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Mining The Colorado Plateau: The Story Of Calamity Mesa 1910-1970, Lisa Pitcher Godfrey

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

This thesis was written to outline the history of five stone houses, which have survived almost a century of mining activity. The houses are located on a barren mesa, called Calamity, in southwestern Colorado. This work was funded by the Bureau of Land Management, Department of the Interior, in order to explore the possibility of designating this site as a National Historic Site.

Men and women lived and worked on this and the surrounding mesas for most of the twentieth century. The lives of the families, the men, women, and children who lived and worked on Calamity Mesa, provided the …