The American businessman Robert Earl Holding is the longtime owner of Sinclair Oil, the Grand America and Westgate Hotel and Little America Hotels, and two ski resorts: Sun Valley, Idaho and Snowbasin in Ogden, Utah. Born in Salt Lake City, he was a child of the Depression who saw his family's savings wiped away, and went to work at age 12. Following service in World War II, he studied civil engineering at the University of Utah joined the Bureau of Land Reclamation. He pooled his and his wife's savings to buy a part interest in a failing hotel in Little America, Wyoming. Holding...