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Lisa Godfrey thesis papers, 1910-1970, 1990-1991
Overview of the Collection
- Creator
- Godfrey, Lisa Pitcher
- Title
- Lisa Godfrey thesis papers
- Dates
- 1910-1970, 1990-1991 (inclusive)19101991
- Quantity
- 7 boxes, (2.75 linear ft.)
- Collection Number
- UUS_COLL MSS 276
- Summary
- This collection contains the notes, photos, drafts, and research gathered in preparation for former USU student Lisa Godfrey's M.A. 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.
- Repository
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Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections and Archives Division
Special Collections & Archives
Merrill-Cazier Library
Utah State University
Logan, UT
84322-3000
Telephone: 4357978248
Fax: 4357972880
scweb@usu.edu - Access Restrictions
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Restrictions
Open to public research.
- Languages
- English.
- Sponsor
- Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grant, 2007-2008
Biographical NoteReturn to Top
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Content DescriptionReturn to Top
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 was prepared as part of an application to designate the area as a national historic site. Copies of the thesis are available on micro-form, both in Special Collections and in the USU library's micro-form 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.
Use of the CollectionReturn to Top
Restrictions on Use
CopyrightIt is the responsibility of the user to obtain permission to publish from the owner of the copyright (the institution, the creator of the record, the author or his/her transferees, heirs, legates, or literary executors). The user agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the Utah State University Libraries, its officers, employees, and agents from and against all claims made by any person asserting that he or she is an owner of copyright.
Permission to publish material from the Lisa Godfrey thesis papers must be obtained from the Special Collections Manuscript Curator and/or the Special Collections Department Head.
Preferred Citation
Lisa Godfrey thesis papers, 1900-1970, 1990-1991. (COLL MSS 276). Utah State University. Special Collections and Archives Department.
Administrative InformationReturn to Top
Acquisition Information
These papers were donated to Special Collections 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.
Processing Note
Collection Processed by: Stephen C. Sturgeon, April 2003
Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top
Research, Correspondence and Thesis CopiesReturn to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
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Box | Folder | ||
1 | 1 | Mining the Colorado Plateau: The Story of Calamity Mesa 1910-1970" Thesis by Lisa Pitcher Godfrey [marked copy-bound] |
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1 | 2 | Mining the Colorado Plateau: The Story of Calamity Mesa 1910-1970" Thesis by Lisa Pitcher Godfrey [clean copy-bound] |
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1 | 3 | Mining the Colorado Plateau: The Story of Calamity Mesa 1910-1970" Thesis by Lisa Pitcher Godfrey [clean loose copy] |
undated |
1 | 4 | Correspondence: letters sent |
undated |
1 | 5 | Acknowledgments for Thesis, form |
undated |
1 | 6 | Umetco Production Records for Calamity Group Mines |
undated |
1 | 7 | Articles on Health and Mining Issues |
undated |
1 | 8 | Gateway High School Year Book |
1964-1965 |
1 | 9 | BLM Maps |
undated |
1 | 10 | Photos from Floriene Rait |
undated |
1 | 11 | Information from Dr. Geno Saccamanno, St. Mary's Hospital - Radon |
undated |
1 | 12 | Newspaper Articles - Howard Balsley |
undated |
1 | 13 | Photocopies from museum newspapers: Newspapers. Photos. Pamphlets Book Nuggets by Glenn Berry |
1982 |
Thesis Files, Research and DraftsReturn to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
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Box | Folder | ||
2 | 1 | Prospecting for Uranium Handbook |
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2 | 2 | Journal Articles: Journal of Western Slope/ Business on Wheels |
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2 | 3 | Journal of the West "History's Greatest Metal Hunt" The Uranium Boom on the Colorado Plateau |
undated |
2 | 4 | Life Magazine 1953 "History's Greatest Metal Hunt" |
undated |
2 | 5 | Mesa Miracle - Union Carbide and Carbon Corporation |
undated |
2 | 6 | Mining Yearbook |
1954 |
2 | 7 | U3O8 Formula for Profits |
undated |
2 | 8 | Reports by William L. Chenoweth |
undated |
2 | 9 | USAEC Division of Raw Materials (RMO-1000 A) Interim Staff Report |
1951 June |
2 | 10 | (RMO 465 B) Union Mines Development Corporation - Report on Calamity District |
1944 |
2 | 11 | Various Reports from W. L. Chenoweth |
undated |
2 | 12 | AEC Circulars |
undated |
2 | 13 | Background Information, Grand Junction Office USAEC |
undated |
2 | 14 | Summary and Chronology of the Domestic Uranium Program |
undated |
2 | 15 | Bureau of Mines - Information Circular "Uranium Mining Methods and Costs at Several Mines..." |
undated |
2 | 16 | Mineral Resources Survey of Mesa County |
undated |
2 | 17 | "A Formal History of the USGS Colorado Plateau Project" William Chenoweth |
undated |
2 | 18 | Summary History of Domestic Uranium Procurement under USAEC Contracts |
undated |
2 | 19 | Information supplied by Anthony Mastrovich |
undated |
2 | 20 | Radium, Uranium, and Vanadium Deposits of Southwestern Colorado by R. C. Coffin USAEC 1921 - Colorado Geological Survey - Bulletin 16 E |
undated |
2 | 21 | Notes from daily newspapers |
undated |
2 | 22 | Bureau of Mines Yearbook Notes |
undated |
2 | 23 | Mesa County Court House Claim, Records |
1913-1948 |
3 | 1 | Thesis - Copy - Edited by Dave Lewis |
undated |
3 | 2 | Thesis - Copy - Edited by Tom Lyon |
undated |
3 | 3 | Rough Draft |
undated |
3 | 4 | Revised Copy |
undated |
3 | 5 | Revised Copy |
1991 March 6 |
3 | 6 | Draft |
1991 March 10 |
3 | 7 | Outline: Thesis |
1990 November |
3 | 8 | Original Maps |
undated |
3 | 9 | Sources |
undated |
3 | 10 | Notes |
undated |
3 | 11 | BLM Field Evaluation, Calamity Camp Historic Site, Mesa County, Colorado |
undated |
3 | 12 | Photos |
undated |
3 | 13 | Oversize map of Uravan Mineral Belt, Southeastern Utah and Southwestern Colorado |
1976 |
Release Forms, Transcripts, and NotesReturn to Top
Researchers should consult permission forms concerning reproduction and quotation rights.
Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
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Box | Folder | ||
4 | 1 | Completed Release Forms |
undated |
4 | 2 | Nellie Barlow |
1990 July 6 |
4 | 3 | Walter Casto |
1990 August 6 |
4 | 4 | Bill Chenoweth |
1990 August 6 |
4 | 5 | Lee Clark |
1990 July 3 |
4 | 6 | Richard P. Fischer |
1990 July 10 |
4 | 7 | John Honstein |
1990 August 7 |
4 | 8 | Tony Mastrovich |
1990 July 5 |
4 | 9 | Carol McManus |
1990 August 8 |
4 | 10 | Floriene Rait |
1990 July 5 |
4 | 11 | Al Rinderle |
1990 July 11 |
4 | 12 | Linda Sterry |
1990 August 29 |
4 | 13 | Sherm Waggner |
1990 July 11 |
4 | 14 | Dorothy Wagner and Susan W. Alexander |
1990 August 7 |
4 | 15 | Frank Woodard |
1990 July 6 |
4 | 16 | Ben Zimmerman |
1990 July 10 |
4 | 17 | Group 2 interviews, not granted permission: Glen Berry, Don Hill and Eva Spencer |
undated |
4 | 18 | Notes |
undated |
Interviews on TapesReturn to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
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Box | ||
5 | Tape 1: Lee Clark |
1990 July 3 |
5 | Tape 2: Tony Mastrovich |
1990 July 5 |
5 | Tape 3: Floriene Rait |
1990 July 5 |
5 | Tape 4: Frank Woodard |
1990 July 6 |
5 | Tape 5: Tony Mastrovick/ Frank Woodard
|
1990 July 6 |
5 | Tape 6: Nellie Barlow |
1990 July 6 |
5 | Tape 7: Dr. Geno Saccamanno |
1990 July 9 |
5 | Tape 8: Verne Bishop
|
1990 July 10 |
5 | Tape 9: Ben Zimmerman |
1990 July 10 |
5 | Tape 10: Richard Fischer |
1990 July 10 |
5 | Tape 11: Al Rinderle |
1990 July 11 |
5 | Tape 12: Sherm Wagner |
1990 July 11 |
5 | Tape 13: Glenn W. Berry
|
1990 July 11 |
5 | Tape 14: Bill Cohan |
1990 August 3 |
6 | Tape 1: Robert Foster |
1990 August 6 |
6 | Tape 2: Robert Foster (Side 3)
|
1990 August 6 |
6 | Tape 3: Walter Casto |
1990 August 6 |
6 | Tape 4: Bill Chenoweth |
1990 August 6 |
6 | Tape 5: Dorothy Wagner, Susan Alexander |
1990 August 7 |
6 | Tape 6: John Honstein |
1990 August 7 |
6 | Tape 7: Bill Cohan |
1990 August 8 |
6 | Tape 8: Becky Zurek
|
1990 August 8 |
6 | Tape 9: Carol McManus |
1990 August 8 |
6 | Tape 10: Eva Spencer, Ethel Pogue, Louise Warren
|
1990 August 9 |
6 | Tape 11: Ethel Pogue, Louise and LorenWarren
|
1990 August 9 |
6 | Tape 12: Don Hill
|
1990 August 29 |
7 | Tape 1: Elton Youngberg
|
1990 August 29 |
7 | Tape 2: Linda Sterry |
1990 August 29 |
Notecards and Slides, undatedReturn to Top
Description | Dates |
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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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Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- Mines and mineral resources--Colorado--History.
Geographical Names
- Calamity Mesa (Colo.)--History.
- Colorado Plateau--History.