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Article: THE LEGACY OF BOOMS AND BUSTS VINTAGE COLORADO: FORTUNES CHASED, DREAMS DASHED.(Special Pullouts)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
- Article date:
- October 3, 1999
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Byline: Mike Anton News Staff Writer
CORTEZ -- This is hard country, full of holes. Holes into which countless men poured their dreams of striking it rich. Holes in which they discovered that breaking your back for a day's pay got you just that, nothing less.
But maybe something more.
``My husband was thrilled to be a uranium miner. Thrilled to be getting $2 a day,'' Kathryn Hughes says, waving two fingers twisted at odd angles by arthritis. ``Perry, my first husband, that is.''
Hughes is 88, broke and broken down, living in a subsidized apartment in Cortez full of yard-sale furniture. She has had four husbands. The first three - ...
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