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Kathy Biel interviewed Bruce Shumway, director of Social Services Region Eight, in Blanding. Subjects: Social Service programs, Navajo children in White homes, Navajos moving off reservation, employment opportunities for Navajos, changing attitudes, problems adjusting to urban living, housing, Navajo miners (31 pages).

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Gary Shumway interviewed Dean in Provo, Utah, on 9 August and 12 August. Subjects: personal background, lifetime involvement with uranium industry, prospecting on the reservation, Monument Number Two Mine, recollections of the boom, Sandy Mine, how people spent their money, Rex claims, close calls, working for Grant [Shumway], Agathla, mining in Grants, New Mexico, reasons for leaving mining, Bob Schriever (54 pages, 67 pages).

Scope and Contents 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,...

Scope and Contents Shumway spoke with Suzanne Simon in Anaheim, California. Subjects: His father's start in Uranium mining, the Dream mine, selling early claims, restaking and later claims, other claimants in Cottonwood, class structure in Blanding, his grandfather and great-grandfather, prospecting at age three, the Hideout mine, the Redd family, prospecting before geiger counters, Elk Mountain, mining and assessment work, camp and lizards, the mill, driller's helper at age sixteen, lifestyle at the camp,...

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Glen Shumway spoke with Suzanne Simon in Blanding, Utah. Subjects: family claims, hauling devices, leases, Atomic Energy Commission, uranium market, White Canyon town (32 pages).

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Dorothy Erick interviewed Shumway, a geologist, in Blanding, Utah. Subjects: Elk Ridge mine, the bust, nuclear power plants, pollution, international market, large corporations and small miners, health and safety, future of nuclear power, geology and prospecting, geiger counter, airplanes, Navajo regulations (57 pages).

Scope and Contents Dorothy Erick and Suzanne Simon interviewed Shumway in Blanding, Utah. Subjects: family mines, Monument Two mine, Cord mine, Navajo miners and welfare, AEC bonuses, mines in the Cottonwood area, Pillard mining, shipping ore to the mills, blow sand, smelting and milling, depressed markets and the small miner, royalties on mines, the Shumway family and mining, mining equipment, government standards, discovery methods, mining as a lifestyle, hobbies and recreation, stocks and overspeculation,...

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Suzanne Simon talked with Shumway in Blanding, Utah. Subjects: mining in the 1920s, pilot mill in Big Indian Country, prospecting, lawsuits, traveling by jeep, Denny Viles, small miners (26 pages).

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Suzanne Simon interviewed Shumway in Blanding, Utah. Subjects: mining before the boom, mining accidents, Payday mine, assessment, AEC policies, uranium prices, misleading ore, White Canyon colony, Denny Vowles (31 pages).

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Shumway spoke with Suzanne Simon and Dorothy Erick in Blanding, Utah. Subjects: prospecting, location of claims, Mr. Balsely of Moab, VCA mill in Monticello, the Atomic Energy Commission, ore production processes, shinarump in White and Red Canyons, dealing with VCA, AEC bonus, greenhorn promoters in the boom, successful miners, hazards of weather and terrain (27 pages).

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Shumway spoke with Dorothy Erick in Blanding, Utah. Subjects: mining as a family business, selling claims, Ridge One group, VCA, mining accidents, dishonest chemists, the LDS influence in Blanding (43 pages).

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Gary Shumway and Suzanne Simon interviewed Seth Shumway in Blanding, Utah. Subjects: early settlement, prospecting, the Lonesome claim, trapping for the government, Happy Jack mine, Hideout claim, White Canyon claims, Fennel Sitton, Payday and Lick mines, Elk Ridge, digging ruins and selling artifacts, family pictures (35 pages).