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Coal People: Life in Southern Colorado's Company Towns, 1890-1930
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Coal People: Life in Southern Colorado's Company Towns, 1890-1930
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Coal People: Life in Southern Colorado's Company Towns, 1890-1930
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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 experienceand the shared risks of miningmore often than not strengthened the bonds between both miners and families.
contains historic images of coal-town life culled from the collections of the Colorado Historical Society, as well as the author's own photographs of how several of these camps appear today.