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The Black Rock That Built America

A Tribute to the Antracite Coal Miners

The Black Rock That Built America
By: Gerald L. McKerns C.C.

ISBN: 1-4257-5300-0 (Trade Paperback 6x9)
ISBN13: 978-1-4257-5300-9 (Trade Paperback 6x9)

ISBN: 1-4257-5305-1 (Trade Hardback 6x9)
ISBN13: 978-1-4257-5305-4 (Trade Hardback 6x9)

Pages : 134
Book Format : Trade Book 6x9
Subject : HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West In

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Trade Paperback 6x9 ($17.84)
Trade Hardback 6x9 ($27.89)

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The Black Rock That Built America explains how, on the backs of thousands of European immigrants, America was transformed from a mostly rural nation into the world’s greatest industrial power. As the nation expanded in the nineteenth century, anthracite coal fueled the making of steel, the building of railroads, the operation of factories, and the heating of homes. This book tells of the struggles these immigrant miners endured while performing the grueling and dangerous work of extracting anthracite coal from the earth in order to earn their place in America.

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