Word: utah
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Salt Lake City, Utah...
...West's 20th century uranium rush, only one prospector thus far has been dry-gulched in 19th century fashion. He was Leroy Albert Wilson, a brawling, bullying Utah claim-jumper, whose body was found near the Kanab uranium strike with six .45 bullet holes in the head and back and a Geiger counter still clicking in his hand (TIME, May 31). The sheriff promptly arrested Wilson's prospecting partner: Tom Holland, 49, a jovial, six-foot settler, who had driven off with Wilson the day of the murder, but came back alone. He claimed that he had dropped...
...Businessman Pick went about prospecting in a businesslike way. He went to the local office of the Atomic Energy Commission, asked a mining engineer named Charles A. Rasor where he should hunt. Rasor walked to a map on the wall and drew a circle around an area near Hanksville, Utah, an isolated town of some 80 people, with no electric light or telephone, near Muddy Creek, a tributary of the Colorado. Said Rasor: "If I were going prospecting, that's where...
Pick bought some camping equipment, a rock pick and a Scintillometer ("sort of a fancy Geiger counter"), spent the next few months trudging around the Colorado and Utah countryside picking up tips from old hands at the game. Finally, with his funds running low, he set off for the remote southeastern Utah site that Rasor had marked on the map. The country was so rugged that Pick had to leave his panel truck, walk in the last 25 miles. As he followed Muddy Creek into a stark and jagged canyon, he had to ford the.stream 21 times in six miles...
...started life in Utah, where his father managed a copper mine before it was sold and he decided to move to California and go into chicken ranching. The elder Rowe soon found this too hazardous a business, so he invented a speedwriting system called Rowe Vowel Shorthand and opened a business school in Michigan. When this venture also failed, the family moved to San Francisco and Guy got a job peddling newspapers. After the 1906 earthquake, the Rowes headed for Detroit, where Guy went to work in the railroad station smashing baggage at $2 a week...