Records, 1960-1996.

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Records, 1960-1996.

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Collection contains materials documenting the activities of this citizens' group's efforts to prevent nuclear testing by El Paso Natural Gas Company. Included in the collection are chronological files with newsclippings, reports and other materials (1967-1994); correspondence by the Committee with Wyoming U.S. Representative Teno Roncalio, El Paso Natural Gas, the Atomic Energy Commission and other government officials and agencies (1968-1994); subject files with newsclippings, press releases and reports on energy, nuclear testing, and the environment (1960-1993); transcripts and audio cassette interviews with Teno Roncalio and members of the Committee involved in halting the testing; and printed materials related to Project Wagon Wheel.

8.5 cubic ft. (19 boxes)

Univerisity of Wyoming. American Heritage Center.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7429663

Univerisity of Wyoming. American Heritage Center.

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Wagon Wheel Information Committee

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The Wagon Wheel Information Committee was formed in 1971 in response to the establishment of Project Wagon Wheel by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. The project would give $12 million to El Paso Natural Gas Company to conduct nuclear explosions twenty miles south of Pinedale, Sublette County, Wyoming to determine if they would lead to the production of natural gas from the Pinedale gas field. The Committee used meetings, petitions, flyers, school surveys, fund raising "blasts," straw votes and...

Roncalio, Teno, 1916-2003

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Teno Roncalio was born March 23, 1916, in Rock Springs, Wyoming. He attended the University of Wyoming from 1937-1939 then left the state to work for Wyoming U.S. Senator Joseph O'Mahoney in Washington, D.C. During that time he began law school at Catholic University of America but interrupted his studies to enlist in the U.S. Army in 1941. After World War II, Roncalio returned to Wyoming and graduated from the University of Wyoming College of Law in 1947. He practiced l...

U.S. Atomic Energy Commission

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This collection of transparencies was used by representatives of the Atomic Energy Commission (A.E.C.) during a presentation before the Alaska House State Affairs Committee, April 4, 1970, in Juneau. At the time of the presentation, the A.E.C. was planning a second underground nuclear test on Amchitka Island in 1971, code-named CANNIKIN. Testimony was heard from several groups against a second test as well as adverse testimony about the first test which took place in October, 1969 and was code n...

El Paso Natural Gas Company

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