This is the mass grave of the dead from the Speculator Mine Fire of 1917, men blown to such bits and burned to such a crisp that they could not.
This is the grave of Nathaniel Hill. Born in 1832 in Montgomery, New York, Hill grew up on a farm, but pretty well off. His older brother went to Yale,.
On November 4, 1942, copper mines in Butte, Montana went on strike to protest the use of Black miners on the job. One of far too many hate strikes during.
This is the grave of Charles Senter. There's not that much out there really on this guy, but one can extrapolate a few things. He was born in 1845 was.
On February 16, 1931, the Harlan County Coal Operators' Association reduced wages for miners in that part of eastern Kentucky by 10 percent. In response, the United Mine Workers of.
Too often, we hear something like "Either the climate is a crisis or it's not a crisis and if it's a crisis, then we have to plow ahead with a.
On December 28, 1921, the Rand Rebellion in South Africa began with a strike of white miners. Soon, it would develop into a general rebellion of workers against the state,.
Hydraulic mining, Marin County, California, 1908
