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Growing Up in Coal Country

by Susan Campbell Bartoletti · 1996

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Popularity 15

Describes what life was like, especially for children, in coal mines and mining towns in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Anthracite coal industryChild laborCoal minersCoal mines and miningHistoryImmigrantsJuvenile literaturePennsylvania, historyPennsylvania, juvenile literatureEmigration and immigration