Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives
Lisa Godfrey thesis papers
UUS_COLL MSS 276
7 boxes
2.75 linear feet
1910-1991
This collection contains the notes, photos, drafts, and research gathered in preparation for former USU student Lisa Godfrey's MA thesis, "Mining the Colorado Plateau: The Story of Calamity Mesa 1910-1970." The thesis is an examination of a mining community in southwestern Colorado and was prepared as part of an application to designate the area as a national historic site.
Collection materials are in English.
Open to public research.
It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain any necessary copyright clearances.
Permission to publish material from the Lisa Godfrey thesis papers must be obtained from the Special Collections and Archives manuscript curator and/or the Special Collections and Archives department head.
These papers were donated to Special Collections and Archives following the completion of Lisa Godfrey's USU MA thesis in history in 1991 by Dr. Ross Peterson, who was the major advisor for this project. Partial funding for this project came from the Bureau of Land Management. Research support also came from the Museum of Western Colorado, located in Grand Junction. As a result of this support, both the BLM office in Denver and the museum in Grand Junction also have copies of Ms. Godfrey's interviews and transcripts of them. Their holdings, however, do not necessarily exactly duplicate what is housed in this collection.
Collection Processed by: Stephen C. Sturgeon, April 2003.
Lisa Godfrey thesis papers, 1900-1970, 1990-1991. (COLL MSS 276). Utah State University. Special Collections and Archives Department.
These papers consist of notes, photos, drafts and research gathered in preparation for Lisa Godfrey's thesis, "Mining the Colorado Plateau: The Story of Calamity Mesa 1910-1970." The thesis is an examination of a mining community in southwestern Colorado, and it was prepared as part of an application to designate the area as a national historic site. Copies of the thesis are available on microform, both in Special Collections and Archives and in the USU library's microform area.
The first four boxes contain research files and drafts of the thesis. Boxes 6 and 7 are interviews on cassette tapes. The last box holds tapes, notepads and slides of Colorado.
Calamity Mesa (Colo.)--History.
Colorado Plateau--History.
Mines and mineral resources--Colorado--History.
Mines and Mineral Resources
Research, Correspondence and Thesis Copies
Mining the Colorado Plateau: The Story of Calamity Mesa 1910-1970" Thesis by Lisa Pitcher Godfrey [marked copy-bound]
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Mining the Colorado Plateau: The Story of Calamity Mesa 1910-1970" Thesis by Lisa Pitcher Godfrey [clean copy-bound]
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Mining the Colorado Plateau: The Story of Calamity Mesa 1910-1970" Thesis by Lisa Pitcher Godfrey [clean loose copy]
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Correspondence: letters sent
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Acknowledgments for Thesis, form
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Umetco Production Records for Calamity Group Mines
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Articles on Health and Mining Issues
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Gateway High School Year Book
1964-1965
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BLM Maps
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Photos from Floriene Rait
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Information from Dr. Geno Saccamanno, St. Mary's Hospital - Radon
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Newspaper Articles - Howard Balsley
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Photocopies from museum newspapers: Newspapers. Photos. Pamphlets Book Nuggets by Glenn Berry
1982
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Thesis Files, Research and Drafts
Prospecting for Uranium Handbook
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Journal Articles: Journal of Western Slope/ Business on Wheels
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Journal of the West "History's Greatest Metal Hunt" The Uranium Boom on the Colorado Plateau
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Life Magazine 1953 "History's Greatest Metal Hunt"
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Mesa Miracle - Union Carbide and Carbon Corporation
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Mining Yearbook
1954
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U3O8 Formula for Profits
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Reports by William L. Chenoweth
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USAEC Division of Raw Materials (RMO-1000 A) Interim Staff Report
1951 June
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(RMO 465 B) Union Mines Development Corporation - Report on Calamity District
1944
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Various Reports from W. L. Chenoweth
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AEC Circulars
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Background Information, Grand Junction Office USAEC
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Summary and Chronology of the Domestic Uranium Program
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Bureau of Mines - Information Circular "Uranium Mining Methods and Costs at Several Mines..."
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Mineral Resources Survey of Mesa County
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"A Formal History of the USGS Colorado Plateau Project" William Chenoweth
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Summary History of Domestic Uranium Procurement under USAEC Contracts
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Information supplied by Anthony Mastrovich
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Radium, Uranium, and Vanadium Deposits of Southwestern Colorado by R. C. Coffin USAEC 1921 - Colorado Geological Survey - Bulletin 16 E
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Notes from daily newspapers
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Bureau of Mines Yearbook Notes
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Mesa County Court House Claim, Records
1913-1948
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Thesis - Copy - Edited by Dave Lewis
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Thesis - Copy - Edited by Tom Lyon
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Rough Draft
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Revised Copy
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Revised Copy
1991 March 6
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Draft
1991 March 10
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Outline: Thesis
1990 November
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Original Maps
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Sources
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Notes
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BLM Field Evaluation, Calamity Camp Historic Site, Mesa County, Colorado
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Photos
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Oversize map of Uravan Mineral Belt, Southeastern Utah and Southwestern Colorado
1976
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Release Forms, Transcripts, and Notes
Researchers should consult permission forms concerning reproduction and quotation rights.
Completed Release Forms
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Nellie Barlow
1990 July 6
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Walter Casto
1990 August 6
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Bill Chenoweth
1990 August 6
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Lee Clark
1990 July 3
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Richard P. Fischer
1990 July 10
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6
John Honstein
1990 August 7
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Tony Mastrovich
1990 July 5
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Carol McManus
1990 August 8
4
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Floriene Rait
1990 July 5
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10
Al Rinderle
1990 July 11
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Linda Sterry
1990 August 29
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12
Sherm Waggner
1990 July 11
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Dorothy Wagner and Susan W. Alexander
1990 August 7
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Frank Woodard
1990 July 6
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Ben Zimmerman
1990 July 10
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Group 2 interviews, not granted permission: Glen Berry, Don Hill and Eva Spencer
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Notes
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Interviews on Tapes
Lee Clark
Tape 1
1990 July 3
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Tony Mastrovich
Tape 2
1990 July 5
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Floriene Rait
Tape 3
1990 July 5
5
Frank Woodard
Tape 4
1990 July 6
5
Tony Mastrovick/ Frank Woodard
Tape 5
1990 July 6
(2 copies)
5
Nellie Barlow
Tape 6
1990 July 6
5
Dr. Geno Saccamanno
Tape 7
1990 July 9
5
Verne Bishop
Tape 8
1990 July 10
(2 copies)
5
Ben Zimmerman
Tape 9
1990 July 10
5
Richard Fischer
Tape 10
1990 July 10
5
Al Rinderle
Tape 11
1990 July 11
5
Sherm Wagner
Tape 12
1990 July 11
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Glenn W. Berry
Tape 13
1990 July 11
(2 copies)
5
Bill Cohan
Tape 14
1990 August 3
5
Robert Foster
Tape 1
1990 August 6
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Robert Foster (Side 3)
Tape 2
1990 August 6
(2 copies)
6
Walter Casto
Tape 3
1990 August 6
6
Bill Chenoweth
Tape 4
1990 August 6
6
Dorothy Wagner, Susan Alexander
Tape 5
1990 August 7
6
John Honstein
Tape 6
1990 August 7
6
Bill Cohan
Tape 7
1990 August 8
6
Becky Zurek
Tape 8
1990 August 8
(2 copies)
6
Carol McManus
Tape 9
1990 August 8
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Eva Spencer, Ethel Pogue, Louise Warren
Tape 10
1990 August 9
(2 copies)
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Ethel Pogue, Louise and LorenWarren
Tape 11
1990 August 9
(2 copies)
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Don Hill
Tape 12
1990 August 29
(2 copies)
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Elton Youngberg
Tape 1
1990 August 29
(2 copies)
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Linda Sterry
Tape 2
1990 August 29
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Notecards and Slides
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A-Z Contact Information
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References
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Notes
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Chapter 1
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Chapter 2
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Chapter 3
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Chapter 4
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Misc. Notes and References Slides of Colorado
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