Scope and Contents In 1924 Pearl and her son Gawin were in California for their health while Earl remained in Utah working at the dinosaur quarry and acting as geologist for oil and mineral companies. 10 April 1924--(Earl to Pearl) Douglass wrote that Dr. Frederick J. Pack, Department of Geology, University of Utah, informed him that they had raised the money and wished him to start work on the big Brontosaurus. Douglass mentioned oil company men, geologists, and others interested in the Uinta...

Scope and Contents Forty-three letters between Pearl, still in Montana, and Earl and Gawin living in Salt Lake City with friends. Earl was writing poetry, articles, and stories for publication hoping to earn money from these. Gawin was in school. On 2 July Pearl wrote that it had been one year that day since she went to Montana. She returned to Salt Lake City in September to find Earl on a field expedition to Texas with a friend "scouting around to see what the conditions and prospects are," in the oil...

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On 25 June Pearl left Salt Lake City for Alder, Montana, where she spent the next six months with her brother Grover and her son Gawin who helped on the farm. Letters were exchanged frequently with Earl in the Uinta Basin working on a mineralogical report for the Gilsonite Asphaltum Company. Earl spent his spare time adding to his collection of flora fossils. He was sixty-six years of age at this time.

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Correspondence between Pearl in Montana and Earl in Salt Lake City and the Uinta Basin where he continued his work for the Gilsonite Asphaltum Company. Letters from Earl to Gawin, also in Montana, concerned employment for Gawin in the Basin. Pearl wrote enthusiastically about their home in Salt Lake City which they would occupy as a family later in the year.