Title: The promise of a better life
Description: The history of the Bureau County mines from the early 1880s to mid-1920s including the mines of Cherry, Coal Hollow, Dalzell, Ladd, Loceyville/Marquette, Seatonville, Spring Creek and Spring Valley as well as details of the mining industry, the labor unions that formed, and the strikes, suspensions, riots and anarchy that marked the times.
Subjects: Coal mines and mining, History
Places: United States, Bureau County (Ill.), Bureau County, Illinois