Earl Holding
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Robert Earl Holding (born 1927) is the owner of Sinclair Oil, the Grand America Hotel, the Westgate Hotel, Little America Hotels, and two ski resorts, Sun Valley in central Idaho, and Snowbasin near Ogden, Utah.
R. Earl Holding was born and raised in Salt Lake City, Utah and earned a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from the University of Utah. His parents were apartment caretakers.
Holding also owns 400,000 acres of working cattle ranch land in northern Wyoming and southern Montana.
[edit] External Links
- Forbes 400 list - 2006 - #59 - Robert Earl Holding
- Deseret News.com - 2003
- Idaho Mtn Express - Feb 2000 - series on Earl Holding, originally from the Salt Lake Tribune
- Idaho Mtn Express - 25-Jan-2006 - Valley pays tribute to Earl Holding