Poor immigrants and their descendants mined it. Anthracite coal fueled the industrial revolution. in the Lackawanna Valley deep in the coal fields of Pennsylvania. Richard Rousseau, University of Scranton Secret meetings hidden in the mountains, informants, agents, spies. comes across as an authentic record of what must have been in part a result of personal experience, family tradition and the dramatic events of the late 19th century here in the greater Scranton area-a valuable record. ADVANCE PRAISE for MINE A powerful story-something extraordinary in literature.- Historian Howard Zinn.
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