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Show 7 singled out by many to have at been the its peak, to uranium boom, which, anxious prospectors to the Four Corners. from Texas graduate and In his be to proved atrb emp t last bring 10,000 Steen was a and bad held rela time that he brought time a to of severe drill for poverty. uranium, after his sold her home to support him and his mother had ailing the children to uranium country to share four with him what the to tively responsible jobs prior his wife was of Mines College to catalyst family and had made other innumerable sacrifices, Steen's drill broke, finishing his prospecting efforts. returned to his rig to have jeep, he analyzed. brought his home, the attendant partly in Geiger counter was at this point His He dollars and of his some a Capital Steen later and went on to ·the and Steen, samples next to the ore found them to be that he on Geiger counter, highly radioactive. It realized what he had found. far found uranium but be to mine. found, had problems were, however, knew he had start and samples from the When he stopped for gas return jest, put last As he came slowly, from still but being solved. needed eventually it sold his Mi Vida mine for other capital 25 to was million unwise investments which left him bankrupt. Pior to Steens' porated as Utex. sale He and his of the Mi mother Vida, owned it was incor 81 percent of |
