This collection consists of research materials for Dial's thesis, "A Study of the Early Industrial Development in Cache Valley." It includes notes, outlines, transcripts of primary sources, newspaper clippings, typescripts from Daughters of Utah Pioneers files, and correspondence about the thesis and graduate program. There are also drafts of Dial's thesis as well as two other papers that he wrote, "The Indian and His Influence in the Early Settlement of Cache Valley" and "Chronological Survey of Activities within Cache Valley to 1884."