How Did a Poor Geologist Become Utah’s Uranium King?
With a single uranium strike in southeastern Utah, Charlie Steen rose from broke prospector to national celebrity. The Mi Vida mine made him rich—and nearly destroyed him.
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Who made the first photographs of the American West?
Solomon Nunes Carvalho was an American artist, photographer, and explorer. He was a Sephardic Jew. Born in 1815 in Charleston, South Carolina, Solomon became known for his skills in painting and daguerreotype photography. (Daguerreotype is the earliest form of photography. It makes a direct-positive image on a silver-coated plate.) In 1853, Carvalho joined a famous…
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How did Colorado and much of the West become part of the United States?
Have you ever wondered how Colorado and much of the American West became part of the United States? Well, there was this war. The loser of the war had to agree to give up something. The loser agreed to give up a huge amount of land. That land was Colorado and a large area that…