James H. Knights papers

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James H. Knights papers

1912-1965

https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv884505

Collection contains materials related to Knights's involvement in Bureau of Reclamation construction projects. Collection includes planning reports and specifications of several projects, most notably the Blue-South Platte River Project, the Colorado-Big Thompson Project, and the Shoshone Project's Heart Mountain Division; as well as maps and diagrams of the Heart Mountain Division and Heart Mountain Relocation Center; and his undergraduate work from the University of Wyoming. Also included are Knights's diaries from 1942-1948.

12.01 cubic ft. (26 boxes)

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Univerisity of Wyoming. American Heritage Center.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7245780

Univerisity of Wyoming. American Heritage Center.

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United States. Bureau of Reclamation

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The Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation Service) was a bureau of the Department of the Interior which oversaw water development projects in the western United States. In July of 1902, in accordance with the Reclamation Act 32 Stat. 388, approved June 17, 1902 (also known as the Newlands Act), Secretary of the Interior Ethan Allen Hitchcock established the Reclamation Service within the Geological Survey. The new Reclamation Service studied potential water development projects in each western stat...

Knights, James H., 1906-1999.

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James H. Knights, born in 1906 in Chicago, Illinois, spent over thirty years with the United States Bureau of Reclamation as a civil engineer. Knights graduated in 1929 from the University of Wyoming with a B.S. in Civil Engineering and worked on several highway and bridge construction projects from 1929-1933. Knights worked for the Bureau of Reclamation from 1933 until 1964, where he was involved in the planning, design and construction of several Bureau projects in the western United States, i...

Shoshone Project

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Heart Mountain Relocation Center (Wyo.)

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{Text of biographical or historical note, in paragraphs; separate each with paragraph tags} The Heart Mountain Relocation Center was one of ten relocation centers constructed as a result of Executive Order 9066 (EO 9066), which President Franklin Roosevelt signed into effect on February 19, 1942. The Center, located near the town of Cody in northwest Wyoming, held Japanese American internees from 1942-1945. The camp reached a maximum population of 10,767, making it the third largest settlement i...

Colorado-Big Thompson Project (U.S.)

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