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Can I read Yellowcake Towns: Uranium Mining Communities in the American West (Mining the American West) on EtoBox?

Yellowcake Towns: Uranium Mining Communities in the American West (Mining the American West) by Michael A. Amundson is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Yellowcake Towns: Uranium Mining Communities in the American West (Mining the American West) about?

"Yellowcake Towns: Uranium Mining Communities in the American West" provides the first detailed analysis of the four mining and milling communities at the center of the twentieth century uranium booms: Moab, Utah; Grants, New Mexico; Uravan, Colorado; and Jeffrey City, Wyoming. Amundson brings these places to life with stories of local boosters who hit on uranium as their key to economic growth. Although many boasted of new refineries that provided hundreds of jobs or "Atomic Motels" and "Uranium Cafes" that epitomized their success, few realized the inherent problems of coping with major population swings, infrastructure worries, creeping federal dependency, or the health hazards of underground mines and mill tailings.

Who reads Yellowcake Towns: Uranium Mining Communities in the American West (Mining the American West)?

It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.

Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Michael A. Amundson
Publisher
University Press of Colorado
Published
2004
Language
EN
ISBN
9780870816628
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
History, Economics, Technology

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