The promise of a better life
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The promise of a better life

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208 pages 2011

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The history of the Bureau County mines from the early 1880s to mid-1920s including the mines of Cherry, Coal Hollow, Dalzell, Ladd, Loceyville/Marquette, Seatonville, Spring Creek and Spring Valley as well as details of the mining industry, the labor unions that formed, and the strikes, suspensions, riots and anarchy that marked the times.

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