Coal Mining in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era

• The hazards of coal mining in the 19th century
• The Avondale Disaster of 1869
• A view of coal mining in 1877
• Machines and a Coal Miner's Work
• The Work of a Coal Miner
• The Overthrow of the Molly Maguires (a lurid 1894 account)
• Stephen Crane, IN THE DEPTHS OF A COAL MINE (from McClure's in 1894)
• The Life of a Coal Miner (1902)
• The Anthracite Strike of 1900
• The Anthracite Strike of 1902
• An Anthracite Miner's Story (1902)
• Among the Coal Miners (an account from Illinois in 1902)
• John Mitchell, A Mine Worker's Life and Aims
• Anthracite Coal Mines and Mining (a description from 1902)
• Anthracite Coal Communities (1904)
• The Boys in the Breakers (1904)
• Mr. Coal's Story (an appeal to end child labor in the mines)

You may find Tales of a Mine Country of interest.

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