DeVar Shumway, Blanding, Utah, Uranium History Series, Interview 2

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Title DeVar Shumway, Blanding, Utah, Uranium History Series, Interview 2
Alternative Title A. DeVar Shumway, Interview 2, Utah Uranium Oral History Project
Creator Shumway, A. D.
Contributor Biel, Kathy
Date 1970-07-28
Date Digital 2016-05-04
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Spatial Coverage Blanding, San Juan County, Utah, United States
Subject Shumway, A. D.--Interviews; Uranium miners--Utah--Interviews; Navajo Indian Reservation--Industries
Description Transcript (32 pages) of an interview by Kathy Biel with A. DeVar Shumway, on July 28, 1970. From tape number 7 in the Uranium History Series
Abstract 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 (Interview 2 of 2, 32 pages).
Type Text
Format application/pdf
Extent 74 pages, 32 pages
Language eng
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Scanning Technician Mazi Rakhsha
Conversion Specifications Original scanned with Kirtas 2400 and saved as 400 ppi uncompressed TIFF. PDF generated by Adobe Acrobat Pro X for CONTENTdm display
ARK ark:/87278/s61k1hvg
Topic Uranium miners; Navajo Indians
Genre oral histories (literary works)
Finding Aid http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv03439/
Setname uum_uoh
ID 1054199
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s61k1hvg
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