Tag: mining

It was the summer of 1920, and the coal fields of southeastern Kansas stood on the brink of another labor showdown. Less than a year…

In the bitter cold of a January morning in 1883, the people of Wilkes-Barre’s Five Points neighborhood were jolted awake by a sound like an…

The Cross Mountain coal mine disaster was already a scene of grief, smoke, and exhaustion when rescuers made a terrible discovery: not all of the…

In the coal regions of western Pennsylvania, danger was never far beneath the surface.  Men went underground each day into narrow passages where darkness, gas,…