A. DeVar Shumway, Blanding, UT, tape 2: Uranium Oral Histories
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| Title | A. DeVar Shumway, Blanding, UT, tape 2: Uranium Oral Histories |
| Description | Shumway, a mine owner and prospector, was interviewed by Clare Engle in Orchard Mesa, Colorado, and Kathy Biel in Blanding, Utah. Subjects: early mining days, government agencies, horses in the mines, World War II and the atomic bomb, competing with Union Carbide, Red Canyon, innacurate assays and other dishonest practices, boom years, "black box" incident, future of the Colorado Pleateau, clean-up contractors, Navajos as miners, Navajos and Whites working together, dependability of Navajos, superstitions, future of mining on the reservation. Tape #7. |
| Creator | Shumway, A. D. |
| Contributor | Biel, Kathy |
| Date | 1970-07-28 |
| Subject | Shumway, A. D.--Interviews; Uranium miners--Utah--Interviews; Navajo Indian Reservation--Industries |
| Collection Number and Name | A0343 Uranium Oral History |
| Collection Name | Uranium Oral Histories |
| Holding Institution | Multimedia Archive, Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Genre | open reel audiotape |
| Type | Sound |
| Format | audio/mpeg |
| Extent | 0:38:30 |
| Rights |  |
| Finding Aid | https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv377489 |
| ARK | ark:/87278/s6p0g2v9 |
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| Setname | uum_avacr |
| ID | 2520561 |
| Reference URL | https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6p0g2v9 |