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Overview

One morning in 1943, close to eighty men descended into the Smith coal mine in Bearcreek, Montana. Only three came out alive. “Goodbye wifes and daughters . . .” wrote two of the miners as they died. The story of that tragic day and its aftermath unfolds in this book through the eyes of those wives and daughters—women who lost their husbands, fathers, and sons, livelihoods, neighbors, and homes, yet managed to fight back and persevere.

 

Susan Kushner Resnick has uncovered the story behind all those losses. She chronicles the missteps and questionable ethics of the mine’s managers, who blamed their disregard for safety on the exigencies of World War II; the efforts of an earnest federal mine inspector and the mine union’s president (later a notorious murderer), who tried in vain to make the mine safer; the heroism of the men who battled for nine days to rescue the trapped miners; and the effect the disaster had on the entire mining industry. Resnick illuminates a particular historical tragedy with all its human ramifications while also reminding us that such tragedies caused by corporate greed and indifference are with us to this day.

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"Ms. Resnick writes about a tougher time, of miners who sensed they were in danger but went into the mine anyway, determined to feed their families and keep the coal coming. . . . This story will never be told better."—David Crisp, Billings Outpost

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“Few accounts have ever done justice to the women, families and communities of coal towns, or depicted their character with such clarity as this book does. The heartrending and yet, in the end, inspiring portraits of actual people willing to battle against a callous industry are skillfully rendered.”—Charleston (WV)Gazette

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780803217843
  • Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
  • Publication date: 3/1/2010
  • Pages: 262
  • Sales rank: 849,805
  • Product dimensions: 5.80 (w) x 8.60 (h) x 1.10 (d)

Meet the Author

Susan Kushner Resnick is the author of Sleepless Days: One Woman’s Journey through Postpartum Depression. She has been a journalist for twenty-five years; her work has appeared in The Best American Essays, the New York Times Magazine, Boston Magazine, salon.com, Parents Magazine, and Utne Reader.

Table of Contents

Prologue: The Centennial 1

1 The Romance 7

2 The Inspection 19

3 The Teenagers 30

4 The Union 39

5 The Mice 49

6 The Notebook 55

7 The Explosion 64

8 The Panic 71

9 The Rescuers 79

10 The Travelers 86

11 The Wait 99

12 The Games 111

13 The Beloved 117

14 The Good-byes 127

15 The Grief 138

16 The Clues 148

17 The Exodus 161

18 The Inquest 169

19 The Blame 188

20 The Crash 200

21 The Survivors 207

Notes 219

Bibliography 223

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  • Anonymous

    Posted November 7, 2010

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    Written from the perspective of a woman who not only paints the portrait of the hard working miners, their families, their expectations, and the naivety of putting themselves in harm's way each and every day with only the "company" protecting. Susan Resnick follows through the entire story giving us a glimpse of the pain and suffering along with some heart warming portraits of those strong, brave individuals that picked up the pieces and went on. Resnick's strength is the combination of the history of the community, the sudden disaster, the grime outcome, and balancing it with the social and economic ramifications that wasted a once thriving community that many called home.

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