Ward, Bruce • LIST OF INFORMANTS Larry was raised in Logan and attended Logan High. He is presently a Senior at Utah State University and is majoring in Pre-Med. He is the presently the president of the Honors Program at U.S.U. He has served an LDS mission. He contributed items 3 and 8 in this paper. Bryon is a Freshman at Utah State University. He was born in Logan and was raised in College Ward, Utah. He is currently waiting for his mission call. Bryon does not play with ouija boards since his experiences at St. Anne's. He took those events seriously and will have nothing to do with ouija boards or St. Anne's Retreat now. He contributed items 7 and 9. Chris was the most anxious to tell her stories of the people I interviewed. She is a Freshman at Utah State University. She is a non-mormon, but is ver~ knowledgable about our culture. She was by far the most cofrorful story teller I talked to. Items 1,4,5 and 10 belong to her. Jon is a Pre-Med major at Utah State University. He has lived in Cache Valley allt of his life. He is preparing for an LDS mission and will leave in June of this year. He enjoys skiing and playing racquetball. He contributed items 2,6and 11. Bruce was raised in southeastern Idaho. He was active in the Boy Scout program in Cache Valley. He served a mission in Alabama. He is currentJy a student at Utah State University studying Biology. His hobbies include snow skiing and reading. He contributed items number 12. vi • ~ i • • Chris Lutz "How Witch Hecida Came Into Being" February, 1981 USU Campus Item iH Chris told me this story when I asked her if she knew anything about Witch Hecida. Chris honestly believes that there is such a person as Witch Hecida. Her personal experience with Hecida is recounted in a later item. There was a camping excersion. She (Witch Hecida) was just a young girl and they all went up the canyon partying that night. up at Third Dam in Logan Canyon. They were all partying around and evidently one of the guys got rough and they took advantage of her and she was really upsec and really mad. She went after them and they were all drunk and laughing at her and she said, "don't do that" and she tried to fight them off, but they jumped her. She felt really bad, and they were all still so drunk and afterwards she was just kinda mad at them. She went after them with a club and they were all laughing and they pushed her into the water. She was drunk in the place and she drown, a young girl drown. The guys didn't know what to do. If they went back to town and were asked how she drown, well, what could they say? So she died there and thats how come she is in the water and she comes across like a ball. They call her a witch because anybody caught drinking or messing around up at Third Dam s~e will come and get. 1 • • • Jon Siler "Witch Hecida" February, 1981 USU Campus Item in Jon didn't know the people that actually had this experience. He heard this story from some of his friends when they were driving up Logan Canyon one night. This was told to me by a friend. It didn't happen to him, but he heard it from somebody else who heard it from somebody els~. Witch Hecida is suppose to be in Logan Canyon. She is suppose to have seven white mice and seven dogs. These guys were going through the cave one time and they smelled something and then they started to hear dogs barking and they thought that was really strange to hear dogs barking and they thought maybe a dog went in there and got caught or something. They kept going in there and they came to a big pit. They looked down there and sawall these mice and it ended up that there was seven mice and then they saw some dogs After they saw the dogs they left because they start­ed getting really scared because they knew about Witch Hecida. They left and never went back. ,2 • • • Larry Gates "Witch Hecida" February, 1981 UEU Campus Item if3 Larry couldn't remember the story very well. It had been a long time since he had heard it. The following is the story of Witch Hecida that he recall hearing from some of his friends in high school. He said that his friends didn't actually believe in ~~ci~a, it was just a good story to tell • . -. l . -u All I know is that a friend of mine, Steve Peterson, who is now in the Theatre Department used to go up there and do a little routine. I'm not even sure what it was, I was never with them. They would go up and call down Hecida in Spring Hollow and do a little chant and they had a little ritual they would do. Then the fog was suppose to come down, rolling down the mountain. You could see this blanket of white fog. It would move down through the trees toward the hollow. As far as I know they didn't ever stay around there to see what happened when the fog got down. I was never there when they did it. 3 • e ,e February ~ 1981 USU Ca!llpus Chris Lutz Item #4 "PersonaUExperience with Witch Hecida" Chris swears to this day that she saw Witch Hecida. She refuses to go up the canyon any more and tell ghose stories. She claims to have only been up the canyon once since her experience with Hecida. This is my Witch Hecida story~ this honestly happened to me. I'm really scared about things like that and they always told me that if you go up on Third Dam bridge in Logan Canyon and you stand there at midnight~ turn around three times and saY'tlWithh Hecida~ Witch Hecida~ Witch Hecida" and look over the water she will come to you. She'll come to you in a little golden ball~ like the good fairy. She comes across the water in this little golden ball and she comes to you and stands on the bridge. I figured it all out because it scared me. But it was nothing~ we all knew these stories. So one night~ me and my girlfriend--I guess we were juniors--were going out on a double date with these two guys and one guy had his brother's new 240Z. We went to Smithfield and we went to see the Love Bug. After­wards we were driving into town and we said "Let's go driving up the canyon and tell ghost stories". So we drove up the canyon and my friend was telling us about if you stand on the bridge and turn around three times Witch Hecida will come to you. We turned to gon onto the bridge and I said, "I'm scared, you guys, I just have this awful feeling"--it scared me real bad. So we went to tu~n the car around and we went to flip a "u" and thats a pretty big place up there, but the car would only go half way so we were wedged between the bridge and the road and it was just like in the Love Bug--this sounds really stupid--I ~; said, "Oh my gosh we are going to . • . " in the Love Bug we had just saw an hour earlier he went to flip a "u" and he didn't quite make it and he turned into the hill and the hill fell down on him. I said, "the hill is going to fall down on us". We all started screaming and we hurried and backed up and flipped around and started driving out of there as fast 4 • • • as we could. We were hauling "A", going 90 miles, no kidding. I lobked over at the speedometer. I said, "slow down, slow down, there is a car in front of us". It was an old beat up Falcon job. I said, "Oh my gosh, it's Witch Hecida". The two in the back were screamJng and laughing, kinda joking. I lOOked forward and there in the car it looked like her hair was just glowing. It looked like an old lady with one of those puffy hairdos. It was just kind oa like hazy-blue, like it radiated from her head. I said,"It's Witch Hecida, I know it, she knows that we are here". So we started slowing down and she started slowing down. There was just one person in the car. We were going 20 miles and hour. 20. After going 80. So we started slowing down and it:: (her hair) seemed to grow more brilliant, just like cotton candy, kind of fluffy and mysterious and I was just freaking out. So we slowed down and we thought that we would just let her go into town. She slowed down too. We were creeping along 20 miles an:~ hour. When we hit first dam we were going 5. She was going 5 and we were going 5 miles an hour. I said, "hit it!" and Vrooooooom •... we went right around her. We hightailed it up that hill. She started racing us! I said, "she is trying to catch us, she is trying to catch us." We hauled "A" into town. We were go­ing 90 down Fourth North. We ran a red light at Fourth DNorth cause we were so scared. She was right behind us, On Main Street we turned left and we went into that gas station and we turned around to watch, she was right behind us on that block, but she never came down to Main Street. We sat there and we just shook and shook and I said, "why didn't she come after us?" They told me that she can't come out of the canyon. Fourth North is still considered part of the canyon because of the slope. She cant turn onto Main Street. She just disappeared. To this day I swear that was Witch Hecida. I've never gone up the canyon and told ghost stories since. I won't. I believe in it • 5 • • • Chris Lutz "Saint Anne's Retreat" February, 1981 USU Campus Item 115 Chris heard this story at her Senior class party that was held at St Anne's Retreat which is located up Logan Canyon. She doesn't believe this story, but she was anxious to tell it to me. St. Anne's used to be a retreat for nuns. In the Catholic church they believe in taking care of their welfare program. There was this one girl who was living up there because evidently she didn't have any parenti. The nuns were taking care of her while an adoption was goin~ through. She was about four-teen or fifteen years of age. ',.' ~ '; She was a gorgeous girl, but ·she had a few mental problems because she thought no one wanted her. She was living up there because she was so old and no one had adopted her. While she was living up there with the nuns she really took good care of herself. She had this long beautiful hair and every­one told her how beautiful they thought she was. They would tell her not to worry and that someone would want someone·'as beautiful as her. She goes out on this date one night and she is traveling through the canyon and they wreck and her face went through :. the windshield. He died, he got thrown out of the car when the car started to roll. Her face went through the windshield. It severed all her hair off. She was lucky to make it. She broke her arm. Her other arm went through the windshield with her and it got cut off. And they found her there. She was about half crazy because she couldn't get out of the windshield. She was stuck, just like that. He was dead and she was just hysterical and half crazy when they found her, but she did survive. They had to shave off all her hair because of the head lacerations. They had to sew up her scalp again. She had a hook arm because all the nerves in her ar~were so badly damaged that they couldn't put it back on. She was having a lot of trouble adjusting. They took her back up to the convent and told her not to worry. All of the nuns were sweet to her, but she was never the same. She would have 6 • • • fits and tremors. On the first anniversary of the accident was the ending of St. Anne's. They went up there the next day and every single nun had been hacked to death with a hooken arm and that girl was gone. They never found her. That's when they closed St. Anne's. If you go there at midnight you can see her face looking into the swimming pool looking at her hair gone because that is what triggered it off. It was her anniversary, her hair was gone, and she wasn't the same. She was out walking in the moonlight and looked in the pool and saw her reflection of her with her long hair. She was all nice and normal. Then it turned midnight when it happened and she looked back and she was standing there saying, "oh ye s, someone wi 11 want me, I'm so great. II Then it turned midnight and she saw herself as she really was, all scarred and deformed. Her hair was short and hacked off. And her arms .•. 0 She went crazy and turned around and ran into the house and slashed everybody up. They found hook marks in the door where she tried to claw in. She broke her way in and killed them and cut off al1 their hair. Then she ran away in to the hills. They say that if you go back there at midnight and look into the pool she will appear to you. 7 • • • Jon Siler " Saint Anne~ s Retreat" Fe bruary, 1981 USU Campus Item ~f~ Jon first heard this story while he was driving up Logan Canyon on his way to Saint Anne's with some friends. He doesrrt personally believe this story, but he admits that it did make for a frighten­ing experience at St. Anne's. I heard that St. Anne's was at first built and owned by the Catholic church. They would send nuns up there. First I heard that it was a place where they would send nuns that got pregnant. I heard that there was this guy that lived up there in the hills that was a hermit. He would come down and really hassle all the Catholics there. He would tell them to leave and they never would. So he started getting physical and violent. It ended up that he came down and killed these nuns. He killed all the nuns in different places. There's a shack down lower and one got hatched there. One got drown in the ~wimming pool. I have also heard that one nun got pregnant and went and drown herself in the swimming pool. People have told me that they have gone up there and they had been walking up the road and there was a noose hanging from a tree that was swinging back and forth. They have also sworn to have seen dogs up there. 8 • • • Bryon Hugie "Saint Anne's Retreat" February, 1981 USU Campus Item #7 Bryon first heard this story from his grandmother. He doesn't know where she heard it from. He has heard this story more than once and from different people so he figures there is a good chance some of it is true. It (St. Anne's) used to be an old nunnery. It was a sin for the nuns to have kids. Well there was a camp up there and there was a couple of nuns that did have kids. The mother nun, I don't know what they call them, found out about the babies so she stole the kids one night and threw them in the swimming pool and drown them. There is a big swimming pool up there and a bunch of old buildings. The main nunnery where they used to hold their meetings burned down and all there is is an old building place. The cement foundation is still there and that is about all. She threw the babies in the pool and they drown and that same night the whola place burned down. It all happened in one day and one night. From what I hear, the nuns aren't permitted up there any more. They aren't suppose to go up there and they closed it all down. I don't know if they (the nuns) all left of if they are still here in the valley. The original name of that mother nun was Saint Hecida. There is suppose to be some dogs sitting there watching the place for Witch Hecida. When ever you go up there you are suppose to be able to hear their chains or hear them bark. 9 • • • Larry Gates "Saint Anne's Retreat" February, 1981 USU Campus Item #8 Larry wasn't too sure on the details, but the main ideas are included in the story. .He heard the story from some of his friends quite a few years ago. It's just a typical maniac nun story. The nun with the hook, she lost one hand. There were two kids up the canyon going at it in the back of the car. They heard something russtling in the bushes. They got real nervous and drove home. When they got home there was a hook hanging in the door handle. (The person with the hook was suppose to be a nun from St. Anne's) 10 • • • Bryon Hugie February, 1981 USU Campus 'Item 119 "Personal Experience with Saint Anne's Retreat" At first Bryon was a little reluctant to talk about this after I told him it would be typed up and recorded in the Archives. Once I got him talking though, he told me everything I wanted to know. It all started one night up Logan Canyon. Me and a bunch of my friends had a big brain storm idea. We would cruise up to St. Anne's and have a little fun. We had heard a bunch about the place so we decided to go up and check it out by ourselves. There was me and three other guys the very first time we went up there. We got up there and it was pretty quiet and there was a full moon. We got up there and we started walking up in there. We thought we heard a bunch of stuff ••• We got up there and we went into the swimming pool. (there is no water in the pool now.) My friends like playing with ouija boards. I thought this was going to be super that we would be playing with a ouija board at the bottom of the swimming pool. We didn't have one with us that night so we figured that we would bring one up next time we came. We looked through all the old buildings and that was pretty scary. We saw a lot of mounds of dirt with crosses on top of them with weeds over the crosses. It was pretty weird because they were allover. They were around the houses, and they were on the side hills. We looked around a little bit longer but we didn't stay too long. The next night we got a bunch more of people. I think there was about six, seven of us, maybe eight of us up there. We took a ouija board and we got up there and played with it at the bottom of the swimming pool. It was a full moon again. The board was working super. I swear that I heard dogs chains that night and so do my buddies. It was weird the way it happened. We told everybody about it. The next night we went up there with quite a few more friends. We took a couple car loads up. When we got up there nobody dared to go in there. There was a weird feeling there. There is a bridge there before you go in and it is all locked up. The whole place is chained up and nobody wanted to go in. 11 • • • I finally told them that I would go in if somebody would come with me. So me and two other guys went in there and we got way back in there and there was some people up in there. It is summer homes up in there now. We knocked on their door, but nobody answered. So we left. We went and rumaged through a bunch of old junk that is under­neath the cabins and looked through it and found a bunch of old beds and dressers and junk like that. My mom and a few people that I have asked about the place don't really care for us to go up there. For a while we were going up about every night. It was for about three weeks straight. It was a big thing. We'd take everybody up there and show them around and show them the things that we had found. St. Anne's is a weird place. We went up there some nights and there was no way we could find it. It's in a corner. It's just off the side of the road and it has a bunch of trees around the road. It'~ all grown in the there is an old bridge that is chain­ed up and there is no way you could break that chain. St. Anne's is pretty neat looking. There is a bridge and then there is an upper road or a lower road you can go on. It forks off and right in the center of that fork is where the swimming pool sits. It sits up on a great big high mound of grass. It's got a diving board off of it. After that the right road dies and the left one goes up a canyon. The nuns used to go up this canyon to do their meditating and being with the Lord. It's got a big gate going across the bridge. Some nights we have gone up there and we have combed that canyon. It's down from the Girl's Camp and we have combed the right side of the road fifty times and there was no way we could find that road. We have all but walked up and down there. We've gone about 5 miles an hour in the car and there is no way we have been able to find it. But on some nights we've been able to drive right to it. I remember one special night. We all jumped in the car and went way off the side of the road just as slow as we could, but 12 • • • we thought we might have missed it so we went up and down that road about 10 times and we never did find it. There was a bunch of us looking, so it's not just a matter of one of us missing it. There was just no way it was there • • • • Chris Lutz February, 1981 USU Campus Item iHO "The 'Real' Story of Saint Anne's Retreat" Chris told me that the following story is the real story of St. Anne's Retreat. I have no reason to believe that this is not the real story, but on the other hand, I have no proof to back this story up. She did not tell me where she heard this story. There is a Catholic church on Fraternity Row. Some people owned this church--it was their house. They were Catholic and they wanted to hold masses and there was no other churches except the Mormon church. So the Catholics built on that chapel part of it. They named it Saint John's, because they always name everything after saints. ~Ci,e!:1 Then it started becoming big and lots of Catholic families started moving in so they converted their whole house into a church. You know, with a place for the Father to sleep. And then they built St. Anne's for themselves as a home. And it was a home, it was not a retreat for nuns. Nuns were never there. It has a swimming pool up there. It's a really nice plaee with a family room and a kitchen and bedrooms and a little deck to overlook the swimming pool. It's just a house . --------------------------- ------------ • • • Jon Siler "A Presence in Logan Canyon" February, 1981 USU Campus Item tfoll This story happened to the brother of one of Jon's friends. He believes it to be true because it happened to someone he knew that swears that it actually happened. Jon said this experience was instrumental in the reason the boy involved in the story served a mission. The person this story happened to is the brother of a friend of mine. He was a pretty rowdy guy.[,:,He was driving through Logan Canyon by himself one night and all of a sudden he felt a type of presence or something and so he looked in his rear view mirror. In the back seat there was two red eyes looking at him. He drove through the canyon because he didn't know what would happened if he stopped. Then all of a sudden somebody started rattling in his 8-track tapes in the back seat. Then some tapes started flipping around in the back of his car. He kept driving all the way home and nothing ever really happened, but he kept looking in the rear view mirror and those red eyes were right there all the way down the canyon. When he got home after that he straightened up and went on a mission. 15 • • • Bruce Ward "The Man of Logan Canyonll February, 1981 USU Campus Item 1112 Bruce heard this story while he was at a scout camp. He doesn't believe the story himself, but he thinks that some of the people at the camp did. The story is about a guy who is suppose to live in the Logan mountains. He worked in a mine. His foreman for some reason ended up falling in love with this guy's wife. So the foreman set a charge that had a delayed fuse on it. They set it off and it didn't go off and it didn't go off so the foreman sent Hyrum in after it ti see what was going wrong with the charge in the mine. Just as Hyrum got in there it blew up. They thought it had killed him and it really didn't. It just burned one side of his face real bad. He didn't dare go home cause he looked so awful, and it made him sick. So he just lived in the mountains for a long time. He went back and he killed this. foreman and no one could never figure out how he had died. Hyrum was suppose to have been seen by some people, but he would always run away. No one ever got a good look at him. Some forest ranger were up there in the mountains one day and they say they saw this guy that was doing something, but they couldn't figure out what it was so they got up real close and he turned around and one side of his face was a11bblack and he had filed his teeth pointy. ~He started coming after the forest rangers so they ran, and they got in their truck and the story is suppose to go that he was so strong that he ripped the door off as they drove away. They found some old cabins up there that had human ske1tons hanging on hooks. The story has it that he would go around and kill people and that he would take them back up to his cabin. 16
Durtschi, Tammy;
Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections and Archives, FOLK COLL 8, 81-03
Digitized by : Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library.
Reproduction for publication, exhibition, web display or commercial use is only permissible with the consent of the USU Libraries Special Collections and Archives, phone (435) 797-2663.
Utah State University undergraduate student fieldwork collection, 1979-2011 FOLK COLL 8 USU
legends (folk tales);
application/pdf;
7640751 Bytes
Text;
Logan Canyon (Utah); Cache County (Utah); United States;
Outdoor Product; Catalog; 2018
Dynafit
Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives, Outdoor Recreation Products Catalog Collection (Book Collection 72, D-17, 2018)
Outdoor Product; Catalog; 2019
Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives, Outdoor Recreation Products Catalog Collection (Book Collection 72, D-17, 2019)
19th century--Photographs; Stereoscopic views
No. 7123. Bridge over the Weber River. Views along the line of the Pacific Rail Road. Ogden in the distance. Utah Central Rail Road. Published and photographed by E. & H. T. Anthony & Co.
E. & H.T. Anthony (Firm)
Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections and Archives, 19th Century Western Stereo-views, P0349 1:11:02
Digitized by: Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library
Union Pacific Railroad Company
Reproduction for publication, exhibition, web display or commercial use is only permissible with the consent of the USU Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives, (435) 797-8248
19th Century Western Stereo-views Collection, P0349
image/jpeg;
eng;
Image; StillImage;
Weber River, Weber County, Utah, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/5784448/
19th century; 1870-1879
No. 7708. Views in Salt Lake City. St. Marks Episcopal Church
No. 7708. Views in Salt Lake City. St. Marks Episcopal Church. Published and photographed by E. & H. T. Anthony & Co.
Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections and Archives, 19th Century Western Stereo-views, P0349 1:11:01
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/5780993/
memento mori; funeral imagery; death; mourning imagery
A picture of a woman in an open casket surrounded by flowers. (The photograph was commissioned by Mr. E. J. Berger.)
E. J. Berger; Emily Crumpton editing
Utah State University, Merrill Cazier Library, Special Collections and Archives, COLL P0313, 1929:0151
Utah State University
Reproduction for publication, exhibition, web display or commercial use is only permissible with the consent of the USU Libraries Western and Mormon Americana curator, phone (435) 797-2661 or the USU Libraries Manuscript Curator, phone (435) 797-0891.
USAC; Logan; Utah; music department; letter of recommendation; Roy Harris; Johana Harris; Franklin S. Harris; E.A. Jacobsen
A letter from E.A. Jacobsen (Dean) to President Franklin S. Harris recommending Roy and Johana Harris to be hired as Composer in Residence and Artist in Residence, respectively.
E.A. Jacobsen (letter writer)
Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections and Archives, Franklin S. Harris Papers, USU 3.1/7-2, bx 15, folder 1
Reproduction for publication, exhibition, web display or commercial use is only permissible with the consent of the USU Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives (email: SCWeb@usu.edu)
Logan, Utah
E.G. Peterson to Whom it May Concern, May 24, 1923
Utah Agricultural College, Emil Hansen, E.G. Peterson, Extension Services, Landscape, Architecture, Utah State University, History, Built Environment
This letter by UAC president E.G. Peterson details Mr. Hansen's efforts as an instructor of Landscape Gardner at the Utah Agricultural College. Mr. Hanse, in addition to designing much of the college grounds, also traveled throughout the state teaching communities about landscape architecture and design as part of the College Extension Services.
E.G. Peterson
Utah State University Merrill-Cazier Library Special Collections and Archives, RG 3.1/6-2 Box 159 Folder 15, Item 31
Utah State University Merrill-Cazier Library
Reproduction for publication, exhibition, web display or commercial use is only permissible with the consent of the USU Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections and Archives (435) 797-2663.
Eagle Creek
Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives, Outdoor Recreation Products Catalog Collection (Book Collection 72, E-14, 2018)
Outdoor Products; Catalog; Eagle Peak;
Eagle Peak catalog, front cover, undated
Eagle Peak
Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives, Outdoor Recreation Products Catalog Collection (Book Collection 72, E-1, undated)
Outdoor Products; Catalog; Eagle River Nordic;
Eagle River Nordic catalog, front cover, 1981-1982
Eagle River Nordic
Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives, Outdoor Recreation Products Catalog Collection (Book Collection 72, E-2, 1981-1982)
Eagle River Nordic, Gold Selection, 1984-1985
Eagle River Nordic catalog, front cover, 1984-1985
Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives, Outdoor Recreation Products Catalog Collection (Book Collection 72, E-2, 1984-1985)
Eagle River Nordic, Roller Skis & Stuff, Spring 1985
Eagle River Nordic catalog, front cover, 1985
Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives, Outdoor Recreation Products Catalog Collection (Book Collection 72, E-2, 1985)
Eagle River Nordic, Marathon Race Issue, Pre-Birkie, 1983
Eagle River Nordic catalog, front cover, 1983
Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives, Outdoor Recreation Products Catalog Collection (Book Collection 72, E-2, 1983)
Eagle River Nordic, Marathon Race Issue, undated
Eagle River Nordic catalog, front cover, undated
Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives, Outdoor Recreation Products Catalog Collection (Book Collection 72, E-2, undated)
Outdoor Product; Catalog; Eagle River Nordic
Eagle River Nordic catalog, front cover, 1980
Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives, Outdoor Recreation Products Catalog Collection (Book Collection 72, E-02, 1980)
Female American
Early American Imprints
Engraving of Unca Eliza Winkfield, narrator of The Female American.
Pages 192-202 of A Serious Proposal to the Ladies by Mary Astell
1700s; Mary Astell
Early English Books Online
Pages 110-114 of A Serious Proposal to the Ladies by Mary Astell
Early Winters, All New 1979 Catalog, Unique Outdoor Equipment
Outdoor Products; Catalog; Early Winters;
Early Winters catalog, front cover, 1979
Early Winters
Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives, Outdoor Products Catalogs (Book Collection 72, E-3, 1979)
Early Winters catalog, front cover, 1975
Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives, Outdoor Recreation Products Catalog Collection (Book Collection 72, E-3, 1975)
Early Winters catalog, front cover, 1977-1978
Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives, Outdoor Recreation Products Catalog Collection (Book Collection 72, E-3, 1977-1978)
Early Winters catalog, front cover, 1977
Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives, Outdoor Recreation Products Catalog Collection (Book Collection 72, E-3, 1977)
Early Winters catalog, front cover, 1978
Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives, Outdoor Recreation Products Catalog Collection (Book Collection 72, E-3, 1978)
Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives, Outdoor Recreation Products Catalog Collection (Book Collection 72, E-3, 1979)
Early Winters catalog, front cover, 1980
Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives, Outdoor Recreation Products Catalog Collection (Book Collection 72, E-3, 1980)
Early Winters catalog, front cover, 1981
Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives, Outdoor Recreation Products Catalog Collection (Book Collection 72, E-3, 1981)
Early Winters catalog, front cover, 1982
Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives, Outdoor Recreation Products Catalog Collection (Book Collection 72, E-3, 1982)
Early Winters, 10th Anniversary Catalog, 1982
Early Winters catalog, front cover, Fall/Winter 1983
Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives, Outdoor Recreation Products Catalog Collection (Book Collection 72, E-3, 1983)
Early Winters catalog, front cover, 1983
Early Winters catalog, front cover, Summer 1983
Early Winters, Unique Outdoor Equipment, 1983
Early Winters catalog, front cover, Fall 1984
Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives, Outdoor Recreation Products Catalog Collection (Book Collection 72, E-3, 1984)
Early Winters catalog, front cover, Fall/Winter 1984
Early Winters catalog, front cover, Fall/Winter 1985
Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives, Outdoor Recreation Products Catalog Collection (Book Collection 72, E-3, 1985)
Early Winters catalog, front cover, 1986
Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives, Outdoor Recreation Products Catalog Collection (Book Collection 72, E-3, 1986)
Early Winters catalog, front cover, 1987
Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives, Outdoor Recreation Products Catalog Collection (Book Collection 72, E-3, 1987)
Early Winters catalog, front cover, 1988
Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives, Outdoor Recreation Products Catalog Collection (Book Collection 72, E-3, 1988)