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Title:Boomtown Blues : Colorado Oil Shale
Series:(Mining the American West Series)
Author:Andrew Gulliford
ISBN:0870817205 : 9780870817205
Illustrations:b/w photos
Format:Paperback
Size:155x230mm
Pages:316
Weight: .46 Kg.
Published:University Press of Colorado - May 2003
List Price: 17.99 Pounds Sterling
Availability:In Print
Subjects:Local history: Mining industry: Colorado


First published in 1989, 'Boomtown Blues' examines the remarkable 100-year history of oil shale development and chronicles the social, environmental, and financial havoc created by the industry’s continual cycles of boom and bust.

Introduction; Exploration and Settlement in the Valley of the Colorado; Outsiders, Insiders and Ties That bind: The First Oil Shale Book and its Aftermath; Shale Shock; Exxon and the Big Boom; From Boom to Bust: The Tiger Empties the Tank; The White Paper, Black Sunday and Corporate Responsibility in the West; Index.