Hard As the Rock Itself
Subtitle: Place And Identity in the American Mining Town (Mining the American West)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Published: August 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780870818509
Subjects: Mining industry; Social history; Picher; Human Geography; History; United States - State & Local - West; History - U.S.; Oklahoma; History: American; USA; Illinois; Mining; Colorado; Toluca; Coal mines and mining; Cokedale; Mines and mineral resources
Description: "The first intensive analysis of sense of place in American mining towns, [book title] provides rare insight into the struggles and rewards of life in these communities. [author] contends that these communities ... have a strong and enduring sense of place and have even embraced some of the signs of so-called dereliction. [author] documents the history of Toluca, Illinois; Cokedale, Colorado; and Picher, Oklahoma, from the mineral discovery phase through mine closure, telling for the first time how these century-old mining towns have survived and how sense of place has played a vital role."--Book jacket.