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New York

Between Heaven and Hell

Clive Cussler

Justin Scott

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

After witnessing a terrible coal mining accident, Detective Isaac Bell hunts for the high-level saboteurs he believes are responsible in this new novel from the best-selling co-authors of The Thief and The Spy.

The Striker

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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Florida

Erik Reece

Alabama

A Year in the Vanishing Wilderness Radical Strip Mining and the Devastation of Appalachia

A new form of strip mining has caused a state of emergency for the Appalachian wilderness and the communities that depend on it-a crisis compounded by issues of government neglect, corporate hubris, and class conflict. In this powerful call to arms, Erik Reece chronicles the year he spent witnessing the systematic decimation of a single mountain and offers a landmark defense of a national treasure threatened with extinction.

Lost Mountain

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Oklahoma

Rich Shapero

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Kentucky

The Hope We Seek

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Michigan

Treasure of the world 

Rebecca Harding Davis

A Novel

Life in the Iron Mills is a short story written by Rebecca Harding Davis in 1861, set in the factory world of the nineteenth century. It is one of the earliest American realist works, and is an important text for those who study labor and women's issues.

Life in the Iron Mills or the Korl Woman

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Jonathan D. Rosenblum

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Tennessee

How the Arizona Miners' Strike of 1983 Recast Labor-Management Relations in America

Presents an account of the dramatic and ultimately disastrous 1983 miners strike against the Phelps Dodge company in Arizona, all told against the backdrop of the uneasy relations between the company and the mine-workers' unions going back to 1903. This edition also describes the resurgence of union activism in Silver City, New Mexico, in 1996-97.

Copper Crucible

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Ruth Barnes Moynihan

In this new and enlarged edition the editors have built on an already strong collection with four new accounts. Colorado pioneer Augusta Tabor gives a sense of the heady days as Leadville became a major mining center. Abigail Duniway describes the challenges of life for women in the Pacific Northwest. Effie Wiltbank’s short selection is a reminiscence of her grandmother’s “receet” for washing clothes, a chore that epitomizes the practical skill, determination, and common sense required of so many Western women. Apolinaria Lorenzana offers a rare glimpse of the operations of the mission system while illuminating the perils of living with the acquisitive Americans.

Texas

Women Settlers on the Mining and Ranching Frontier

The genuine creative achievements of nineteenth-century western women have often been obscured by sentimental tributes to their devotion and diligence, while men are praised as pathfinders, entrepreneurs, and community builders. But the nineteen narratives in So Much to Be Done by women of diverse status and background reveal women's involvement in every aspect of settlement. Their part in making hard decisions, producing essential income, and developing new communities was as important as their flexibility, humor, and sense of adventure. This collection describes the experiences of pioneer women responding in individual ways to the challenge of frontier hardships. The letters, diaries, and memoirs presented here offer glimpses of women's courage, physical strength, and independence that were the equal of any man's, even as they also reveal the failures, weaknesses, and tragedies that beset both sexes during the complex settlement process. Women describe their multiple daily tasks, the ingenuity by which they asserted themselves or circumvented patriarchal authority, the networks of relatives and friends who made the survival of both men and women possible. Such information is seldom found in men's narratives. Women's words provide rich veins of new material for social historians.

So Much to Be Done

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Nevada

The History of the Comstock Lode

Francine Rivers

No writing, rips, highlighting or bent page corners. Ahips within 1 business day or less.

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Pennsylvania

A delightful new western romance from the New York Times bestselling author of Redeeming Love New York Times bestselling author Francine Rivers returns to the California frontier in this sweeping, romantic tale of a displaced New England suffragette, a former Union soldier disinherited by his Southern family, and the town they join forces to save. 1875. When Kathryn Walsh arrives in tiny Calvada, a mining town nestled in the Sierra Nevadas, falling in love is the farthest thing from her mind. Banished from Boston by her wealthy stepfather, she has come to claim an inheritance from the uncle she never knew: a defunct newspaper office on a main street overflowing with brothels and saloons, and a seemingly worthless mine. Moved by the oppression of the local miners and their families, Kathryn decides to relaunch her uncle's newspaper--and then finds herself in the middle of a maelstrom, pitted against Calvada's most powerful men. But Kathryn intends to continue to say--and publish--whatever she pleases, especially when she knows she's right. Matthias Beck, owner of a local saloon and hotel, has a special interest in the new lady in town. He instantly recognizes C. T. Walsh's same tenacity in the beautiful and outspoken redhead--and knows all too well how dangerous that family trait can be. While Kathryn may be right about Calvada's problems, her righteousness could also get her killed. But when the handsome hotelier keeps finding himself on the same side of the issues as the opinionated Miss Walsh, Matthias's restless search for purpose becomes all about answering the call of his heart. Everyone may be looking to strike it rich in this lawless boomtown, but it's a love more precious than gold that will ultimately save them all.

The Lady's Mine

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- Hardcover
- In like new condition - has slight shelf and reading wear
- From a Smoke Free Home

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Wyoming

the camp that didn't fail

Searchlight

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Sylvie F. Sommerfield

Determined young Zoe Carrigan travels West, intent on pursuing a dream, but unfortunately for Zoe, three separate, very different men interfere with her plans as each attempts to claim her for his own. Original.

Winter Seasons

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A. H. Ryan

This book is a clean copy with a good spine and binding. The contents and graphics are in good condition. There is minimal wear inside. There is slight wear on the paperback cover. Will package the book carefully. Will ship within hours after your order is in. Thanks for stopping by and please stay safe.

Weekend Gold Miner  F596

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One page is wrinkled on the bottom corner. Looks like it may have gotten wet at one point. It it only one page of the whole book. The rest of the book is in great condition.

Connecticut

Utah

And Other Frontier Tales

A Miner’s Christmas Carol

Carrie Noble Kline

Bill Kovarik

John Rausch

Theresa Burriss

Previously owned.  Minimal edge, cover and corner wear 

Perspectives on the Great West Virgina Mine War

Expanding on the groundbreaking revelations of DEAD RINGERS, this volume is for those who hate the sanitized mush that is being passed off as history in today's classrooms and museums. Now that forced sexual servitude institutionalized in the early coal mining camps has been exposed, it can be regarded as a precursor to the current day domination and assault on entire communities by Big Energy with the complicity of all levels of government.

Truth Be Told

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Ivan Doig

Some very light page edge discoloration (pictured) but that doesn’t reach the pages themselves. 

Vermont

"[A] novel that best expresses the American spirit." -The Chicago Tribune

"If America was a melting pot, Butte seemed to be its boiling point," observes Morrie Morgan, the itinerant teacher and inveterate charmer who stole readers' hearts in The Whistling Season. A decade later, he steps off the train and into the copper mining capital of the world in its jittery 1919 heyday. While the riches of "the Richest Hill on Earth" may elude him, once again a colorful cast of local characters seek him out. Before long, Morrie is caught up in the clash between the ironfisted Anaconda Mining Company, radical "outside agitators," and the beleaguered miners. As tensions build aboveground and below, Morrie finds a unique way to give a voice to those who truly need one, and Ivan Doig proves yet again why he's reigning king of Western fiction.

Work Song

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Mark Taylor

Wear to corners of cover. One page has a dirty spot. Some pages are a little wavy on the corner, but no obvious signs of water damage. 

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Washington

Cabbage Patch Kids

The Cabbage Kids enact a plan to get their kidnapped pets back from the evil Lavendar, Cabbage Jack, and Beau Weasel.

Cabbage Patch Kids The Great Rescue

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New Jersey

Sixteen-year-old Wren MacAvoy works as a coal miner for a domed city where, after 200 years, society is complacent and coal is diminishing until she unwittingly becomes a catalist for a revolution that destroys the dome, which could mean the end of everything.

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Lost Mountain

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Treasure of the world

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Jonathan D. Rosenblum

Copper Crucible

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So Much to Be Done

Grant H. Smith

The History of the Comstock Lode

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Searchlight

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Winter Seasons

A. H. Ryan

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The Lady's Mine

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Sam Davis

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Ivan Doig

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