The Mining Camps Speak

The Mining Camps Speak
Author: Beth Sagstetter
Publisher: Benchmark Publishing (Company)
Total Pages: 314
Release: 1998
Genre: History
ISBN:

A guide to appreciating and understanding the history of abandoned mining camps shows how to use the techniques of an historical sleuth to identify and interpret what one sees at a ghost town.

Harlan Miners Speak

Harlan Miners Speak
Author: Members of the National Committee for the Defense
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2021-10-21
Genre: History
ISBN: 0813185475

The Dreiser Committee, including writers Theodore Dreiser, John Dos Passos, and Sherwood Anderson, investigated the desperate situation of striking Kentucky miners in November 1931. When the Communist-led National Miners Union competed against the more conservative United Mine Workers of America for greater union membership, class resentment turned to warfare. Harlan Miners Speak, originally published in 1932, is an invaluable record that illustrates the living and working conditions of the miners during the 1930s. This edition of Harlan Miners Speak, with a new introduction by noted historian John C. Hennen, offers readers an in-depth look at a pivotal crisis in the complex history of this controversial form of energy production.

Montana Mining Ghost Towns

Montana Mining Ghost Towns
Author: Barbara Fifer
Publisher: Farcountry Press
Total Pages: 116
Release: 2002
Genre: Ghost towns
ISBN: 1560371951

Photographs-landscapes, townsites, homes, stores, mining structures.

Mining Camps

Mining Camps
Author: Charles Howard Shinn
Publisher:
Total Pages: 348
Release: 1884
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN:

Tallgrass

Tallgrass
Author: Sandra Dallas
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2007-04-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1429917172

An essential American novel from Sandra Dallas, an unparalleled writer of our history, and our deepest emotions... During World War II, a family finds life turned upside down when the government opens a Japanese internment camp in their small Colorado town. After a young girl is murdered, all eyes (and suspicions) turn to the newcomers, the interlopers, the strangers. This is Tallgrass as Rennie Stroud has never seen it before. She has just turned thirteen and, until this time, life has pretty much been what her father told her it should be: predictable and fair. But now the winds of change are coming and, with them, a shift in her perspective. And Rennie will discover secrets that can destroy even the most sacred things. Part thriller, part historical novel, Tallgrass is a riveting exploration of the darkest--and best--parts of the human heart.

We the Miners

We the Miners
Author: Andrea G. McDowell
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2022-06-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 0674248112

The California Gold Rush is thought to exemplify the Wild West, yet miners were expert organizers. Driven by property interests, they enacted mining codes, held criminal trials, and decided claim disputes. But democracy and law did not extend to “foreigners” and Indians, and miners were hesitant to yield power to the state that formed around them.

The Cliff Dwellings Speak

The Cliff Dwellings Speak
Author: Beth Sagstetter
Publisher: Benchmark Publishing (Company)
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2010-01-01
Genre: Archaeology and history
ISBN: 9780964582422

This book is intended as an introduction to Southwestern Archaeology, for casual visitors. The book will guide you around a site in Sherlock Holmes fashion, giving you very real tools for understanding cliff dwellings. The Cliff Dwellings Speak also introduces readers to the descendants of the cliff dwellers -- the Pueblo people of the Southwest who still live there today. The book is highly illustrated with black and white photographs and engravings from rare antique books. Using copious illustrations, Field Guides in some chapters show the reader what to look for, and what it might mean. The Cliff Dwellings Speak is unique and is very different from any other book regarding understanding the Greater American Southwest (views of Native American, Anasazi, ruins at Mesa Verde, Colorado; landscape images of Colorado).

Let Me Speak!

Let Me Speak!
Author: Domitila Barrios De Chungara
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2024-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 168590050X

A classic recounting of a unionists' struggle against exploitation and dictatorship—from within the mines of Bolivia Let Me Speak! is a moving testimony from inside the Bolivian tin mines of the 1970s, by a woman whose life was defined by her defiant struggle against those at the very top of the power structure, the Bolivian elite. Blending firsthand accounts with astute political analysis, Domitila Barrios de Chungara describes the hardships endured by Bolivia’s colossal working class, and her own efforts at organizing women in her mining community. The result is a gripping narrative of class struggle and repression, an important social document that illuminates the reality of capitalist exploitation in the dark mines of 1970s Bolivia and beyond. Twenty-five years after it was first published in English in 1978, the new edition of this classic book includes never-before-translated testimonies gathered in the years just before the book’s translation. Let Me Speak picks up Domitila’s life story from the 1977 hunger strike she organized—a rebellion that was instrumental in bringing down the Banzer dictatorship. It then turns to her subsequent exile in Sweden and work as an internationalist seeking solidarity with the Bolivian people in the early 1980s, during the period of the García Meza dictatorship. It concludes with the formation of the Domitila Mobile School in Cochabamba, where her family had been relocated after the mine closures. As we read, we learn from Domitila’s insights into a range of topics, from U.S. imperialism to the environmental crisis, from the challenges of popular resistance in Latin America, to the kind of political organizing we need—all steeped in a conviction that we can, and must, unite social movements with working-class revolt.