Download or read book Stories from the Mines written by Thomas M. Currá and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the beginning of the twentieth century, hundreds of thousands of European immigrants came to northeastern Pennsylvania to work in the coal mines. Stories from the Mines chronicles the struggle of these miners to earn a decent wage, alleviate dangerous working conditions, and gain respect. The perilous work the miners performed for extremely low pay, Matkosky and Currà argue, laid the foundation for America's Industrial Revolution and the modern labor movement. This powerful book traces the miners' epic human rights battle from their arrival in the United States to the Great Strike of 1902 and the inception of the United Mine Workers. Its companion documentary, available separately on DVD, blends dramatic reenactments and never-before-seen archival footage and photographs to recount a conflict that inspired the involvement of Clarence Darrow and Theodore Roosevelt. Stories from the Mines highlights the indelible contribution to America's history made by anthracite coal and the men who mined it.
Download or read book Women in the Mines written by Marat Moore and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1996 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women in the Mines informs, provokes and inspires from first page to last with gripping stories from coalfield women from 1914 to 1994. Early women miners describe handloading coal to help their families survive. The 1970s generation talks openly about sexual harassment, community attitudes, pregnancy, health and safety, racism, aging, and unemployment. The stories demonstrate the strength and resilience of women who accepted the challenge of nontraditional work and the changes in their lives brought by that decision.
Download or read book When the Mines Closed written by Thomas Dublin and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The anthracite region of northeastern Pennsylvania, five hundred square miles of rugged hills stretching between Tower City and Carbondale, harbored coal deposits that once heated virtually all the homes and businesses in Eastern cities. At its peak during World War I, the coal industry here employed 170,000 miners, and supported almost 1,000,000 people. Today, with coal workers numbering 1,500, only 5,000 people depend on the industry for their livelihood. Between these two points in time lies a story of industrial decline, of working people facing incremental and cataclysmic changes in their world. When the Mines Closed tells this story in the words of men and women who experienced these dramatic changes and in more than eighty photographs of these individuals, their families, and the larger community.Award-winning historian Thomas Dublin interviewed a cross-section of residents and migrants from the region, who gave their own accounts of their work and family lives before and after the mines closed. Most of the narrators, six men and seven women, came of age during the Great Depression and entered area mines or, in the case of the women, garment factories, in their teens. They describe the difficult choices they faced, and the long-standing ethnic, working-class values and traditions they drew upon, when after World War II the mines began to shut down. Some left the region, others commuted to work at a distance, still others struggled to find employment locally.The photographs taken by George Harvan, a lifelong resident of the area and the son of a Slovak-born coal miner, document residents' lives over the course of fifty years. Dublin's introductory essay offers a brief history of anthracite mining and the region and establishes a broader interpretive framework for the narratives and photographs.
Download or read book Colorado Mining Stories written by Caroline Arlen and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of interviews with Colorado miners, mostly hardrock miners, working in the San Juan Mountains mining gold, silver, lead, zinc, and copper. Includes a glossary of mining terminology.
Download or read book From the Ground Up written by Colleen Whitley and published by . This book was released on 2006-09-14 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This first thorough survey of Utah's mining history provides overviews of the geology, economic history, and folklore of mining in the state; recounts the development of a selection of historically significant minerals, such as coal, salines, and uranium; and includes region-by-region histories of Utah's mining booms and busts. The essays are written by notable experts in the field, among them historians Thomas G. Alexander, Martha Sonntag Bradley-Evans, James E. Fell Jr., Laurence P. James, Brigham D. Madsen, Allen Kent Powell, W. Paul Reeve, and Raye C. Ringholz and geologists J. Wallace Gwynn and William T. Parry."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book The Story of a Mine written by Bret Harte and published by Litres. This book was released on 2021-01-18 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Stories From The Colorado Coal Mines written by George E. Ogle; Dorothy L. Ogle and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-04-25 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: STORIES FROM THE COLORADO COAL MINES is a collection of George Ogle’s books of historical fi ction. The fi rst story focuses on events surrounding the “Ludlow Massacre” (1914) and the “Columbine Massacre” (1927). The second book revisits these same events, but with another look at the tumultuous period in between, that insured a disastrous outcome. The third is a story based on Japanese immigrant workers in the early 20th century. Four young Japanese men from different backgrounds meet aboard ship on their way to work in the USA. Each man forges his own adjustment to his new environment in the midst of death and racial tensions.
Download or read book Stories from the Mines written by United Studios of America and published by University of Scranton Press. This book was released on 2006-09-01 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the beginning of the twentieth century, hundreds of thousands of European immigrants came to northeastern Pennsylvania to work in the coal mines. Stories from the Mines chronicles the struggle of these miners to earn a decent wage, alleviate dangerous working conditions, and gain respect. The perilous work the miners performed for extremely low pay, Matkosky and Currà argue, laid the foundation for America’s Industrial Revolution and the modern labor movement. This powerful DVD traces the miners’ epic human rights battle from their arrival in the United States to the Great Strike of 1902 and the inception of the United Mine Workers union. Its companion book, available separately, blends dramatic reenactments and never-before-seen archival footage and photographs to recount a conflict that inspired the involvement of Clarence Darrow and Theodore Roosevelt. Stories from the Mines highlights the indelible contribution to America’s history made by anthracite coal and the men who mined it.
Download or read book Tales of the Mine Country written by Eric McKeever and published by Eric McKeever. This book was released on 1994 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of stories about the early history of coal mining in Pennsylvania. It is ethnic (Irish & Lithuanian) & regional Pennsylvania. The stories are both amusing & serious. Some factual data is provided, but it is not a scholarly work. It covers the first century of anthracite coal mining. The stories are primarily human interest stories. One need not be of a mining background to find them interesting & amusing. Readers find the writing style very unusual. There is no sex or profanity in this book & no glorification of violence. Advance reviews have been very complimentary. "The hard dark heart of coal burns hot & lively in McKeever's words."--The United Mine Workers Journal. Also, "McKeever knows how to tell a story."--The Irish Echo. Although the writing style is simple & easy to read, very complex ideas are examined in this work. The time period covered saw the United States become the world's mightiest industrial power. This book relates the importance of coal in that development.
Download or read book Mining in the Americas written by Helmut Waszkis and published by Woodhead Publishing. This book was released on 2014-03-14 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty years of work went into the writing of this: the first book to cover the history of mines and mining in North and South America. The text is enlivened by sketches of many miners the author got to know over the decades.
Download or read book People of the Mines written by Garry Allison and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book True Stories of Real Mines Real Miners and Real People written by Harvey S. Bellm and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2011-01-19 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travel along with the author on his unbelievable journey from the Great Depression to the 21st Century. This First Edition contains over sixty short stories written from his own personal experiences which entail his younger years, snowshoeing adventures in the dead of winter, hiking, camping and fishing, logging using horses as well as his extensive experiences hard rock mining and searching for gold. Most of the stories take place in the Colorado High Country, Utah and Arizona. Any incident, any name or location of any mountain, mine or man is solid fact.
Download or read book The Story of a Mine and Other Tales written by Bret Harte and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Story of a Mine written by Bret Harte and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The story of a mine and other tales written by Bret Harte and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Story of a Mine written by HardPress and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Download or read book Openings in the Old Trail written by Bret Harte and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-08-09 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Francis Bret Harte (August 25, 1836 - May 5, 1902) was an American short story writer and poet, best remembered for his short fiction featuring miners, gamblers, and other romantic figures of the California Gold Rush. In a career spanning more than four decades, he wrote poetry, fiction, plays, lectures, book reviews, editorials, and magazine sketches in addition to fiction. As he moved from California to the eastern U.S. to Europe, he incorporated new subjects and characters into his stories, but his Gold Rush tales have been most often reprinted, adapted, and admired.
