Tea, Roy
Biographical notes:
Roy Tea was born and raised in the Salt Lake Valley, Utah. He was the youngest of thirteen children. After graduating high school he enlisted in the army and spent a year in Japan. He then attended Brigham Young University and received a B.S. in geology. He earned his professional engineer license while working at the Utah State Department of Transportation. He worked on highways as a materials engineer for 35 years. While working on the Interstate 80 route he came upon the Hastings/Donner-Reed Trail and became fascinated. Since then he has spent much of his free time locating and marking the trail. He is currently retired and is a part of the Oregon-California Trails Association, Utah Crossroads Chapter and the Lincoln Highway Association.
See also: http://www.utahcrossroads.org/RTFrames.htm
From the guide to the Roy Tea papers, circa 1958-2009, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections)
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Subjects:
- Engineering
- Immigration and American Expansion
- Maps
- Material Types
- Overland journeys to the Pacific
- Overland Journeys to the Western United States
