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Colorado Mining Stories
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by Caroline, Arlen
Sales Rank: 913230
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List Price: $12.95
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Features
Cover Type: Paperback with 176 pages
Published by: Western Reflections Publishing Co. September 18, 2002
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 1890437743
ISBN 13 Number: 978-1890437749
Book Dimensions:
8.9 x 6 x 0.5 inches
Weighs: 10.4 ounces
Product Description
Colorado Mining Stories is a collection of tales depicting the hazards, heroics and humor of hardrock mining in Colorado. While collecting the stories for her book, Caroline Arlen would hear the same type of contradictions. Most men and the few women who worked the mines would talk about how they loved mining and in their next breath would tell about horrific accidents that happened daily. These miners put their lives on the line, hoping they would not be the next one to die or be maimed in a cave-in, premature explosion or by a falling slab. But mining was a way of life that paid well and created a close community where folks found it necessary and important to look after each other.
About The Author
Caroline Arlen spent two years traveling throughout the country interviewing people who worked in and around the mines. Glimpsing into their lives, Arlen found a breed of individuals who never thought of themselves as heroes or deserving of any special attention. But Arlen knows a good story when she hears it as a result of her experience working for such prestigious magazines as Time, Sports Illustrated and U.S. News & World Report.
Reader Reviews
A good bathroom reader, though most of the narrative has to do with how it was, by some miner that cannot quite recall all of it. The book was prepared from recordings by an intern, interviewing old miners that had a hand in Colorado Mining- mostly in the San Juans. A lot of anecdotal information, horseplay, and the drudgery of working in an ice cold, high-altitude, hole. Of course, one that is not a miner, cannot fully grasp the experience, danger, lore, haunted galleries, and minerals as found underground, in mostly a dark, dank, noisy, stinking work environment. The narrative here would be the same if one were to have been sitting on a barstool in a tavern in Silverton or..., and listening in. interesting but not enough meat.
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