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1. Eugene Parsons, "Mines of Colorado," The Trail, 18 (July 1926): 15.

2. Ibid., p. 13., Jack Hurley Smith, "The Economic Impact of the Development of the Upper Colorado River Basin in Colorado," (M.A. Thesis, University of Colorado, Boulder, 1949), pp. 41-42., hereafter cited: Smith, "Colorado River."

3. Robert L. Brown, Holy Cross—The Mountain and the City, (Caldwell, ID.: The Caxton Printers, Ltd., 1970), p. 140., hereafter cited: Brown, Holy Cross.

4. Report on the Linn Placer Diggings, District Archaeologist Files, Grand Junction District Office, Bureau of Land Management.

5. Edward T. Taylor Papers, Scrapbook 13, Western History Collections, Norlin Library, University of Colorado, Boulder., hereafter cited: Taylor Scrapbook, NLWH.

6. Taylor Scrapbook 17, NLWH.

7. Charles W. Henderson, Mining in Colorado, A History of Discovery, Development and Production, (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1926), p. 47., hereafter cited: Henderson, Colorado Mining.

8. Smith, "Colorado River," p. 28.

9. Ibid., p. 135.

10. Ibid., p. 28.

11. Brown, Holy Cross, p. 112.

12. Smith, "Colorado River," p. 66.

13. Emily Marie Ottens, "An Economic Analysis of the Resources and Development Potential for Moffat, Rio Blanco and Routt Counties in Northwestern Colorado," (M.A. Thesis, University of Colorado, Boulder, 1957), p. 151., hereafter cited: Ottens, "Economic Analysis"., and Henry E. Bender, Jr., Uintah Railway, The Gilsonite Route, (Berkeley, CA.: Howell-North Books, 1970), pp. 199-205., hereafter cited: Bender, Uintah.

14. H. Lee Scamehorn, Pioneer Steelmaker in the West, The Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, 1872-1903, (Boulder: Pruett Press, 1976), pp. 169-170.

15. Mary Rait, "Development of Grand Junction and the Colorado River Valley to Palisade from 1881 to 1931," (M.A. Thesis, University of Colorado, Boulder, 1931), pp. 145-146., hereafter cited: Rait, "Development, Grand Junction."

16. William McGinley Interview, CWA, CSHS.

17. KMGH-TV 10:00 p.m. News, Denver, CO., 14 January 1980.

18. Marvin J. Gavin, Oil Shale; An Historical, Technical and Economic Study, (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1924), pp. 2-4., hereafter cited: Gavin, Oil Shale.

19. Alice Wright, "Garmesa: An Ambitious Agricultural Experiment That failed," Colorado West of the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel, 13 May 1974.

20. Reading Club of Rifle, Colorado, comp., Rifle Shots, The Story of Rifle Colorado, (Rifle, CO.: Reading Club of Rifle, Colorado, 1973), p. 218., hereafter cited: Rifle, Shots.

21. Merton Nolen Bergner, "The Development of Fruita and the Lower Valley of the Colorado River From 1884 to 1937," (M.A. Thesis, University of Colorado, Boulder, 1937), p. 82., hereafter cited: Bergner, "Fruita"., and Gavin, Oil Shale, p. 3.

22. The Fruita Times, 15 October 1959.

23. Chris Wells, The Elusive Bonanza, The Story of Oil Shale—America's Richest and Most Neglected Resource, (New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, Inc., 1970), p. 106., hereafter cited: Wells, Bonanza.

24. Erlene Durrant Murray, Lest We Forget: A Short History of Early Grand Valley, Colorado, Originally Called Parachute, Colorado, (Grand Junction: Quahada, Inc., 1973), p. 55., hereafter cited: Murray, Lest Forget.

25. Rifle, Shots, p. 256.

26. Kathleen Bruyn, Uranium Country, (Boulder: University of Colorado Press, 1955), pp. 31-32., hereafter cited: Bruyn, Uranium.

27. Richard P. Fischer, Vanadium-Uranium Deposits of the Rifle Creek Area, Garfield County, Colorado, (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1960), p. 20., hereafter cited: Fischer, Vanadium.

28. Bruyn, Uranium, pp. 30-33.

29. Fischer, Vanadium, p. 20.

30. Ibid., p. 21.

31. Ibid., p. 20.

32. Raymond W. Taylor and Samuel W. Taylor, Uranium Fever or No Talk Under $1 Million (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1970), pp. 82-84., hereafter cited: Taylor, Fever.

33. Taylor Scrapbooks 13 and 17, NLWH.

34. Fischer, Vanadium, p. 21.

35. Ibid., and Rifle, Shots, pp. 220 and 224.

36. Fischer, Vanadium, p. 21.

37. Ibid., p. 5., and Rifle, Shots, pp. 224-225.

38. Taylor, Fever, pp. 80 and 85.

39. Ibid., pp. 78-85.

40. Ibid., p. 2., and Bruyn, Uranium, p. 123.

41. Taylor, Fever, pp. 78-80 and 100.

42. Ibid., pp. 30, 32, 84 and 252.

43. Ibid., p. 100.

44. Ibid., p. 6., and Jeanette LeBeau Interview, CNM.

45. George Gibbons Hayes, Getting Down to Bedrock, (Cedar Rapids, IA.: The Premier Press, 1960), pp. 29, 182., hereafter cited: Hayes, Bedrock.

46. Taylor, Fever, p. 19.

47. Ibid., pp. 51-53.

48. Hayes, Bedrock, pp. 28-30.

49. Taylor, Fever, pp. 10, 130 and 321.

50. Ibid., pp. 3, 150-156.

51. Ibid., pp. 86-87.

52. Ibid., p. 10.

53. Ibid., p. 100.

54. Ibid., p. 130.

55. Ibid.

56. Ibid., pp. x and 103.

57. Robert E. Struthers, The Role of Irrigation Development in Community Economic Structure, Grand Valley Trade Area, Colorado, (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1963), p. 10., hereafter cited: Struthers, Irrigation Development.

58. Taylor, Fever, pp. 103-104 and 312.

59. No Author, What's New in Grand Junction, Colorado?, (Grand Junction: Chamber of Commerce, n.d.), p. 1., hereafter cited: No Author, What's New.

60. Dean E. Winchester, Oil Shale of the Rocky Mountain Region, (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1923), p. 7., hereafter cited: Winchester, Rocky Mountain Oil.

61. E. G. Woodruff and David T. Day, Oil Shale of Northwestern Colorado and Northeastern Utah, (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1914), pp. 2-3., hereafter cited: Woodruff and Day, Oil Shale.

62. Ibid., p. 2.

63. No Author, Grand Valley, Colorado, A Plan for the Development of the Grand Valley of the Colorado River, (Ithaca, New York: Cornell University, 1958), p. 8., hereafter cited: No Author, A Plan.

64. Winchester, Rocky Mountain Oil, pp. 18, 33-34., and Gavin, Oil Shale, p. 21.

65. Woodruff and Day, Oil Shale, p. 2.

66. Harry K. Savage, The Rock That Burns, (Boulder: Pruett Press, 1967), p. 42., hereafter cited: Savage, Burns.

67. Gavin, Oil Shale, p. 50.

68. Dean E. Winchester, Oil Shale in Northwestern Colorado and Adjacent Areas, (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1916), p. 141., hereafter cited: Winchester, Oil Shale.

69. Gavin, Oil Shale, pp. 16 and 54.

70. Winchester, Oil Shale, p. 141.

71. Gavin, Oil Shale, pp. 97-98., and J. H. East and E. D. Gardner, Oil Shale Mining, Rifle, Colorado, 1944-1956., (Washington, D.C.: Department of the Interior, 1964), p. 4., hereafter cited: East and Gardner, Rifle Oil.

72. Savage, Burns, p. xi., and Murray, Lest Forget, p. 141.

73. Savage, Burns, p. xi., and Murray, Lest Forget, p. 141.

74. Winchester, Rocky Mountain Oil, p. 72.

75. Murray, Lest Forget, pp. 141-143.

76. Ibid., pp. 142-143.

77. Winchester, Oil Shale, p. 140.

78. Savage, Burns, p. 4.

79. Murray, Lest Forget, p. 144, and Rifle, Shots, p. 216.

80. Savage, Burns, p. 3., and Winchester, Oil Shale, p. 139.

81. Murray, Lest Forget, pp. 142-143.

82. Wells, Bonanza, pp. 27-28.

83. Gavin, Oil Shale, forward., and Winchester, Rocky Mountain Oil, p. 76.

84. Wells, Bonanza, p. 89.

85. Murray, Lest Forget, p. 143.

86. Gavin, Oil Shale, p. 98.

87. Ibid., p. 98., and Savage, Burns, pp. 5 and 41., and Horace F. Lunt, James Dalrymple and James Duce, The Oil Shales of Northwestern Colorado, (Denver: Colorado Bureau of Mines, 1919), pp. 7-8., hereafter cited: Lunt, Dalrymple and Duce, Oil Shale.

88. Savage, Burns, p. 23., and Murray, Lest Forget, p. 144.

89. Gavin, Oil Shale, pp. 21-22., and Winchester, Rocky Mountain Oil, pp. 72-74 and 142., and Savage, Burns, p. 41., and Lunt, Dalrymple and Duce, Oil Shale, p. 20.

90. Gavin, Oil Shale., and Savage, Burns, p. 2.

91. Murray, Lest Forget, p. 135.

92. Savage, Burns, p. 33.

93. Gavin, Oil Shale, pp. 6-8.

94. Ibid., p. 3.

95. Rifle, Shots, p. 216.

96. Savage, Burns, pp. 25, 44-45.

97. Wells, Bonanza, p. 29.

98. Savage, Burns, p. xii.

99. Alphonse Meyers Interview, CWA, CSHS.

100. Winchester, Rocky Mountain Oil, p. 72.

101. Gavin, Oil Shale, pp. 108-109., and Savage, Burns, pp. 4-6.

102. Savage, Burns, pp. 6-7, 8-15 and 19.

103. Rocky Mountain News, 3 June 1980.

104. Savage, Burns, pp. 36-37.

105. East and Gardner, Rifle Oil, p. 5.

106. Angus McDonald, Shale Oil: An Environmental Critique, (Washington, D.C.: Center For Science in the Public Interest, 1974), p. 3., hereafter cited: McDonald, Oil Environmental.

107. Ibid., p. 4., and East and Gardner, Rifle Oil, p. 1.

108. McDonald, Oil Environmental, pp. 4-5., and Wells, Bonanza, pp. 90-92.

109. Wells, Bonanza, p. 93.

110. McDonald, Oil Environmental, p. 4.

111. Wells, Bonanza, pp. 107-117 and 121.

112. Ibid., p. 31.

113. Ibid., pp. 30-31., and No Author, A Plan, see entire work.

114. Wells, Bonanza, pp. 96-97, 100, 107.

115. Ibid., p. 107., and McDonald, Oil Environmental, p. 4.

116. No Author, An Environmental Impact Analysis For A Shale Oil Complex at Parachute Creek, Colorado, 3 vols., Bureau of Land Management, 1974, vol. III, pp. 3-4.

117. McDonald, Environmental Oil, pp. vi, 11-12 and 60.

118. Ibid., p. vi.

119. The Denver Post, 16 March 1980.

120. Struthers, Irrigation Development, p. 6.