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Clare Engle interviewed Quackenbush, secretary to the plant superintendent at Union Carbide's Uravan facility. Subjects: various jobs, schools and recreation, politics, Union Carbide, special education (19 pages).

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Kathy Biel spoke with Randall at the Black Hat and Blue Cap mining camp at LaSalle Creek, Colorado. Fern Charley interpreted. Subjects: mining experience, schooling of family, savings, royalties to tribal council, mining accidents (6 pages).

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Richard Gibbs and Greg Brolin interview Reinhardt in Grand Junction. Subjects: personal background, drilling for uranium, surveying, La Sal Mountains, uranium industry, job with Atomic Energy Commission, Beaver Mesa, job with Serro De Pasco, Charlie Steen (25 pages).

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Mitch Haddard spoke with this Salt Lake attorney in his office. Subjects: legal aspects of uranium mining, uranium market, penny stocks, court cases, health concerns of miners, Vanadium Corporation of America (34 pages).

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Redd spoke with Gary Shumway, Suzanne Simon, and Dorothy Erick at his home in Blanding, Utah. Subjects: personal background, Mormon settlement in Mexico, Indian fights, death of Charles Posey, marriage, Hideout mine, Natural Bridges, AEC bonuses, mining stock, Lily Redd (34 pages).

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Redd spoke with Gary Shumway, Suzanne Simon, and Dorothy Erick in Blanding, Utah. Subjects: family and ancestors, cattle ranching, chases, John Weatherall, problems with Indians, Mitchell and Merrick mine, John Keith, sheep on Navajo land, Bill Long, Monument One and Two claims, Posey mine, other claims, Fry Canyon, copper mining, Myron Feree, bear hunting (68 pages, 22 pages).

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Reynolds spoke with Suzanne Simon in Fry Canyon, Utah. Subjects: early mining jobs, Moab and uranium mining, Temple Mountain, Hideout mine, future of uranium (22 pages).

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John McFarlane interviewed Andrew Riddle in Grand Junction, Colorado. Subjects: Paradox Valley, the Yellow Bird and Cashin mines, the Depression and debt, burros, wild horses, radium and vanadium, ranching, the stock market crash, uranium boom, closing of the mill (35 pages).

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Richard Gibbs and Greg Brolin interviewed Ritter at the AEC compound in Grand Junction, Colorado. Subjects: Union Mines Survey, early years on the Colorado Plateau, qualifications for obtaining and AEC lease, disadvantages of an AEC lease, uranium ore purchasing policy, experience in the uranium industry (31 pages).

Scope and Contents Rogers (b. 1906) was interviewed by Suzanne Simon and Dorothy Erick in Blanding, Utah. Subjects: the Poke and Posey War of 1915, colonization of Blanding, "the ditch," homesteading, stock raising, catching Mavericks, branding, modern-day ranching, state and federal grazing policies, the "red calf" incident, John Rogers and sheep raising, prospecting and staking claims, outsiders, geologists, surveyors, placer mining on the Colorado, Lake Powell, the discovery of Rainbow Bridge, Zane Grey,...

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Scott was interviewed by Clare Engle, Greg Brolin, and Rich Gibbs at the Union Carbide office in Grand Junction, Colorado. Subjects: years with the AEC, Union Carbide subcontractors, dealings with the AEC, exploration with Union Carbide, contracts, the job today (16 pages).

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Sells, a Navajo prospector, mine owner, contractor, and the Superintendent of Water Development for the Navajo tribe, spoke with Kathy Biel in his office at Fort Defiance. Subjects: personal background, mining business, uranium on the reservation, Navajo workers, Climax Corporation, prospects for more mining (25 pages).

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Shipman was interviewed by Richard Gibbs in Grand Junction, Colorado. Subjects: professional background, opinion of the AEC, opinion on whether miners cheated on ore samples, safety specifications, AEC leases (32 pages).