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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.

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"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.

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Author

Michael A. Amundson

Publisher

University Press of Colorado

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9780870816628

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Economics, Technology