Mine DisastersThe Real Disaster Is Above Ground: A Mine Fire and Social Conflict
J. Stephen Kroll-Smith , Stephen Robert Couch
ISBN-13: 9780813193298 (paper)
University Press of Kentucky, 1990
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Monongah: The Tragic Story of the 1907 Monongah Mine Disaster, the Worst Industrial Accident in US History
Davitt McAteer
ISBN-13: 9781933202297 (cloth)
West Virginia University Press, 2007
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The West Side Carbondale, Pennsylvania Mine Fire
Kathleen Purcell Munley
ISBN-13: 9781589662124 (paper)
University of Chicago Press, distributed for University of Scranton Press, 2010
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Goodbye Wifes and Daughters
Susan Kushner Resnick 
ISBN-13: 9780803217843 (cloth)
University of Nebraska Press, 2010
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No.9: The 1968 Farmington Mine Disaster
Bonnie E. Stewart
ISBN-13: 9781933202785 (cloth)
West Virginia University Press, November 2011
Return to Top Miners: Labor & ActivismCorridors of Migration: The Odyssey of Mexican Laborers, 1600-1933
Rodolfo F. Acuña
ISBN-13: 9780816528028 (paper)
University of Arizona Press, 2007
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Killing for Coal: America's Deadliest Labor War
Thomas G. Andrews
ISBN-13: 9780674031012 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780674046917 (paper)
Harvard University Press, 2008
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Matewan Before the Massacre
Rebecca J. Bailey
ISBN-13: 9781933202280 (paper)
West Virginia University Press, 2008
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The Miners of Windber: The Struggles of New Immigrants for Unionization, 1890s-1930s
Mildred Allen Beik
ISBN-13: 9780271029900 (paper)
Penn State University Press, 1996
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It is Union and Liberty
Edwin L. Brown, Colin J. Davis, editors
ISBN-13: 9780817309992 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780817310004 (paper)
University of Alabama Press, 1999
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The Navajo People and Uranium Mining
Doug Brugge, Esther Yazzie-Lewis, Timothy Benally
ISBN-13: 9780826337795 (paper)
University of New Mexico Press, 2006
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Voices from the Mountains
Guy and Candie Carawan
ISBN-13: 9780820318820 (paper)
University of Georgia Press, 1996
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Life, Work, and Rebellion in the Coal Fields: The Southern West Virginia Miners, 1880-1922
David A. Corbin
ISBN-13: 9780252008955 (paper)
University of Illinois Press, 1990
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Mother Jones: Raising Cain and Consciousness
Simon Cordery
ISBN-13: 9780826348104 (paper)
University of New Mexico Press, 2010
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Stories from the Mines
Thomas M. Currà, Greg Matkosky
ISBN-13: 9781589660519 (cloth)
University of Chicago Press, distributed for University of Scranton Press, 2006
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John L. Lewis: A Biography
Melvyn Dubofsky, Warren Van Tine
ISBN-13: 9780252012877 (paper)
University of Illinois Press, 1986
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Fighting Back in Appalachia: Transitions of Resistance and Change
Stephen L. Fisher, editor
ISBN-13: 9780877229766 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780877229773 (paper)
Temple University Press, 1993
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Communities in Economic Crisis: Appalachia and the South
John Gaventa, Barbara Ellen Smith and Alex Willingham, editors
ISBN-13: 9780877226499 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780877226505 (paper)
Temple University Press, 1989
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Which Side Are You On?: The Harlan County Coal Miners, 1931-39
John W. Hevener
ISBN-13: 9780252070778 (paper)
University of Illinois Press, 2002
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Challenge Accepted: A Finnish Immigrant Response to Industrial America in Michigan’s Copper Country
Gary Kaunonen
ISBN-13: 9780870138737 (paper)
Michigan State University Press, 2010
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Race, Class, and Power in the Alabama Coalfields, 1908-21
Brian Kelly
ISBN-13: 9780252069338 (paper)
University of Illinois Press, 2001
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The Archaeology of Class War: The Colorado Coalfield Strike of 1913-1914
Karin Larkin, Randall H. McGuire, editors
ISBN-13: 9780870819551 (cloth)
University Press of Colorado, 2010
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Black Coal Miners in America: Race, Class, and Community Conflict 1780-1980
Ronald L. Lewis
ISBN-13: 9780813192741 (paper)
University Press of Kentucky, 1987
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Moving Mountains: How One Woman and Her Community Won Justice from Big Coal
Penny Loeb
ISBN-13: 9780813124414 (cloth)
University Press of Kentucky, 2007
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Industrial Politics and the 1926 Mining Lockout: The Struggle for Dignity
John McIlroy, Alan Campbell, and Keith Gildart, editors
ISBN-13: 9780708321867 (paper)
University of Chicago Press, distributed for University of Wales Press, 2009
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Race and Labor in Western Copper: The Fight for Equality, 1896-1918
Philip J. Mellinger
ISBN-13: 9780816514779 (cloth)
University of Arizona Press, 1995
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From Redstone to Ludlow: John Cleveland Osgood's Struggle against the United Mine Workers of America
F. Darrell Munsell
ISBN-13: 9780870819346 (cloth)
University Press of Colorado, 2009
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Harlan Miners Speak: Report on Terrorism in the Kentucky Coal Fields
National Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners
ISBN-13: 9780813191874 (paper)
University Press of Kentucky, 2008
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Another Civil War: Labor, Capital, and the State in the Anthracite Regions of Pennsylvania, 1840–1868
Grace Palladino
ISBN-13: 9780823225910 (paper)
Fordham University Press, 2006
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Mining for the Nation: The Politics of Chile's Coal Communities from the Popular Front to the Cold War
Judy Pavilack
ISBN-13: 9780271037691 (cloth)
Penn State University Press, 2011
The Next Time We Strike: Labor in Utah’s Coal Fields, 1900-1933
Allan Kent Powell
ISBN-13: 9780874211610 (paper)
Utah State University Press, 1992
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Representation and Rebellion: The Rockefeller Plan at the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, 1914-1942
Jonathan H. Rees
ISBN-13: 9780870819643 (cloth)
University Press of Colorado, 2010
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Thunder in the Mountains: The West Virginia Mine War, 1920–21
Lon Savage
ISBN-13: 9780822954262 (paper)
University of Pittsburgh Press, 1990
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I Sweat the Flavor of Tin: Labor Activism in Early Twentieth-Century Bolivia
Robert Smale
ISBN-13: 9780822961178 (cloth)
University of Pittsburgh Press, 2010
Convicts Coal and Banner Mine
Robert D. Ward, William Warren Rogers, Sr.
ISBN-13: 9780817312138 (paper)
University of Alabama Press, 2002
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Labor Revolt in Alabama: The Great Strike of 1894
Robert D. Ward, William Warren Rogers, Sr.
ISBN-13: 9780817350574 (paper)
University of Alabama Press, 2003
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Everybody Was Black Down There: Race and Industrial Change in the Alabama Coalfields
Robert H. Woodrum
ISBN-13: 9780820327396 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780820328799 (paper)
University of Georgia Press, 2007
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Return to Top Miners & Mining Communities History and Culture
In Images & Literature Miners & Mining Communities: History and Culture The Story of Coal and Iron in Alabama
Ethel Armes
ISBN-13: 9780817356828 (paper)
University of Alabama Press, 2011
Back Talk from Appalachia: Confronting Stereotypes
Dwight B. Billings, Gurney Norman, and Katherine Ledford, editors
ISBN-13: 9780813190013 (paper)
University Press of Kentucky, 1999
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In Pursuit of Gold: Chinese American Miners and Merchants in the American West
Sue Fawn Chung
ISBN-13: 9780252036286 (cloth)
University of Illinois Press, 2011
After the Boom in Tombstone and Jerome, Arizona: Decline in Western Resource Towns
Eric L. Clements
ISBN-13: 9780874175714 (cloth)
University of Nevada Press, 2003
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Auraria: The Story of a Georgia Gold Mining Town
E. Merton Coulter
ISBN-13: 9780820334974 (paper)
University of Georgia Press, 1956 (reissued 2009)
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Do, Die, or Get Along: A Tale of Two Appalachian Towns
Peter Crow
ISBN-13: 9780820328638 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780820328713 (paper)
University of Georgia Press, 2007
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Company Towns in the Americas: Landscape, Power, and Working-Class Communities
Oliver J. Dinius, Angela Vergara, editors
ISBN-13: 9780820333298 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780820336824 (paper)
ISBN eBook: 9780820337555
University of Georgia Press, 2011
Boomtown Saloons: Archaeology and History in Virginia City
Kelly J. Dixon
ISBN-13: 9780874176087 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780874177039 (paper)
University of Nevada Press, 2005
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Nevada’s Twentieth-Century Mining Boom: Tonopah, Goldfield, Ely
Russell R. Elliot, Foreword by Jerome E. Edwards
ISBN-13: 9780874171334 (paper)
University of Nevada Press, 1988
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Old Heart of Nevada: Ghost Towns and Mining Camps of Elko Country
Shawn Hall
ISBN-13: 9780874172959 (paper)
University of Nevada Press, 1998
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Preserving the Glory Days: Ghost Towns and Mining Camps of Nye Country
Shawn Hall
ISBN-13: 9780874173178 (paper)
University of Nevada Press, 1999
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The Silver of the Sierra Madre: John Robinson, Boss Shepherd, and the People of the Canyons
John Mason Hart
ISBN-13: 9780816527045 (cloth)
University of Arizona Press, 2008
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'Licentious Liberty' in a Brazilian Gold-Mining Region
Kathleen J. Higgins
ISBN-13: 9780271032702 (paper)
Penn State University Press, 1999
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Mine Towns: Buildings for Workers in Michigan’s Copper Country
Alison K. Hoagland
ISBN-13: 9780816665662 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780816665679 (paper)
University of Minnesota Press, 2010
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Bisbee ‘17
Robert Houston
ISBN-13: 9780816519392 (paper)
University of Arizona Press, 1999
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North of 53 º: The Wild Days of the Alaska-Yukon Mining Frontier, 1870-1914
William R. Hunt
ISBN-13: 9781602230545 (paper)
University of Alaska Press, 2009
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Treasure Hill: Portrait of a Silver Mining Camp
W. Turrentine Jackson
ISBN-13: 9780874173611 (paper)
University of Nevada Press, 2000
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Comstock Women: The Making of a Mining Community
Ronald M. James, C. Elizabeth Raymond, editors
ISBN-13: 9780874172973 (paper)
University of Nevada Press, 1997
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The Roar and the Silence: A History of Virginia City and the Comstock Lode
Ronald M. James
ISBN-13: 9780874173208 (paper)
University of Nevada Press, 1998
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Treadwell Gold: An Alaska Saga of Riches and Ruin
Sheila Kelly
ISBN-13: 9781602230750 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9781602231184 (paper)
ISBN eBook: 9781602231023
University of Alaska Press, 2010
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Colliers across the Sea: A Comparative Study of Class Formation in Scotland and the American Midwest, 1830-1924
John H. M. Laslett
ISBN-13: 9780252068270 (paper)
University of Illinois Press, 2000
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Welsh Americans: A History of Assimilation in the Coalfields
Ronald L. Lewis
ISBN-13: 9780807832202 (cloth)
University of North Carolina Press, 2008
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Calaveras Gold: The Impact of Mining on a Mother Lode County
Robert H. Limbaugh, Willard P. Fuller
ISBN-13: 9780874175462 (cloth)
University of Nevada Press, 2003
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Coal: A Memoir and Critique
Duane Lockard
ISBN-10: 0813917840 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780813917849 (cloth)
University of Virginia Press, 1998
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The Infamous King of the Comstock: William Sharon and the Gilded Age in the West
Michael J. Makley
ISBN-13: 9780874177701 (cloth)
University of Nevada Press, 2009
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John Mackay: Silver King in the Gilded Age
Michael J. Makley
ISBN-13: 9780874177701 (cloth)
University of Nevada Press, 2009
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Undermining Race: Ethnic Identities in Arizona Copper Camps, 1880-1920
Phylis Cancilla Martinelli
ISBN-13: 9780816527458 (cloth)
University of Arizona Press, 2009
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Race and Homicide in Nineteenth-Century California
Clare V. McKanna
ISBN-13: 9780874175158 (cloth)
University of Nevada Press, 2002
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Pennsylvania Mining Families: The Search for Dignity in the Coalfields
Barry P. Michrina
ISBN-13: 9780813191041 (paper)
ISBN eBook: 9780813128290
University Press of Kentucky, 2004
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Going for Gold: The History of Newmont Mining Corporation
Jack H. Morris
ISBN-13: 9780817316778 (cloth)
ISBN eBook: 9780817384432
University of Alabama Press, 2010
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Mining Cultures: Men, Women, and Leisure in Butte, 1914-41
Mary Murphy
ISBN-13: 9780252065699 (paper)
University of Illinois Press, 1997
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Letters from the Nevada Frontier: Correspondence of Tasker L. Oddie, 1898-1902
Tasker L. Oddie, Edited by William A Douglass and Robert A Nylen
ISBN-13: 9780874175820 (paper)
University of Nevada Press, 2004
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They Say in Harlan County: An Oral History
Alessandro Portelli
ISBN-13: 9780199735686 (cloth)
Oxford University Press, 2010
Making Space on the Western Frontier: Mormons, Miners, and Southern Paiutes
W. Paul Reeve
ISBN-13: 9780252031267 (cloth)
University of Illinois Press, 2007
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Searchlight: The Camp That Didn’t Fail
Harry Reid
ISBN-13: 9780874177534 (paper)
University of Nevada Press, 2008
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Mining in a Medieval Landscape: The Royal Silver Mines of the Tamar Valley
Stephen Rippon, Peter Claughton, and Christopher Smart
ISBN-13: 9780859898287 (paper)
University of Chicago Press, distributed for University of Exeter Press, 2009
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Hard as the Rock Itself: Place and Identity in the American Mining Town
David Robertson
ISBN-13: 9781607320760 (paper)
ISBN eBook: 9781607320685
University Press of Colorado, 2010
San Juan Legacy: Life in the Mining Camps
Duane A. Smith, photographs by John L. Ninnemann
ISBN-13: 9780826346506 (paper)
University of New Mexico Press, 2009
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Song of the Hammer and Drill: The Colorado San Juans, 1860-1914
Duane A. Smith
ISBN-13: 9780870815317 (paper)
University Press of Colorado, 2000
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San Juan Bonanza: Western Colorado's Mining Legacy
Duane A. Smith, photographs by John L. Ninnemann
ISBN-13: 9780826335784 (cloth)
University of New Mexico Press, 2006
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Bodie’s Gold: Tall Tales and True History From a California Mining Town
Marguerite Sprague
ISBN-13: 9780874176285 (paper)
University of Nevada Press, 2005
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Daughters of the Mountain
Suzanne E. Tallichet
ISBN-13: 9780271029047 (paper)
Penn State University Press, 2006
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Castle Valley, America: Hard Land, Hard-won Home
Nancy J. Taniguchi
ISBN-13: 9780874215908 (paper)
ISBN eBook: 9780874215304
Utah State University Press, 2004
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African American Miners and Migrants: The Eastern Kentucky Social Club
Thomas E. Wagner, Phillip J. Obermiller
ISBN-13: 9780252071645 (paper)
University of Illinois Press, 2004
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Appalachia in the Sixties: Decade of Reawakening
David S. Walls, John B. Stephenson
ISBN-13: 9780813101354 (paper)
University Press of Kentucky, 1972
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The Good Times Are All Gone Now: Life, Death, and Rebirth in an Idaho Mining Town
Julie Whitesel Weston
ISBN-13: 9780806140759 (paper)
University of Oklahoma Press, 2009
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The Glory Days in Goldfield, Nevada
Sally Zanjani
ISBN-13: 9780874175202 (cloth)
University of Nevada Press, 2002
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Miners & Mining Communities: In Images & LiteratureThe Lost Gold Mine of Juan Mondragón: A Legend from New Mexico performed by Melaquías Romero
Charles L. Briggs, Julián Josué Vigil
ISBN-13: 9780816509775 (cloth)
University of Arizona Press, 1990
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Writers and Miners: Activism and Imagery in America
David C. Duke
ISBN-13: 9780813122373 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780813193472 (paper)
ISBN eBook: 9780813129600
University Press of Kentucky, 2002
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Changing Mines in America
Peter Goin, C. Elizabeth Raymond
ISBN-13: 9781930066113 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9781930066120 (paper)
University of Chicago Press, distributed for Center for American Places at Columbia College Chicago, 2004
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Images of Appalachian Coalfields
Builder Levy, introduction by Helen Matthews Lewis, foreword by Cornell Capa
ISBN-13: 9780877225881 (cloth)
Temple University Press, 1989
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Anthracite! An Anthology of Coal Region Drama
Philip Mosely, editor
ISBN-13: 9781589661172 (paper)
University of Chicago Press, distributed for University of Scranton Press, 2006
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Wrestle the Mountain
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
ISBN-13: 9780822957904 (paper)
University of Pittsburgh Press, 2003
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Rebels in the Shadows
Robert Reilly
ISBN-13: 9780822953043 (paper)
University of Pittsburgh Press, 2000
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Laughing Whitefish
Robert Traver
ISBN-13: 9781611860146 (paper)
Michigan State University Press, 2011
Morkan’s Quarry: A Novel
Steve Yates
ISBN-13: 9780913785249 (cloth)
University of Arkansas Press, 2010
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Return to Top The Mining Industry General History
Technology & Practice The Mining Industry: General HistoryThe Mining Law of 1872: Past, Politics, and Prospects
Gordon Morris Bakken
ISBN-13: 9780826343567 (cloth)
University of New Mexico Press, 2008
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The Riches Beneath our Feet: How Mining Shaped Britain
Geoff Coyle
ISBN-13: 9780199551293 (cloth)
Oxford University Press, 2010
Coal in Appalachia: An Economic Analysis
Curtis E. Harvey
ISBN-13: 9780813115771 (cloth)
ISBN eBook: 9780813132655
University Press of Kentucky, 1986
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The Pennsylvania Anthracite Coal Industry, 1860-1902
Richard G. Healey
ISBN-13: 9781589661509 (paper)
University of Chicago Press, distributed for University of Scranton Press, 2007
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Copper for America: The United States Copper Industry from Colonial Times to the 1990s
Charles K. Hyde
ISBN-13: 9780816518173 (cloth)
University of Arizona Press, 1988
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Mining in World History
Martin Lynch
ISBN-13: 9781861891730 (paper)
University of Chicago Press, distributed for Reaktion Books, 2004
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The Mechanics of Optimism: Mining Companies, Technology, and the Hot Spring Gold Rush, Montana Territory, 1864-1868
Jeffrey J. Safford
ISBN-13: 9781607321019 (paper)
University Press of Colorado, 2011
Vision and Enterprise: Exploring the History of Phelps Dodge Corporation
Carlos A. Schwantes
ISBN-13: 9780816519439 (cloth)
University of Arizona Press, 2000
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Fire in the Hole: Miners and Managers in the American Coal Industry
Curtis Seltzer
ISBN-13: 9780813115269 (cloth)
University Press of Kentucky, 1985
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The Trail of Gold and Silver: Mining in Colorado 1859-2009
Duane Smith
ISBN-13: 9780870819575 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9781607320753 (paper)
University Press of Colorado, 2009
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Riding the High Wire: Aerial Mine Tramways in the West
Robert A. Trennert
ISBN-13: 9780870816314 (paper)
University Press of Colorado, 2001
From the Ground Up: A History of Mining in Utah
Colleen Whitley, editor
ISBN-13: 9780874216394 (cloth)
ISBN eBook: 9780874215441
Utah State University Press, 2006
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The Diamond Mines of South Africa: Some Account of their Rise and Development
Gardner F. Williams
ISBN-13: 9781108026598 (paper)
Cambridge University Press, 2011
Labour in the South African Gold Mines 1911–1969
Frances Wilson
ISBN-13: 9780521175098 (paper)
Cambridge University Press, 2011
The Mining Industry: Technology & PracticeWhat's a Coal Miner to Do?
Keith Dix
ISBN-13: 9780822985105 (paper)
University of Pittsburgh Press, 1988
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Applied Geophysics in the Search for Minerals
A.S. Eve, D.A. Keys
ISBN-13: 9781107600508 (paper)
Cambridge University Press, 2011
Ores to Metals: The Rocky Mountain Smelting Industry
James Fell
ISBN-13: 9780870819469 (paper)
ISBN eBook: 9780870819681
University Press of Colorado, 2009
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The Missabe Road: The Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railway
Frank A. King
ISBN-13: 9780816640836 (paper)
University of Minnesota Press, 2003
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Mass Destruction: The Men and Giant Mines That Wired America and Scarred thePlanet
Timothy J. LeCain
ISBN-13: 9780813545295 (cloth)
Rutgers University Press, 2009
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Eldorado!: The Archaeology of Gold Mining in the Far North
Catherine Holder Spude, Robin O. Mills, Karl Gurcke, Roderick Sprague, editors
ISBN-13: 9780803210998 (paper)
University of Nebraska Press, December 2011
Engineering Nature: Water, Development, and the Global Spread of American Environmental Expertise
Jessica Teisch
ISBN-13: 9780807834435 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780807871768 (paper)
University of North Carolina Press, 2011
Environmental Engineering in Mines
V.S. Vutukuri, R.D. Lama
ISBN-13: 9780521246057 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780521157391 (paper)
Cambridge University Press, 1986
Return to Top Public Policy, Land Rights, and Environmental Impact Mining, the Environment, and Indigenous Development Conflicts
Saleem H. Ali
ISBN-13: 9780816528790 (paper)
University of Arizona Press, 2003
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Bringing Down the Mountains: The Impact of Mountaintop Removal on Southern West Virginia
Shirley Stewart Burns
ISBN-13: 9781933202174 (paper)
West Virginia University Press, 2007
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Uneven Ground: Appalachia since 1945
Ronald D. Eller
ISBN-13: 9780813125237 (cloth)
University Press of Kentucky, 2008
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Something’s Rising: Appalachians Fighting Mountaintop Removal
Silas House, Jason Howard
ISBN-13: 9780813125466 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780813133836 (paper)
ISBN eBook: 9780813173412
University Press of Kentucky, 2009
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Leadville: The Struggle To Revive An American Town
Gillian Klucas
ISBN-13: 9781559633857 (cloth)
Island Press, 2004
Hawke's Law: The Politics of Mining and Aboriginal Land Rights in Australia
Ronald T. Libby
ISBN-13: 9780271024530 (paper)
Penn State University Press, 1992
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Ducktown Smoke: The Fight over One of the South's Greatest Environmental Disasters
Duncan Maysilles
ISBN-13: 9780807834596 (cloth)
University of North Carolina Press, 2011
Combating Mountaintop Removal: New Directions in the Fight against Big Coal
Bryan T. McNeil
ISBN-13: 9780252036439 (cloth)
University of Illinois Press, November 2011
To Save the Land and People: A History of Opposition to Surface Coalmining in Appalachia
Chad Montrie
ISBN-13: 9780807854358 (paper)
University of North Carolina Press, 2003
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Mercury, Mining, and Empire: The Human and Ecological Cost of Colonial Silver Mining in the Andes
Nicholas A. Robins
ISBN-13: 9780253356512 (cloth)
Indiana University Press, 2011
Removing Mountains: Extracting Nature and Identity in the Appalachian Coalfields
Rebecca R. Scott
ISBN-13: 9780816665990 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780816666003 (paper)
University of Minnesota Press, 2010
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Unconventional Fossil-Based Fuels: Economic and Environmental Trade-Offs
Michael Toman, Aimee E. Curtright, David S. Ortiz, Joel, Darmstadter, Brian Shannon
ISBN-13: 9780833045645 (paper)
RAND Corporation, 2008
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