Anthracite Boot Camp

This is a true story about men struggling in a black underground world as they and their families emerge from a very difficult period of industrial labor unrest and civil economic depression. It is also a story of a father's effort to train his young son to work with the degree of diligence and intensity that the father felt was a necessary foundation for a successful and rewarding life. The story is not about coal mining in coal veins where those seams are deep, thick, and overlain by many...