Date of Award:
5-1998
Document Type:
Thesis
Degree Name:
Master of Arts (MA)
Department:
History
Committee Chair(s)
F. Ross Peterson
Committee
F. Ross Peterson
Abstract
The thesis contains interesting and relevant information concerning the impact of the mining and milling industry on communities located within a geographically, socially, politically, and economically defined area in southwestern Colorado. This area supplied a tremendous amount of radium, vanadium, and uranium in successive eras. The author focuses primarily on Uravan, and examines the town's role in the uranium procurement program during World War II. The study of Uravan also provides information on the social structure of a company-owned community. Also examined are the ways in which government policies affected these small communities, and the impacts of the mining and milling industry upon the environment and human health.
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Recommended Citation
Hardcastle, John A., ""Halfway Between Nobody Knows Where and Somebody's Starting Point": A History of the West End of Montrose County, Colorado" (1998). All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023. 2134.
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/2134
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