The author of this website is Nate Housley, M.A. candidate in US History at the University of Utah studying labor history. This website satisfies a requirement for Dr. Gregory Smoak’s Careers in Public History course. The oral histories consulted for this project come from the University of Utah’s Marriott Library collection of Carbon County oral histories, available here. Nate Housley conducted the oral history with Dr. Phil Notarriani. Special thanks to the Utah State Historical Society and to the J. Willard Marriott Library’s digital collections for many of the images. Secondary sources are listed in the bibliography below. The website was built using the Omeka platform, designed by the Corporation for Digital Scholarship. More information is available here.
Bibliography
Primary Sources
Aiello, Pete. Interview with Nancy Taniguchi. Oral history. Price, Utah, November 23, 1979.
Bruno, Gabriel. Interview with Melanie Bruno. Oral history. Spring Glen, Utah, March 25, 1972.
Campedell, Mary and Mary Romano. Interview with Mary Brandol. Oral history. Price, Utah, March 15, 1973.
Dalpaiz, Joseph. Interview with Kendra and C. Tomsic. Oral history. Helper, Utah, March 12, 1973.
Fossat, Ralph and Louis Fossat. Interview with Nancy Taniguchi. Oral history. Price, Utah, May 4, 1982.
Frugni, Tony. Interview with K. Tomsic and M. Kobe. Oral history. Carbon County, Utah, February 17, 1973.
Juliana, Mary Nicolovo. Interview with Johnson, Arriola, and Capalbo. Oral history. Carbon County, Utah, March 30, 1973.
Lupo, Mary. Interview with Falsone, Winder, and Procarione. Oral history. East Carbon City, Utah, March 21, 1972.
Notarriani, Philip. Interview with Nate Housley. Oral history. Salt Lake City, October 4, 2018
Spigarelli, Remo. Interview with Nancy Taniguchi. Oral history. Carbonville, Utah, May 5, 1982.
Tunno, Pasquale and Sophia Tunno. Interview with Melanie Bruno. Oral history. Price, Utah, March 26, 1973.
Secondary Sources
Notarriani, Philip F. “Helper—The Making of a Gentile Town in Zion.” From Carbon County: Eastern Utah’s Industrialized Island, ed. Philip F. Notarriani. Salt Lake City: Utah State Historical Society, 1981.
Notarriani, Philip F. “Italianita in Utah: The Immigrant Experience.” From The Peoples of Utah, ed. Helen Z. Papanikolas. Salt Lake City: Utah State Historical Society, 1976.
O’Neil, Floyd A. “Victims of Demand: The Vagaries of the Carbon County Coal Industry.” From Carbon County: Eastern Utah’s Industrialized Island, ed. Philip F. Notarriani. Salt Lake City: Utah State Historical Society, 1981.
Papanikolas, Helen Z. “Women in the Mining Communities of Carbon County. From Carbon County: Eastern Utah’s Industrialized Island, ed. Philip F. Notarriani. Salt Lake City: Utah State Historical Society, 1981.
Powell, Allan Kent. “Land of Three Heritages: Mormons, Immigrants, and Miners.” From Carbon County: Eastern Utah’s Industrialized Island, ed. Philip F. Notarriani. Salt Lake City: Utah State Historical Society, 1981.
Taniguchi, Nancy J. Castle Valley, America: Hard Land, Hard-Won Home. Logan: Utah State University Press, 2004.