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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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Coal People: Life in Southern Colorado's Company Towns, 1890-1930

Coal People: Life in Southern Colorado's Company Towns, 1890-1930

Clyne, Rick J.

Paperback

19th Century United States HistoryGeneral United States HistoryGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0870815997
ISBN13: 9780870815997
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Published: Jun 15 2000
Pages: 136
Weight: 0.48
Height: 0.36 Width: 5.84 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
This study takes a fresh look into the lives of families living in the coal camps of southern Colorado between 1890 and the Great Depression. Historian Rick J. Clyne examines the experiences of the men, women, and children who lived and worked in these isolated, company-dominated towns. With the dangerous nature of mining coal a daily reality, the fear of death and injury was pervasive-not only for the miners venturing into the earth day after day, but for their dependents as well.

Clyne reveals that a strong sense of community and tolerance existed in the camps, into which families journeyed from such far-flung locales as eastern and southern Europe to carve out a living. The shared immigrant experience-and the shared risks of mining-more often than not strengthened the bonds between both miners and families.

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