Shelley Sabey 2017 Pioneer Days Rodeo grand marshal.
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LYMAN — A slender a cowgirl became a slender an underground miner, the first hard rock underground woman miner in the state of Utah.
Shelley Sabey, this year’s grand marshal of the Lyman Pioneer Days rodeo, has bitten the bullet and taken on a tough job. She grew up in Heber City Utah, rodeoed in her youth and one year was tapped as a queen of the Wasatch Rodeo in Heber City, Utah, before donning her workboots and stepping underground to mine. As the first woman underground miner in Utah, a statue of Sabey is on display in the museum in Park City.
Sabey was selected as the grand marshal, because of her heritage in mining as she had two uncles who worked in the mines of Park City, according to rodeo chair Joe Hickey. Her grandfather got Sabey a job in a silver mine in Park City. Sabey’s lifestyle epitomizes this year’s rodeo theme, “Digging Up the Past,” which pays tribute to the mineral industry on Bridger Valley.
Sabey moved to the Valley 30 years ago and continued her career as an underground miner. She works as an underground miner, going deep for FMC, which is now known as Tronox. The last six years Sabey has been a long wall miner, Hickey said.
This is a picture of the statue of Shelly Sabey, the first woman hard rock underground woman miner in Utah, with a jackleg drill used to bore holes in an underground mine. COURTESY PHOTO
