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Oral History Interview with Mei T. Nakano, March 18, 1995

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Interview with Mei Nakano, a college professor, concerning her experiences as a Japanese-American internee at the Amache, Colorado, internment camp during World War II. Nakano discusses her childhood experiences with bigotry in rural Colorado, the evacuation from Los Angeles to Amache in September of 1942, camp life, her marriage in the camp, resettlement in Chicago, and the lasting impressions of the internment experience.
Date: March 18, 1995
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Nakano, Mei Takaya
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Mei Nakano, March 18, 1995 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Mei Nakano, March 18, 1995

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Mei Nakano. Nakano is a Japanese-American and was an internee at the Amache Internment Camp in Colorado. She was born in 1924 in Olathe, Colorado. She provides detail of her life growing up in Colorado and various prejudices she received from teachers and classmates. They moved to Los Angeles, California in 1935 where she graduated from high school. She provides detail of the discrimination she and her family received in California, particularly after 7 December 1941. As notices were going out to other Japanese-American families regarding evacuation, Nakano describes her family’s preparations for the inevitable. They were evacuated by the War Relocation Authority to the Santa Anita Racetrack and in 1942 transferred to the Amache Internment Camp in Colorado. She provides much detail of life in these camps. Nakano returned to California after the war.
Date: March 18, 1995
Creator: Nakano, Mei
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History

Oral History Interview with Ken W. Duncan, March 9, 1994

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Interview with Ken Duncan concerning his experiences during and after his employment in the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Duncan worked at camps in Redvale, Colorado (Company 3844) and Paradox Valley, Colorado.
Date: March 9, 1994
Creator: Gonzalez, Linda Ott & Duncan, Ken W.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Interim Report on Exploration of the Moon Mesa and Horse Mesa Areas, Mesa and Montrose Counties, Colorado (open access)

Interim Report on Exploration of the Moon Mesa and Horse Mesa Areas, Mesa and Montrose Counties, Colorado

From introduction: This report summarizes the results of diamond-drill exploration by the U. S. Geological Survey in the vicinity of Moon and Horse Mesas during the period November 14, 1950 to January 26, 1952.
Date: 1952
Creator: Stewart, John H.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Environment of Uranium Deposition in the Bull Canyon Area, Southwestern Colorado (open access)

Environment of Uranium Deposition in the Bull Canyon Area, Southwestern Colorado

Summarizing the data on the uranium-vanadium deposits of the Bull Canyon area in Montrose and San Miguel Counties, Colorado.
Date: December 1957
Creator: Dalrymple, J. W.; Dickinson, R. C. & Young, N. B.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Preliminary Reserve Statement 4, Reserve Block 5 (West Part), Club Mesa, Montrose County, Colorado (open access)

Preliminary Reserve Statement 4, Reserve Block 5 (West Part), Club Mesa, Montrose County, Colorado

Preliminary reserve statement on the drilling of ore deposits in Club Mesa, Colorado.
Date: September 1950
Creator: Trace, Robert Denny
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Fracture Pattern Study, Bull Canyon, Montrose and San Miguel Counties, Colorado (open access)

Fracture Pattern Study, Bull Canyon, Montrose and San Miguel Counties, Colorado

A study made of the joint patterns in four different formations exposed in Bull Canyon, and of favorable and unfavorable ground in the upper ore-bearing sandstone unit of the Salt Was member of the Jurassic Morrison formation.
Date: September 1957
Creator: Dalrymple, J. W.; Young, N. B. & Ulibarri, A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Remedial Action Plan and Site Design for Stabilization of the Inactive Uranium Processing Site at Naturita, Colorado. Remedial Action Selection Report, Appendix B of Attachment 2: Geology Report, Final (open access)

Remedial Action Plan and Site Design for Stabilization of the Inactive Uranium Processing Site at Naturita, Colorado. Remedial Action Selection Report, Appendix B of Attachment 2: Geology Report, Final

The uranium processing site near Naturita, Colorado, is one of 24 inactive uranium mill sites designated to be cleaned up by the US Department of Energy (DOE) under the Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978 (UMTRCA), 42 USC {section} 7901 et seq. Part of the UMTRCA requires that the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) concur with the DOE`s remedial action plan (RAP) and certify that the remedial action conducted at the site complies with the standards promulgated by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Included in the RAP is this Remedial Action Selection Report (RAS), which describes the proposed remedial action for the Naturita site. An extensive amount of data and supporting information has been generated and evaluated for this remedial action. These data and supporting information are not incorporated into this single document but are included or referenced in the supporting documents. The RAP consists of this RAS and four supporting documents or attachments. This Attachment 2, Geology Report describes the details of geologic, geomorphic, and seismic conditions at the Dry Flats disposal site.
Date: March 1994
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library