Yellowcake Towns: Uranium Mining Communities in the American West

List of Illustrations

Maps 1. Major Uranium Mills in the American West, 1942–Present xiii 2. Yellowcake Towns xiv Photographs 1.1 Joe Junior Camp #1 looking south, 1919 3 1.2 Uravan looking south, 1936 6 2.1 Uranium Rush board game 18 2.2 Mill dignitaries with drums of yellowcake 27 2.3 Dr. C. W. Jeffrey and Bob Adams at Jeffrey City, Wyoming, 31 September 1957 3.1 Dedication of the Split Rock Mill near Jeffrey City, Wyoming 46 3.2 Western Nuclear, Inc., Wyoming’s First Uranium Mill, 47 Jeffrey City, Wyoming 4.1 Uranium Jewelry sign, Moab, c. 1960s 63 4.2 Arctic Circle gives way to Geiger Counters, c. 1950s 64 4.3 Moab, Utah, Uranium Center of America 65 4.4 Hidden Splendor Ore Arrives at URECO Mill, c. 1960 66 4.5 Aerial view of Moab’s West Side after the first uranium boom 68 5.1 Miss Atomic Energy receives her prize, a truckload 84 of uranium ore 5.2 Quivira Mill, Ambrosia Lake, New Mexico 87 5.3 Uranium Cafe, Grants, New Mexico 94 7.1 Jay’s Liquors Welcomes You to Uranium Country 122 9.1 View of Uravan looking northwest, 1978 150 9.2 Jeffrey City during more prosperous times, c. 1979 154 9.3 Signs at Atlas Mill, Moab, Utah 162 9.4 Grants Mining Museum and Chamber of Commerce 166 10.1 Radiation sign at Uravan Recreation Hall, 2001 177 Illustrations ...