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usuSCA-FOLK004_Austin and Alta Fife Fieldwork Collection

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Article from Deseret News entitled 'Bear Lake Monster'. Originally published July 27, 1968 and again May 6, 1940. Discusses the legend of the Bear Lake monster as created by Joseph C. Rich.

Rich, Joseph C.

Daughters of Utah Pioneers. Heart Throbs of the West. Salt Lake City, 1940. Vol. 2, p. 53: Bear Lake monster stories

Brief information about the Bear Lake monster giving an eel shaped description.

Knight, Flora

Information from Hector Lee, May 20, 1946, Woods Cross, Utah.

Fife, Austin E.

Interview of Arthur W. Hart (age 77). Interviewed by Hector Lee, Austin and Alta Fife on May 16, 1946 about the Bear Lake monster.

Hart, Arthur W.

A Monster Story from the Salt Lake Semi-Weekly Herald oringinally published July 14, 1877 and again January 16, 1942.

Mead, Martha

A Monster Worth While from the Improvement Era XXXII. Part of the Fife Mormon Collection.

Paul, J. H.

Landscape painting depicting the Bear Lake monster chasing swimmers.

A humorous account of the Bear Lake monster. From the Fife Mormon Collection.

Originally from the Utah Historical Society Archives about the Bear Lake Monster. Can be found in the Fife Mormon Collection Series II by Austin E. and Alta S. Fife.

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