Describes what life was like, especially for children, in coal mines and mining towns in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Describes what life was like, especially for children, in coal mines and mining towns in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

An illustrated chronicle of the growing protest movement against mountaintop removal mining (MTR) of coal in Appalachia, including essays, commentary, and oral

Four distinct anthracite coal fields encompass an area of 1,700 square miles in the northeastern portion of Pennsylvania. In the late nineteenth and early twent

A child growing up in a coal mining community finds both excitement and hard work, in a life deeply affected by the local industry.