Crabtree's Collection Old Books: Mining
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The Glace Bay Miners' Museum.
Cape Breton, NS, Canada, Breton Books, (1996). 1st ptg. VG lg sz PB. A passionate and compassionate novel set in the coal life of Cape Breton Island.
Crabtree's Collection Old BooksProfessional sellerBook number: BOOKS053011I
USD 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.75 | £UK 9 | JP¥ 1711]
Catalogue: Mining
When Coal Was King: mining Pennsylvania's anthracite.
Levanon, PA, Applied Arts Publishers, (1993). 10th ptg. VG lg sz PB. Greenback Colliery was named after a political party that came into being after the Civil War & built between 1870-1878. life. Early coal mining in picture and story in the land of the Mollie Maguires. There was constant labor trouble with members of the "Mollie Maguires". The Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Company purchased the mining firm in 1871. An underground fire on August 19, 1884 caused the death of 7 men and a 15 year old door boy lost his life below the surface, before fire was flooded with water from Shamokin Creek. The colliery was abandoned in 1886.
Crabtree's Collection Old BooksProfessional sellerBook number: BOOKS052158I
USD 14.00 [Appr.: EURO 12.5 | £UK 10.5 | JP¥ 1996]
Catalogue: Mining
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