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Crosses of Iron: The Tragic Story of Dawson, New Mexico, and Its Twin Mining Disasters

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Winner of the 2025 Mining History Association Clark Spence Award for the "the best book in mining history published during the previous two years."

Winner of the 2024 Historical Society of New Mexico Gaspar Pérez de Villagrá Award—for outstanding publication in New Mexico or Southwest borderlands history.


In October 1913, 261 miners and two rescuers died when a massive explosion ripped through a mine operated by Phelps, Dodge & Company in Dawson, New Mexico. Ten years later, a second blast ...