The Coal Miner's Wife: Beyond the Coal Mine, A wife's Journey of Survival

Through twenty-seven years of marriage, Blanche endures the Great Depression, labor strikes that leave the family without income, and the constant terror of sending her husband into the deadly mines each day. She raises ten children is a house without electricity or running water, washing coal—blackened clothes until her hands bleed, rationing every scrap of food, and praying each night that Bill will come home safely.
As America fights World War II and the Korean War, the demand for coal ke...